written by 4rchibald on 13/01/2015
This is the worst agency I had to sign up with. Ignorant, rude and careless staff, fitting more as estate agents or insurance brokers, but with no intention of providing you with service required. Duplicated job offers. I was interviewed three times during one visit, by perm, temp specialist and their manager.
written by Houghton411 on 09/12/2014
The web site looks very professional ... more than i can say for them emailing jobs off for me to employers or other agencies. Emailed twice about this on separate occasions and asked them to call me on phone number given, they didn't. When i did get email it had no-reply address! useless. Three agencies i chased and they say they had nothing, so who is it at fault????
written by JayleenHull121 on 18/11/2014
I originally signed up for Reed to find work. As I have a great interest in working in an office. They had a course to do at one of their offices for free. I signed up, had to attend an Employment essentials course. Which was basically common sense and had been told by the trainer that I was basically job-ready anyway. I thought if I stuck with it, I would get the course I wanted to do. Went to advisor to sign onto the office course. Even when I asked if it was the right course, advisor said yes. Turned out, yes he had put me on the wrong course. Expressed my discontent at this, at basically wasting my time and wasting my jsa to get here. Not even an apology! Basically got the feeling if I didn't stick with it then they would not care. Advisor seems to forget his clients as he had the done the same to another person and hadn't even told her what her action plan was. Advisor also keeps sending me jobs I am not interested in, even when I expressed that I had certain criteria of jobs. Such as not being able to do apprenticeships due to having a foundation degree. They say they care about you individually but comes across obviously that they just want good numbers. Feels like I am easily forgettable and have to remind them each session who I am/what I'm doing there. I'd say it's good for people who haven't much education/experience. But it is rather slow-paced.
written by jf32123 on 31/10/2012
I used to be a recruiter, and not blowing my own trumpet a damn good one. I was good because I took the time to get to know the clients i'm worked with (their history, their needs, company structure etc). Importantly i also took the time to get to know the candidates i represented for any job. That meant face to face interviews or telephone interviews. Only then could i confidently determine if someone was suitable for the job and could talk to the client in a knowledgeable manner about them. This is unfortunately not my experience of Reed... I'm no longer in recruitment and applied for a job via reed.co.uk, 2 days later I had a call from the Manchester office about the job.. it took all of 8 minutes and when i asked for details about the company, they said "oh they are in manchester, not sure if they have a London office, look at the website" - in fact they are a global company! She then asked me to update my CV if interested, I asked to review a job description as she hadn't told me a thing about the job and she got very defensive...(no doubt because they don't want me to go direct). She did in fairness send me the job description and i duly updated my CV and sent it back. Another 2 days pass and I get a call from another agent trying to talk to me about the same roll, they had no idea who i was and after a "i'll find out and call you back", guess what, i heard nothing back. No response to email or messages... Here's the reason why the majority of recruiters have very poor reputations...they never call you back unless they know you can make them money... ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY They don't care about your career, they're just looking for 20% of your salary as fast as possible so they can get their commission. Clients reluctantly pay because they don't have the time to do it themselves but i'm sure they'd argue paying a £5k fee for an average of half a days work. Here's my advice, if you find out who the company is, withdraw your application (tell them they have not represented you in the manner you expect) and go direct.. the worse they can do is blackball you. They may go after the client but i'm sure they would take the chance if it saves them a fee.
written by on 26/05/2012
HI everyone really need help on this one. I recently got a job with reed doing a data-entry job which was for a mega company. The question is when you registered what happened? Did you get any of the following? -A CONTRACT - SIGN A NON-DISCLOSURE FOR THE JOB/WORK YOU WERE DOING - SIGN A CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT FOR THE JOB YOU WERE DOING Did they ask you in any reald epth about your work history?
written by on 21/05/2012
I have been emailing and calling all week and feel very ignored and almost like giving up with everything! Is my CV not GOOD enough for them? I have even emailed asking if they could explain WHY they are not reply and if it is something on my part then to let me know so I can amend this and...nothing!
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