First Recruitment Services

When I returned from Sweden I decided to switch up my career and turn towards office work. Armed with my CV I gave these guys a go. I was not particularly impressed.
Having a BA in art history and coming off the back of running my own business I would have thought that getting some menial office position would have been a breeze. Not so for first recruitment. They said that they wouldn’t really have anything suitable except a monkey filing job for a 16 year old at 12k a year.
By now I had given my details and although I walked out unimpressed, I was still pestered for about two months by the occasional call to see if I was still looking. Initially I was responding positively until they continued to offer jobs that just weren’t worth my time. Eventually, I changed phones and funnily didn’t think to give them the new number.

My experience with First Recruitment was very much a mixed bag. On the one hand they did land me a solid temping position (for which I won temp of month… they spelled my name wrong on the certificate I might add) that months later turned into a permanent job.
However they basically harassed me with phone calls and my not answering did not seem to deter them. My then girlfriend had also signed up with First Recruitment and they even called her looking for me. I found that to be a bit much.