Aerotek

This actually is a review spanning two different sites. One in Salt Lake, and the other Here. The one in Salt Lake found me a posting at a «Great» company doing insurance processing. The second day I was there the team lead screamed at me and stormed out because I had questions on a system that I had only touched once prior, the day before.
Since coming to Oregon, I contacted Areotek and they sent me on one interview. Said they would get me more information about the position (since none had been sent to me prior to the interview and I was meeting with their onsite recruiter). No contact was made. I reached out. No call back for about two or three weeks. Then someone calls and says they are following up and will «For sure» get back to me the next day. Again this does not happen. Again I leave a message and no follow up even to just say «Hey, they went with another candidate.»
Today I get an email from them, since I mistakenly applied for a job through Career Builder they were posting (I was doing the «These are jobs you might be interested in» click and apply after having applied for a job I was actually wanting. I actually got a letter from them today about how great it was to «Meet with me» and how impressed they were but were pursuing other candidates. Okay… Nice form letter… I never met with anyone about this position. I never talked to anyone about this position.
Not impressed with this company. Highly unprofessional, no follow up, and the job I did go on was just… weird.

I have had an awesome experience with Aerotek. They took the time to get to know me personally, learn what my strengths are, what my interests are, and what characteristics in companies I wanted. Coming out of college, I needed experience in order to kick start my career and Aerotek helped connect with great companies. Kendra Wells and Kelly Cardenas gave me great tips on how prepare for my interviews, which allowed me to get the job I am at right now.
Great company with great recruiters.

I have been registered with this company for many years, and have been assigned exactly ONE position. ONE. And it was NOT a positive experience.
Each time they’ve called, I’ve agreed to meet with them based on the promise that they have the «perfect» position for me.
And every meeting has seen them completely unprepared, and in the middle the interviewer has to go conference with their superior (who they characterize as «partner») just to come back to tell me the position I came in for has been filled.
I started explaining that I didn’t want them to waste my — or their! — time, so were they sure they’d place me (this on subsequent calls). I was repeatedly assured that all would be well.
Not true.
So I asked to be placed on their DO NOT CALL list, and was assured that I would be. But I kept receiving calls.
Finally I just stopped responding.

For those of you who don’t know– The temp business is a business. They take a cut of your pay for their services. O.K. that is all good and fine.
I accept that. I really do. I do not accept being lied to though. Beware! You just may get offered a salary that you will never see. You will be lured in. Then you just may be promised another salary slightly below the first one that you were offered. Well– you probably won’t see that one either. But what you will see is a payrate on your check, that you never accepted.
The whole time I am talking to these people– my bullshit meter is going off. It is almost comical how phony and misleading they are. They even look the identical to every temp agent I’ve ever dealt with. It’s like the Stepford Wives of Career Choices.