Comments on: Recruitment agents will search you out http://samhassan.co.uk/2008/02/13/recruitment-agents-will-search-you-out/ A blog about Web, Dev, Design, Fun and Food Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:25:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: big-g http://samhassan.co.uk/2008/02/13/recruitment-agents-will-search-you-out/comment-page-1/#comment-89 big-g Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:58:15 +0000 http://samhassan.co.uk/blog/?p=4#comment-89 I got done big time by an agency posing as head hunters and offering an amazing opportunity to run my own dept. They took my CV and ruthlessly sent it to pretty much anyone in the area I work in, including companies not recruiting, luckily my own firm does not use agencies so weren't known to the agency and did not receive a copy but imagine if they had, it could have been very difficult for me. Not only was this embarrasing but I think it has damaged my potential with a lot of firms by sending out a vague and untailored CV. I got done big time by an agency posing as head hunters and offering an amazing opportunity to run my own dept. They took my CV and ruthlessly sent it to pretty much anyone in the area I work in, including companies not recruiting, luckily my own firm does not use agencies so weren’t known to the agency and did not receive a copy but imagine if they had, it could have been very difficult for me.

Not only was this embarrasing but I think it has damaged my potential with a lot of firms by sending out a vague and untailored CV.

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