Recruitment in BristolCategory: Business
Article added by: Jon Richards
God smite recruitment agencies! They take a quick look at your CV’s job history, see that you once did a stint in a call centre, ignore the education section where you’ve diligently listed all your Doctorates, and tell you, “We’ve got a brilliant call centre job for you!”
To which my answer is, “I have a bachelor’s and a master’s from prestigious universities in both America and Wales, and you think that what I really, really want to do is explain somebody’s phone bill before repeating for the fiftieth time that day, ‘Thank you for calling Vodafone’?”
Recruitment agencies are, however, getting wary of telling you that you’re applying for a call centre. They’ll tell you the role involves liaising between customers and internal departments, but heaven forefend they admit this will all be by phone.
I once had what seemed like a brainwave (although I was on my fourth Guinness at the time): “If there’s nothing but call centre jobs in Cardiff, I’ll just look for work in Bristol.” Next day, off I tripped with a bag full of CV’s, a merry skip in my stride and the future in my nostrils, to walk along Colston Avenue until I either found a job or ran out of agencies. I struck gold on my very first agency: no less than Royal Sun Alliance, they told me, was interviewing today. Great career. Certainly not a call centre.
Well, it was. The extraordinary thing was that the agency apparently thought that I might not actually walk out of the interview, but just accept the job anyway. Look, Adecco, Reed, or whatever your name is " if somebody really doesn’t want a call centre job, he’s hardly likely to change his mind because you’ve been less than honest about it, surely?
Posted By: Jon Richards
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