atw: Re: "the exponential job game" and agencies

> This was the last time I bothered to respond
> to an ad with with
> this agency as they were clearly discriminating.  I
> can't name them of
> course, but I was in Melbourne at the time.

I must be naive but why not?

> 
> I think it would be a nice idea to share information
> about known good
> and known discriminatory agencies - but I don't know
> how we can do it
> without running some kind of legal risk?  

Agreed, good idea.  I personally couldn't give a toss
if I upset some agency that had treated me
poorly/unjustly etc.  As long as my comment was fair
and I could be bothered to tell all and sundry about
it.  

Perhaps if named agencies started to get really bad
publicity through channels like this one it might have
an impact (though I doubt it).

I wouldn't worry about the lawyers.

> Any ideas?
>  Is this something
> else we should be collating knowledge about so that
> we can improve our
> position?  We could at least list the known good
> agencies without
> running any risk.
> 
> ck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erisa Linsky [mailto:slinka@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 4:28 PM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Re: Another "rates" query "the
> exponential job game"
> 
> 
> I dont think that would happen very often.
> The agents are trying to put up several "best"
> candidates for every
> position
> on their books.   The same position  is lodged with
> usually about 4 to 6
> different competing agencies.   It is possible, but
> rare, that agents
> within
> the same agency will compete against each other.
> If they haven't got tons of good candidates on their
> files, (and
> sometimes even if they do)  they will advertise. The
> agents may be just
> as desperate as us, going flat out, working unpaid
> overtime trying to get a placement!   They cant
> spend much time
> rewriting
> CV's.
> Recently I counted 13 agents phoning and inviting me
> to apply for ONE
> Govt job.  That's a record for me.  Later, the job
> was cancelled,
> ostensibly because of a staffing freeze on that Govt
> department.  (the
> ATO) All this activity increases the moneyflow, 
> though it's simply the
> resources used up by more people competing harder
> for fewer possible
> outcomes. The Government can theoretically increase
> GDP by giving the
> same job to more agents.  However, does the GST on
> the wasted resources
> exceed the income tax
> loss thus generated?   
> ..............Unlikely.........
> Was it a market test?    Was it a fraud?
> 
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