Recruitment Agencies

[Stumpy Tim]

I can say from probably more experience than most here that average agency usually employs people who went to uni and got a third. They'll tell you that you can screw their girlfriends, their wives and their mothers if they think they can make a bit of cash out of you.

Well that's possibly the biggest loads of bollocks I've read on this thread. Once you have a few years experience a degree counts for very little. I have a 2:1 & a Masters, but my biggest selling point is my experience in the industry

 

[Deleted User X18H]

What type of Insurance are you in CAZ Household, Motor, Life Facualtative, Excess of loss treaty, Quota Share treaty, casuatly clash or arranging retrocessions ??

 

[caz99]

What type of Insurance are you in CAZ Household, Motor, Life Facualtative, Excess of loss treaty, Quota Share treaty, casuatly clash or arranging retrocessions ??

legal expenses. more providing it for commercial disputes/litigation assessign them for insurance and also setting up schemes with solicitors with our insurers. also have lengthy experience for pi and clin neg.

its not actually boring its the more interesting side of the insurance business but i quite fancy broking or something.

 

[caz99]

And also incredibly boring zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Ever thought about re-training young Caz, doing something you are actually going to enjoy long-term?

I beg to differ its actually more exciting than a lot of other specialites namely motor and household.

i assess commercial/insolvency litigation disputes and provide them with legal expenses insurance. very interesting cases we receive and very high profile libel/defamation actions too. i also set up insurance schemes with firms

also used to deal with clin neg and Personal injury. i have a lot of legal knowledge well six years worth but no actualy qualification

 

[bhaexpress]

Well that's possibly the biggest loads of bollocks I've read on this thread. Once you have a few years experience a degree counts for very little. I have a 2:1 & a Masters, but my biggest selling point is my experience in the industry

I was talking from my own experience. There no shorage of IT people like me who would agree with me. Which agency do you work for anyway ?

 

[Skaville]

I was talking from my own experience. There no shorage of IT people like me who would agree with me. Which agency do you work for anyway ?

Yes, but it's a load of nonsense BHA Express. How do you know how the recrtuitment consultants you have been dealing with performed academically? Just huge generalisations based on the assumptions you have made about people. Thank god that someone like you does not work in recruitment! No one would ever get employed!

I used to work for Robert Walters in IT Recruitment. They would not accept anyone that did not have an excellent academic background. Virtually everyone in their head office in The Strand is public school educated. My manager at RW went to Eton, as did his brother who was a Director in the business. They both had excellent degrees. You're talking rubbish.

 

[bhaexpress]

Yes, but it's a load of nonsense BHA Express. How do you know how the recrtuitment consultants you have been dealing with performed academically? Just huge generalisations based on the assumptions you have made about people. Thank god that someone like you does not work in recruitment! No one would ever get employed!

I used to work for Robert Walters in IT Recruitment. They would not accept anyone that did not have an excellent academic background. Virtually everyone in their head office in The Strand is public school educated. My manager at RW went to Eton, as did his brother who was a Director in the business. They both had excellent degrees. You're talking rubbish.

How many agencies have you dealt with personally ? As a former contractor I have dealt with any number. What's more I've never heard of your agency but what would I know ? I mean, I only been in IT for over thirty years. Oh and as a matter of fact I often ask them which uni they went to and they usually tell me what they got.

 

[Skaville]

How many agencies have you dealt with personally ? As a former contractor I have dealt with any number. What's more I've never heard of your agency but what would I know ? I mean, I only been in IT for over thirty years. Oh and as a matter of fact I often ask them which uni they went to and they usually tell me what they got.

I have worked in the industry for five years and worked at two of the largest global recruitment companies. Strangely, no candidate has ever asked me what uni I went to or what grade I got - face it, your making it up to defend a silly, offensive comment you made earlier on. Just retract it and move on.

From the Robert Walters website:

"Robert Walters Plc is one of the world's largest professional recruitment consultancies with 21 offices in 13 countries spanning 5 continents. We specialise in placing candidates on a permanent or contract basis in the following specialities, accountancy and finance, banking, operations, legal, information technology, sales and marketing, human resources, support and administration."

You should give them a go. I thought they were very good and you are unlikely to have to deal with anyone who got third's - I can tell that upsets you.