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Career Management Consultants....To good to be true?

Jimbo

20:21 / 13.07.05

I have made the decision it is now time for me to move to the next step in my career, and have come across a company who offer access to the 'un-advertised job market'.

They take money from the job hunter not the employer. It all sounds great (apart from the fee) and the claims for your worth on the open job market are extremely interesting.

Is this just a sales pitch? I cannot find any info on the web about this company- (apart from their own web site) positive or negative. The company is called "temple reid". Does any one have any experience of them or similar companies. I have reservations about the whole concept, but if it is true it could be an opportunity!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:39 / 13.07.05

They take money from the job hunter not the employer.

Okay, at that point I'm not liking them much.

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:42 / 13.07.05

They sound like insourcers. If you have a reasonably high-paying job, perhaps. What are you looking for?

Fist Fun

21:00 / 13.07.05

It depends what role you are looking for. I imagine this would only apply to senior roles. If you have to pay out a lot of cash I would go the conventional route first.

w1rebaby

21:57 / 13.07.05

Immediate response: they're con artists.

More considered response: they are exceptionally likely to be con artists. I have never heard of a real employment agency, as opposed to a firm that concentrates on getting fees up front from candidates with promises of employment and then ignoring them, that ever charges the employee rather than the employer. I wouldn't go anywhere near anyone who asked me to do that. I suppose that there may be some odd sector of the market where that is considered standard practice but I seriously doubt it.

Tell us a bit more about them, the industry concerned and so on, but I'd put serious money on them being a con-job firm, and working for them would make you an utter bastard.

Pooky Is Just My Pornstar Name

03:28 / 14.07.05

Is this just a sales pitch? I cannot find any info on the web about this company- (apart from their own web site) positive or negative. The company is called "temple reid". Does any one have any experience of them or similar companies. I have reservations about the whole concept, but if it is true it could be an opportunity!

I found two links, neither of which reveal all that much unfortunately:

Link 1.

And

Link 2 - look at the Weekend and Monday Report heading.

The second link is more informative as that it comes from someone's blog. Apparently this guy had two meetings with Temple Reid, though he only provides commentary on the initial meeting.

Ariadne

06:26 / 14.07.05

I'd be very suspicious, Jimbo - even the highest level executive recruitment charges the employer.

It sounds like a rip off, and a rip off that'll make you feel dreadful - I can just imagine them, a few months down the line, telling you that they have never had a candidate so difficult to place, and that basically it's your fault you paid for nothing.

Triplets

06:39 / 14.07.05

Guys, you won't believe this, but I just got this e-mail from a Nigerian prince who's in a spot of bother.

Loomis

08:18 / 14.07.05

What the hell is the unadvertised job market? Con for sure.

Think of it from an employer's point of view. Would you rely on an agency to fill your vacancies who would only be able to furnish you with a small number of applicants because the only people on their books are the handful of people who came up with the cash?

Jimbo

11:50 / 14.07.05

Thank you all for some pearls of wisdom and logical view points.

I have just put down a copy of 'what colour's your parachute' and there is a section in there highlighting all the things to avoid when dealing with a "career management consultant". I have managed to put a tick in nearly every box. I will now get a wide berth and give it to them.

Thanks

Jimbo

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