Path: utzoo!censor!perle!bob
From: bob@perle.UUCP (Bob Pickles)
Newsgroups: can.jobs
Subject: Employment agencies
Message-ID: <973@perle.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 16:20:53 GMT
Reply-To: bob@perle.UUCP (Bob Pickles)
Distribution: can
Organization: Perle Systems Limited  Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 36

I would like to offer my experiences on letting in
employment agencies into this newsgroup:

  1) Agency posting may not be a real job.

  2) They may give a general posting to get many
     names of people who have certain skills so 
     they can be ready for when a real job comes in.

  3) Posting may be for a job that is already filled
     and they want to get your name. 

  4) Agencies like to compile lists of people and
     sell the lists. Just look at your junk mail.

All of the above items has occured to me. I have
dealt with over a dozen agancies and often been
left waiting months for them to respond with any
interviews after reading about jobs in their
newspaper ads. 

I would like to suggest that if the net should
decide to let them in to use this newsgroup their
be some rules that they are FORCED to adhere to.
For example all postings must be real jobs or
companies that have positions opened and not
already filled.

The last thing I would like to say is that not
all employment agencies do these things.

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