Evins Personnel

It was a great experience. They found me work within a week and now I have a full-​time job. The staff is friendly, helpful and consistent. I felt that they really care and listened to my preferences. They worked fast to find me assignments. I’m a fan, especially since I had lost interest in temp agencies b/​c of prior bad experiences, it was renewed with Evins.

Short and sweet (well, maybe not so sweet).
If you ever, just one time, get a bad review from an assignment that Evins Temps sent you on, Evins will never call or place you again.
My wife suffered a stroke while up on a ladder and fell to the ground. The paramedics called my cellphone and I had to leave my assignment to go to the ER. I made all the appropriate phone calls as I was driving away. The client was not happy with me leaving but had no choice, and I’m sure they called Evins and bitched.
I never heard from Evins Temporaries again.
You can thank me later.

I have been registered with Evans for about 4 years now. I was pregnant when I applied with them for their services and they called very frequently with job positions. Administration work. I had to turn a few down because of my pregnancy but they were able to place me within a few weeks of having my daughter. Unfortunately that position was cut after 3 months, but Evans placed me right away. I love the company i work for and the hourly pay was always a little more than expected. They are a busy office but its because they are a well known staffing agency within Austin. They have Awesome companies hire them for staffing. Recommended for anyone looking for a job.

The first encounter when I hired Evans to find an employer, was a positive one. It was a Mgt position with a small business. The employer paid the fee. The next time I sought Evans service, it was a disaster. Do not know what has happened during that time frame. A waste of time. They would call you and tell you to hang out nearby their office, then nothing would happen. A subsequent try, and they never called back. The staff member would not even answer the client’s calls!

Seems like they’re better with newer recruiters and more jobs and such. Hopefully I get something asap.

Ok, I can understand asking for 3 references, but they want a total of 9?! I felt pressured by them to provide my friends/​coworkers as references. REALLY?! What makes them THINK that I want to disclose that kind of information to them?! And then the pressure to provide a phone number to my previous employer even though I don’t have it NOR do I want them contacting them?! No thank you, I will seek assistance in finding a job ELSEWHERE!

A waste of my time. I applied for an internal position only to have them change the position halfway through the hiring process; from an hourly clerical position to a sales, commission position. They put me through several personality /​behavioral tests which were exhausting and quite frankly inappropriate: one of the many questions I vividly recall asked if I would feel comfortable joining a nudist colony. They also put me through timed tests assessing mathematical skills I felt were beyond the scope of the position. Of course it didn’t matter to them that there were many people talking in the background making it difficult to concentrate; not to mention the antiquated timer that gave off a loud ticking sound. After the tenth test; I finally just gave up and didn’t complete it; we’re talking about four hours worth of these crazy, intrusive, irrelevant and ancient tests. Good luck to anyone interested in a position here; they’ll be sure to put you through the ringer.

What a waste of time! I spent about 3 hours filling out an application, interviewing and taking tests (typing, MS Word, etc) at the Evins office. The office does not have a professional feel to it. I have called several times to follow up and though the recruiter states she will call back, never does. The application asks for so much personal information that I wonder if they are doing something else with the information bc they are not using it to look for jobs.

Years ago I was a temp with Evins and it went well enough, although there was an occasional delay with my getting paid they did offer training on Office applications like Excel and Word with a little test at the end that was very useful to me at the time. But in these modern times the game has changed and I must say… Danger! Stay away! A close friend of mine interviewed and was hired to work in the actual Evins offices during 2010. As soon as that person was eligible for benefits and commissions they were terminated for a very small infraction of an unwritten/​unpublished company policy. When hired the woman who owns the company said «I know all the tricks! You can’t pull one on me!» boy she wasn’t kidding, chewing up and spitting out employees is a poor business practice. If this is how they treat their own staff imagine how well they will treat you.

I dealt with Evins over the summer when I had a break from school, but this is not my first temp rodeo. I did it about ten years ago through Burnett Personnel and had a better experience then. The appointment time is crap, you take all sorts of little tests if you’re looking for an admin position, and then you sit for about 20 minutes until a staffer talks to you for about 10 minutes. My big issue is that the positions available had wonky hours (aka not the usual 8 – 5 gig) and they were particularly low-​paying. Being that this was the middle of the summer, I’m hoping that this is not representative of what they usually have going on. Also, I did most of the communication — they seem really busy and aren’t usually available on the first phone call. Since they do get a chunk of my money, I would like to see a little more effort on their part. Maybe update the computer systems that they test with.

I went in to see them about a month ago because they have a human resources division. Well, I do feel that this was a waste of my time. I’m figuring they are more of an industrial branch because when I went in the lobby was filled with lower income workers and some children. The staff member I spoke to was nice, but in four weeks they have not had any work for me. They don’t call me, I call them. I am giving up on them getting me work.

I totally agree with Cody. I like the people I worked with, and was sent quickly on 2 interviews, but neither of them were anything I was wanting. Just like Cody, I knew not to keep all my eggs in the Evins basket, so I was using another temp agency at the same time, which got me a good job much more quickly. Whew!

In my journey to find some work while I was in between jobs I found myself at Evins Personnel. I walked in, had a quick interview with a consultant, and then was sent off to an interview with in an hour of walking in the door. I was pretty impressed by their speedy service! After my interview with the company, I quickly realized (as did the company I interviewed with) that it wasn’t a great fit. I thought it was no big deal, because on my first vist Evins got me an interview, they would surely get me another.
That was the last time I would ever hear from Evins Personnel. I called back eventually and the lady that had helped me secure an interview had left (or she was fired). I guess in the shuffle of things I was somehow forgotten. If you are looking for some temp work to help you out while inbetween jobs then I would suggest visiting Evins, but don’t put all your eggs in that basket. Evins staff is overworked, and there was always about 20 people waiting in the lobby each time I visited. The one thing I learned was important while looking for temp work was to have as many agencies working for you as possible… that way its not too big of a deal when one agency forgets about you.