So yesterday when I had a whole pile of e-mails in my inbox and I got the following e-mail to my London Girl Geek Dinners e-mail account… Lets just say it annoyed me enough to warrant this blog post!

“A friend of mine hs just realised the clients he is meeting tomorrow require aspx skills, do you know any one with aspx and vb skills who is any good and might be available for some work? Thanks.”

So why did this annoy me so much?  Lets see… first off it’s short, to the point, they couldn’t even be bothered to refer to me by name.  They didn’t apologize for wasting my time and giving less than 12 hours notice.  They expect me to jump and respond as well suggesting that they think their time is more important than mine! They didn’t give the details of who they were sending the info to, just their own private yahoo address, which means they could be anyone including an agency person themselves, and it is so preposterous that I would consider sending details of a contact to an unknown person from an unknown company grrrrr…

If someone actually wants me to do something for them at the very least they need to be considerate, friendly, understanding and identifiable.  I’d love to know what friend put them up to this and what recruitment agency they worked for… That way I’d know what agency NOT to give my CV to!

It’s e-mails like this that do good recruitment agencies a bad name.  If you know someone in your recruitment agency that works like this, stop them doing it RIGHT NOW!!!! And no I won’t be recommending anyone… in case anyone asks…

OK rant over… it’s not often that I get this annoyed by things but back handed recruitment agency tactics are not something I like or tollerate.