tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post8900926296762375848..comments2024-03-28T09:27:00.957+00:00Comments on Legal Recruitment Blog: Equal opportunities and recruitment agenciesJonathan Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11711472001853618516noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36839305.post-52630405223824966492009-05-29T11:53:59.378+01:002009-05-29T11:53:59.378+01:00I totally agree that there are issues of grave con...I totally agree that there are issues of grave concern here. As a lawyer with 10+ yrs post qualification experience, I became seriously suspicious when recently a recruitment agency failed to even forward my CV onto a prospective employer - stating that due to the high number of applications received, they had to adhere 'even more closely to the employer's requirements'. Now, I am not one of those disillusioned sorts who thinks I deserve every job without question but I had carefully ensured that I fulfilled every inch of the advertised criteria before applying as I am in very steady/secure/well paid employment at present (£60,000 pa) and am extremely choosey about where I move onto - especially in these financially challenged times. <br /><br />Thus, I wonder what 'other criteria' (other than that which was advertised) was really being adhered to here? I am thinking about taking this one all the way -hence arriving on this blog.<br /><br />I do not necessarily have a foreign sounding name - my concern is general in nature i.e. why are major organisations/companies in the UK risking a breach of their own equal opportunity policies by placing jobs through recruitment agencies, who, for any reason, may not be representing them properly?<br /><br />Companies/organisations need to be made aware of this - and if they are already aware and complicit - then they need to brought to task about it - openly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com