What came first?

curleyted · 12-02-2009, 02:58 PM

...the contractor or the recruitment agent?

ShortStraw · 12-02-2009, 03:21 PM

Surely you needed an agent to place the contractor?

Months_man · 12-02-2009, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortStraw

Surely you needed an agent to place the contractor?

but why would there be an agent already operating if there were no contractors?

RedSquirrel · 12-02-2009, 04:25 PM

It's irrelevant, they're both chancers. it's a bit like saying what came first the chancer or the chancer?

curleyted · 12-02-2009, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortStraw

Surely you needed an agent to place the contractor?

But without a contractor (and no business requirement to utilise a short-term contract) why would you need an agent?

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Originally Posted by Months_man

but why would there be an agent already operating if there were no contractors?

My point exactly!

On the other hand, you couldn't just have a load of contractors knocking around with no roles!

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Originally Posted by RedSquirrel

It's irrelevant, they're both chancers. it's a bit like saying what came first the chancer or the chancer?

I'm a chancer maybe, but I know of much worse agents! (Sorry agents!)

The SMG · 12-02-2009, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by curleyted

But without a contractor (and no business requirement to utilise a short-term contract) why would you need an agent?

My point exactly!

On the other hand, you couldn't just have a load of contractors knocking around with no roles!

I'm a chancer maybe, but I know of much worse agents! (Sorry agents!)

Recruitment agents do the job for me, never had a real problem with any of them....

SMG

curleyted · 13-02-2009, 10:22 AM

I've met some good ones but also some dodgy ones. I'm off to rate some....

MG · 14-02-2009, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by curleyted

But without a contractor (and no business requirement to utilise a short-term contract) why would you need an agent?

Us agents quite clearly created the business requirement by selling the idea of a more flexible workforce to companies

The SMG · 15-02-2009, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MG

Us agents quite clearly created the business requirement by selling the idea of a more flexible workforce to companies

Absolute rubbish!

zara_blackdog · 02-04-2009, 01:37 PM

How long to you lot think Recruitment Agencies have been around for in one form or another?

The first employment agency in the United States was opened by Fred Winslow who opened Engineering Agency in 1893 in the US.

They were around long before highly skilled/highly paid contract staff, when no perm. staff were called temps.

It is todays market/technology that created the need for contract/feelance staff.

Therefore, the agents came first.