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Hello, my first thread in a LOOOONNNNG time. Would waste time telling you why I am back in sunny Bristol job hunting, but to cut a long story short, I left university the same weekend I arrived (as I said, long story).
So last week I applied for a job with Barclays Bank on the internet and was told that I'd be screened for the job by meta-morphose. I passed a telephone interview and was told to come to the assessment day. When I got there, there was a room of about 50 of us with no idea what was going on.
Turns out they werean agency that work with the companies to get them in and you need to get on their books to find jobs similar to the ones that I'd applied for. I felt conned as nowhere along the line was I informed that the job I applied for was non-existent and nor was I informed that I was expected to just go on the agency's books.
Wasted a day's holiday from my current job, spent 5 hours in traffic and only to be informed that i wasn't good enough for them anyway.
Surely agencies shouldn't be able to do that? A lot of people there applied for jobs not relating to sales at all. Thank god that I know what I want from this job hunting experience and acted a fool so they wouldn't take me on. Still feel cheated though. Anybody else have any related experiences?
So last week I applied for a job with Barclays Bank on the internet and was told that I'd be screened for the job by meta-morphose. I passed a telephone interview and was told to come to the assessment day. When I got there, there was a room of about 50 of us with no idea what was going on.
Turns out they werean agency that work with the companies to get them in and you need to get on their books to find jobs similar to the ones that I'd applied for. I felt conned as nowhere along the line was I informed that the job I applied for was non-existent and nor was I informed that I was expected to just go on the agency's books.
Wasted a day's holiday from my current job, spent 5 hours in traffic and only to be informed that i wasn't good enough for them anyway.
Surely agencies shouldn't be able to do that? A lot of people there applied for jobs not relating to sales at all. Thank god that I know what I want from this job hunting experience and acted a fool so they wouldn't take me on. Still feel cheated though. Anybody else have any related experiences?
Hi Hippy, nice to hear from you. Sounds wrong that they would do that, yes. Not sure about the legality of it, though. If money changed hands then it certainly would be illegal, though it would still be classed as misleading the public.
Hope you find something else soon. I'm interested to hear the Uni story, all the same...
Hope you find something else soon. I'm interested to hear the Uni story, all the same...
Hello, my first thread in a LOOOONNNNG time. Would waste time telling you why I am back in sunny Bristol job hunting, but to cut a long story short, I left university the same weekend I arrived (as I said, long story).
So last week I applied for a job with Barclays Bank on the internet and was told that I'd be screened for the job by meta-morphose. I passed a telephone interview and was told to come to the assessment day. When I got there, there was a room of about 50 of us with no idea what was going on.
Turns out they werean agency that work with the companies to get them in and you need to get on their books to find jobs similar to the ones that I'd applied for. I felt conned as nowhere along the line was I informed that the job I applied for was non-existent and nor was I informed that I was expected to just go on the agency's books.
Wasted a day's holiday from my current job, spent 5 hours in traffic and only to be informed that i wasn't good enough for them anyway.
Surely agencies shouldn't be able to do that? A lot of people there applied for jobs not relating to sales at all. Thank god that I know what I want from this job hunting experience and acted a fool so they wouldn't take me on. Still feel cheated though. Anybody else have any related experiences?
So last week I applied for a job with Barclays Bank on the internet and was told that I'd be screened for the job by meta-morphose. I passed a telephone interview and was told to come to the assessment day. When I got there, there was a room of about 50 of us with no idea what was going on.
Turns out they werean agency that work with the companies to get them in and you need to get on their books to find jobs similar to the ones that I'd applied for. I felt conned as nowhere along the line was I informed that the job I applied for was non-existent and nor was I informed that I was expected to just go on the agency's books.
Wasted a day's holiday from my current job, spent 5 hours in traffic and only to be informed that i wasn't good enough for them anyway.
Surely agencies shouldn't be able to do that? A lot of people there applied for jobs not relating to sales at all. Thank god that I know what I want from this job hunting experience and acted a fool so they wouldn't take me on. Still feel cheated though. Anybody else have any related experiences?