How to make best use of the Recruitment Agencies here?

Esse85

What has worked for you?

Do you have to constantly get onto them? Ring them every few days etc?

Is it worth calling in with your cv in a suit etc?

or

Do you just mail them, sit back and wait by the phone?

Pisco Sour

Esse85 wrote: »

What has worked for you?

Do you have to constantly get onto them? Ring them every few days etc?

Is it worth calling in with your cv in a suit etc?

or

Do you just mail them, sit back and wait by the phone?

They are a frustrating lot. Most people who work for agencies are just bluffers and spoofers.

Best thing is to apply for jobs on seek that are listed by the agency. There'a a 50% chance that this particular job isn't real but at least they will have your CV then. I've found that they are much quicker to contact you when you send them your CV through a job application on seek than just emailing them your CV.

Tony Sopranoe

I think you'll have to harass them yourself, call into them with your cv in hand, dress like your attending an interview, make a good impression and make follow up phone calls.

hussey

Honestly - call in with CV in hand and e-mail it to them

Agencies change your CV before they send it out (they will delete all contact info from it) as they want the company to contact them.

If they have a softcopy they can edit it - a hard copy they have to convert it to 'agency CV'

But yeah most of them are just out for a quick buck and are spoofers

Wild Rover

Get on LinkedIn, its huge in Oz. Lots of recruiters looking for candidates on it