Paige Personnel Services

I would definitely consider all other options before resorting to Paige Personnel’s Downers Grove office. Maybe their other locations are better, but this is two hours of my life that I wish I could get back somehow…
I was contacted by the main office after I had responded to a job posting on Careerbuilder. Since I live in the suburbs, I asked if I could have the meeting at their Downers Grove office. They said that would be fine, so I set up an appointment. The office was nice, no problems with that. I spent about a half hour filling out their application, which was pretty much me re-​writing my resume onto their application format. They said I had to do it this way, even thought they wanted a copy of my resume as well. Not a big deal, I guess «rules is rules».
I finally met with one of their recruiters/​consultants, and she took one look at my work experience and then acted like she knew exactly what I did on a day to day basis in my job just by looking at my job title. She then told me that it’s highly unlikely that I will be able to find any work outside of the industry that I am currently working in, because all of my work experience is in that specific industry (way to be super closed minded, no need to think outside the box with your job?). She then told me that I’m way underpaid for the position that I’m in now. Great, so, basically, I’m underpaid and she isn’t going to lift a finger to help get me hired with one of her clients who may pay me better and give her a commission. During the entire meeting, I was fighting the urge to just get up and leave as this lady had my self esteem at a level zero in no time. That was about it, other than me taking their administrative tests, on which I scored pretty well overall. At the end of the meeting, I got the standard «we’ll call you if anything comes up».
Oh, and I am sure you’re wondering how this whole process took two hours? It’s because this lady kept taking phone call after phone call while I was sitting at her desk for the interview. Very professional.
I don’t plan on following up with this place, other than to tell them that they need to close my file as I no longer want them to consider me for placement with any of their companies.