Kforce

Honestly don’t think I have been so insulted and angry after an interview in my entire life. The recruiter in charge of permanent positions basically stated that any person with a «gap» in their employment was slacking off and lounging by the pool. Absolutely insane assumption with the number of people unemployed or underemployed these days.
The temp guy was nice but for some reason the temporary staff believe you must call/​email/​text/​carrier pigeon until you reach a live person. I can’t tell you how many times I could NOT pick up the phone because I was in an interview and I was watching message after message pile up. You have nothing better to do than to send out all these messages? Absurd waste of time for all parties — just NOT effective.
Furthermore, I set up several interviews with employers who stated that they would not work with recruiters and KFORCE basically dropped me for not notifying them every single time I had an interview and handing over all contact info so they can hound the hiring company? Somehow pissing off a potential employer doesn’t sound like a wise move and certainly won’t lead to a job. If these recruiters can’t figure out that hard ball tactics no longer work — they should choose another profession.

What a bunch of losers. Low quality and dishonest.
They have bad jobs and I would not want to work
for a company that was so hard up that they hired
these guys to find employees.
While at their office I heard one of their managers screaming
over the phone at a corporate client. Don’t think that client
will be using Kforce ever again… way to go on customer
service, guys!
The job possibility they said they had was a bait and switch —
I found a way to politely cut the interview short and escaped!
This is the Burlington office, by the way.

I had the misfortune of running into yet another crappy recruiting firm; this time in the form of Kforce and a recruiter named Peter.
I should have been suspicious as soon as I spoke with said recruiter. From the boastful monologue he gave me when I was first contacted, you would have thought he had placed every manager and executive in a 50 mile radius at their current positions. He might have even invented the Internet for all I know…
Anyway, I had to go through the standard bs and go to Kforce’s office so they could tell the client they had «pre-​screened» the candidates. I was then set up on an interview, didn’t like the company and its paltry benefits/​low salary, and had to listen to a diatribe about unrealistic expectations and how I should take the job because it would insult his client. Luckily, I never heard from Peter again once I officially declined the offer.
Suffice to say, I will never work with this recruiter/​company again. If you do happen to cross paths with them, I strongly encourage you to look out for yourself and your best interests because the recruiters at Kforce surely won’t.