Thread: Agencies

Any of you managing to get work out of agencies?

Originally Posted by Dan

Any of you managing to get work out of agencies?

I guess by the silence that people aren't getting work from agencies

Sparx,

The forum is barley a couple of days old.

Give it time mate

We have seen agencies advertising work for "Polish Electricians" and others offering £6 per hour for a fully qualified, tooled up electrician with their own transport, insurance etc. I would be better off selling my tools and getting a job at burger king.

A fair few of my contracts come via the agency route.
Mind you they're paying considerably more than £6 per hour! I wouldn't even set my alarm clock for that..

So it can work then. Good luck to the polish if they can work for that but I hear through the grapevine many are heading back to poland now due to our ecomonic climate. I say the grapevine, I think it was BBC news about 2 months ago.

Fair play if it's working for you mate, keep at it.

agencies dont work im on loads of books never get a call think they only use their favorites

Originally Posted by Dan

So it can work then. Good luck to the polish if they can work for that but I hear through the grapevine many are heading back to poland now due to our ecomonic climate. I say the grapevine, I think it was BBC news about 2 months ago.

Fair play if it's working for you mate, keep at it.

Do'nt hold your breath,here they come again


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-UK-jobs.html


I consider myself very lucky not to have ever had to work through Agencies
There should be alot more regulation covering them,they seem to take advantage at every turn if they can
A friend went to one last week,plumbing 20 years,to sign on thier books for work they promise they have but I bet will never materialise
He walks in the room and a little teenage girl comes in takes his details
name ,address,normal stuff
Then you get to experiance,gets out his cv and sites he has worked on but no

questions

can you solder copper pipe
do you know how to put a w/c in
have you used plastic push fit
can you repair a dripping tap
He is in shock but as he answers she just ticks the boxs

The it comes .can you fit a slider,what says my mate,can you fit a slider she repeats,my mate looks confused,she looks at him and says,we will put no then,he leans over and looks,you mean cylinder,no I think its a slider,says the girl,maybe you are thinking of something else

He just got up and walked out


Must have missed the question about
can you supply a van and all tools for £6.00 an hour

As mentioned above, you do sometimes need to be in favour with the agency and indeed the end user! In my case a huge multi National food manufacturing blue chip company..
I would have to do something seriously wrong to get chucked out. Oh and my rate is considerably higher than £6ph.

I'm registered with a few agencies and the work seems to be picking up where i live in and around the Swindon/Wiltshire area.Got my present job thru an agency(ELECTROSTAFF)and have also been offered another job starting in a couple of weeks from(VITAL).