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A subsidiary of The Boeing Company > -----Original Message----- > From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of > Christine.BirtleyKent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, 24 June 2004 4:54 PM > To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: atw: Re: 2 x contract opportunities in Melbourne > > > Oh dear - I can't stay quiet on this one. Pegasus is one of the most > supportive recruiters I have worked through - including Anna > personally. > They are thoroughly professional and I would recommend them to anyone. > If anyone is to blame for this situation it is ourselves. We are too > divided and lazy to establish and enforce professional > standards, we have > allowed incompetents to enter into the industry and > 'juniorise' our role, > and we are failing to educate our clients effectively. We > cannot expect > recruiters to do what we have failed to do - that is - > educate the market > place. > > ck > > > > > > "Brian Clarke" <brianclarke01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent by: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 24/06/2004 04:33 PM > Please respond to austechwriter > > > To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > cc: <donald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, (bcc: Christine > Birtley-Kent/AUS/ANZ/CCA) > Subject: atw: Re: 2 x contract opportunities > in Melbourne > > > > > Hello Donald, > My 13 year old daughter uses statements like your opener. > > My problem, if it is mine, is that I would like a little more honesty > instead of > the gouging behaviour. In one recent job, I was told there > was 6 weeks of > work and to quote a rate. I finished the work in 4 days. If I > had known > that in > advance, I would have charged much higher. The agent should know the > quantum of work - the contractor usually gets dribbles of > info before the > quotation is demanded. Very one-sided. > > If the recruiter gets feedback like mine and chooses not to > advertise, > aren't > we better off without such shonks?? If recruiters learn from such > feedback and choose to improve their service, aren't we better off?? > > Brian. > <snip> > > > And your problem is? > <snip> > If the recruiter gets feedback like this, they will simply > stop posting > jobs on the list. > > Donald Halley > ************************************************** > To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to > austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to > austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the > Subject field. > > To unsubscribe, send a message to > austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. > > To search the austechwriter archives, go to > www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter > > To contact the list administrator, send a message to > austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************************************************** > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > ************************************************** > To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to > austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to > austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the > Subject field. > > To unsubscribe, send a message to > austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the > Subject field. > > To search the austechwriter archives, go to > www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter > > To contact the list administrator, send a message to > austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************************************************** ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. 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