What a shame I cannot in the slightest compliment Devire of Wrocław. I write as the friend of someone who’s very talented but is an older applicant (late forties) and who went for an interview to Devire’s Wroclaw branch to apply for a job that the agency was advertising for a third party client (a non-Polish company opening an office in Wroclaw).
Why do consultants at agencies like Devire make promises that they have no intention of keeping, waste good people’s time, and raise their hopes for nothing? Is it a charade to cover the fact that there are few openings for older people in Wroclaw and many cities in Poland except for those with specialist IT skills or happy stacking shelves in supermarkets?
After the interview, instead of being frank and saying to my friend “I’ll be in touch if the client chooses to take your application forward, is there any other roles you would also like to be considered for?” the consultant teased with nonsense such as “Just give me 2 weeks because the client is not in the country at the moment. I’ll let you know by the end of this month (October) one way or the other (if it’s a yes or no for the next stage of the recruitment process.”
Surprise surprise … from that day to this, the Devire consultant never made contact again. Not an email. Not a call. Not a word. Silence. Nothing. Why? Because there are very few jobs for older people unless they want to work for low wages or have some very, very specialist management experience or software development and similar IT skills.
It is bad enough that older people are overlooked and put on the scrapheap, but the charade of making promises you don’t keep and treating candidates in a very poor and “just a number” manner is a reflection of a flaw in the branch’s management, a flaw in the consultant’s character, and a strong indication key branch staff need retraining or should join the ranks of of the unemployed themselves for a taste of their own shameful medicine.
–Reply to Owner’s reply of 02.10.2018: I’ll certainly let the former applicant know of your response. The branch concerned was in Wrocław. Neither branch nor client made any contact with the rejected applicant at any time, to this day. The applicant secured employment elsewhere and via their own efforts after a lengthy and rigorous recruitment process with a government department a few months later. Unless your branch has only a trickle of similar openings, its approach almost certainly led to the loss of the agency placement fee from a future employer after what would have otherwise been an inevitably successful association had the branch given this person a chance instead of abruptly cutting off.
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