I don't think people are less ecstatic about it. I think it's matured. It's
less a field of College kids with no life outside the workplace and dot
coms, with free flowing jolt and skittles. And like Damien said, some of us
have no families and lives outside work, which imo is healthy. I'd rather
A quick question for any recruitment agents on this
list(or anyone else who
knows).
Twice in the passed year I've started a dialog with a
recruitment agent,
only for them to go quite and not tell me that I didn't
get an interview.
How hard would it be for them to have sent a quick email
Companies I can understand. But agents?
If they can take my email address and send automated emails for other
potential jobs, why can't they do the same with rejections?
In my eyes it doesn't do their already tarnished reputations any good.
I read a piece in the BCS (British Computer Society)
I've had that happen too. I don't deal with them anymore if I can avoid it.
Agents now-a-days seem to think we (developers, DBAs, whatever it is they're
looking for) are not people. I've had one go quiet for months. then email me
again not remembering our previous contact. I had another ask me the
Out of interest, does anyone know what percentage the agency takes from/adds
to the rate?
I know of one guy who wanted to charge the end client nearly 300% of the
rate. That can't be normal can it?
-Original Message-
From: John Wilker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 January 2006 00:46
I'm not a recruiter, but from what I can gather...
If you're consulting through a firm, they are marking up at least 100%,
if not more. 300% does not surprise me.
w/ full time stuff, it's usually a percentage of your first year salary,
which I suspect is at least 50%.
They'll never
