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AEROTEK DENVER LIED TO ME!
Good deal!!! I'm glad you fired your recruiter.
Aerotek can't be full of ***. Aerotek doesn't breath, eat, sleep, think or care.
Aerotek is a company but the people have the ability to be full of *** or not.
Some of the people are full of *** and some really care about you as a person. But Aerotek, just like the Government is an inanimate organization not to be confused with an animate organism; capable of giving a ***.
I went to Aerotek in Denver to apply for a job several weeks ago. The Aerotek recruiter said I would be perfect for the job opening and sent me to an interview where upon completion of the interview the HR person said I was "hired." Aerotek had me come in to complete the paperwork for the job and then said I would start on a specific date and the recruiter wold call me back with the time to report and where.
The recruiter never called me back! I called the Aerotek recruiter dozens of times but the recruiter never answered her phone nor returned my calls. I went to Aerotek Denver's office twice and was told the recruiter was not in the office at the time though I saw her there myself! She was hiding from me!
The receptionist then told me I had not pay some fees for employment to Aerotek. I told her there are no fees! Aerotek said they do not charge fees!
Aerotek has never returned my calls or told me what is going on.
Is this some employment scam? Is Aerotek trying to extort money from me?
Aerotek of indianapolis lied to me.
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I've told my story over and over again. What I really should be doing is getting my resume out...
I've got a stellar resume, lots of awards, worked for one of the premier Fortune 10 companies for most of my career, wonderful appraisals, etc., etc..
In spite of my outstanding record, I was let go from my Government job a year ago, when the agency I was working for came under a lot of fire for alleged scandals. Congress cut the budget by about a third. I felt really depressed about my situation. I had loved my job, was good at it (according to all my appraisals).
In three and a half years, I had won several formal awards, including a deputy commissioner award. After this debacle, I was eager to move from D.C. back to the West coast, where all of my relatives are.
Enter stage left a small placement firm.
They placed me at Farmers Insurance in a C2H situation, telling me, at the interview, which was more like a recruiting call than an interview, that I could probably expect to be made a permanent employee after six months, at the end of my term. It really sounded too good to be true, and I now realize it was too good to be true.
What is it about me that I fall for every scam in the book? So I went to work for Farmers.
I thought that Farmers was on the up and up. The job was right up my alley, lots of fun. I received kudos from both Farmers' management and the consulting firm. All along, I was told by the consulting firm that I was "on track" to being offered a permanent job with Farmers at the end of my six months.
My performance was stellar. My manager at Farmers stated much the same thing, several times avowing that he intended to make me a permanent employee. I worked really hard, giving everything I had to the job. I received nothing but praise for my work, both in writing and verbally, from both management and my coworkers.
Coworkers kept reiterating what management had been saying all along: I could expect an offer. I even bought some new clothes I felt would fit in better with the Farmers culture than the clothes I wore at the Government Agency. Then, disaster. About two weeks ago, one month before the end of my six month term, the consulting company told me I could not expect an offer because there was a "hiring freeze." Yeah, right.
a quick google of "scam" and "contract to hire" brings up a lot of information about "hiring freezes." Like the sucker I am, I was played. However, Farmers was extending my contract by another six months!!!! yahoo!!! This made me feel great!
I had been quite a success!!!! I asked the consulting company if this was the kind of "hiring freeze" that would resolve itself. The consulting company said no, it wasn't. Hmmm....this sounds kind of fishy.
A hiring freeze that won't resolve itself? By the way, Farmers is no nirvana. I cannot recommend working for them, especially now. Either the current set of employees are just burned out, or just like to treat contracts as if they are second-class citizens, but the environment is worse than what I found at the Government.
The person I was supposed to be back up to was relatively good about training me, but others at Farmers were not as helpful. One person I was supposed to be working with even refused to talk to me, resulting in disaster for the project. My manager said that he had chewed the guy out on more than one occasion for refusing to help others, but there was no change in his behavior. This actually is quite common.
Quite probably, contractors are second class citizens, and the Farmers employees think it a waste of time help. (Which it is.) I wish I'd never taken the C2H job. It was a horrible mistake. I feel like a total failure.
In the back of my mind, I will always wonder what I did to make Farmers ultimately reject me as a permanent employee. Or, as is my other thought, the C2H was just a scam, the odds were slim to none for getting hired, as evidenced by the number of contractors working for Farmers who have only been there for one to two years; they were C2H, and they are simply dangling as perpetual temps. Both the consulting firm and Farmers kept telling me that I would get hired, then nothing. I can see what the consulting firm gets out of the situation, a stream of temps for which they get paid buko bucks, but I don't have a clue as to what Farmers gets, because everyone has to be trained on their very complicated systems, then they are let go or kept on as temps.
Training in IT is a considerable investment. According to my manager, I have a great attitude and great technical skills, but the training is very intensive. Every week for the past five months, the consulting company kept abjuring me to settle down and put down roots. I did buy a car, and now I wish I hadn't because it was expensive, and I may want to go back to D.C., where one doesn't need a car.
I'm glad, however, that I didn't sign a lease. I feel devastated, as if I somehow messed up or offended my manager's manager who made the ultimate decision not to hire me. Maybe I laughed when I thought he was making a joke, maybe he doesn't like my wardrobe, or choice of car. Who knows?
My manager did tell me that "I was his secret weapon...I was doing all the work for the person I was backup to but my manager was not going to give me any credit...the business was going to see that the person I was helping was suddenly producing..." And, indeed, my manager's manager is suddenly praising the person I've been helping. The whole situation is highly discouraging, and I would have expected more from Farmers. At this point, I don't feel as if I can trust them. Their behavior is, at best, extremely unethical.
I guess if I want to live on the West coast, I should change my profession to that of recruiting.
If I did what the consulting company has done, I'd be afraid of getting into trouble and losing my license.
Still waiting on 'promised' job no phone calls, nothing
Aerotek Staffing in VA
Aerotek gave me false hope.
PLEASE come forward so that we can help put a stop to this activity. You can email me at co_unemployment@***.com or call 720-270-****. PLEASE let me know if you are willing to tell your story to a reporter - your identity can remain anonymous.
Aerotek,what a joke!!
Scott Barish of Aerotek—Frederick, MD
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I got a job through aerotek. i had no problems interviewing and i was hired on by one of the companies aerotek represents.
The problems started when i received my first paycheck.
They were paying me less than what i had agreed upon. I brought this to the attention of my recruiter and the company i was working with. Even though they all knew what was going on it took them an entire month to fix my rate issue. At that point i wasn't paid any of the back pay that i had missed out on (it was several hundred dollars).
I should have quit then but i figured it was just an innocent mistake. Now i stopped receiving a paycheck all together, i've called aerotek non-stop and they told me they were working on it. I worked for 3 weeks without pay and then let the company i was contracted with know that i could no longer work there because of nonpayment. (they notified me that all of my hours had been reported to aerotek as usual) It took Aerotek an entire month to "re-cut" one check as they put it, they then blamed all of my pay problems on the US mail.
I'm still waiting on the rest of my pay and now i have an open case with the colorado department of labor. If you want to be paid for the work you do, steer clear of Aerotek.
These guys lure you in, and try to set up with jobs, that no one wants!!!! Once you decline the job they automatically stop responding.
I told her exactly what I was looking for, yet she kept pushing other areas I didn't want. Your better off finding a job by yourself!!!!
FYI, these guys really have no formal training, for the majority of the recruiters, it's their first job out of college. You may have a good experience with some, a bad one with others.
Their biggest fault is their level of consistency. This is a for profit organization, it is in the recruiter's best interest to satisfy their customer, not you. Their recruiter attrition retention rate is extremely high.
On behalf of someone who once represented the Aerotek name, I apologize. Odds are their former recruiters/sales staff despise the company more than you do.
I have been run around by them as well. I am currently contracted by them.
I had a recruiter that took a month plus to give me the date to start. She found me a job a hour + away from me when I had specifically discussed where I could or couldn't work. Was told well just take this job while I find you another one. I had not heard from her for over a month.
Calling, emailing etc. found out she no longer worked there. I never received an email or phone call letting me know or even telling me who my new contact was. Come to find out what she had told me isn't their policy.
Once you are placed you are placed. Finally got my new contact and have tried several times to contact him an have only received one email in the past two months. Now I've been getting paid every Wednesday since June and suddenly my paycheck isn't here this morning. I called to see what was going on.
Was told well you should budget for Fridays.
Um excuse me why don't you admit you guys messed up and we won't get it Til Friday! I find this place very irresponsible!
These guys are gutless clowns. I too was told everything looked great after a first interview, and then a second interview.
Then...just like the rest of these people, couldnt get them on the phone. They dodged my phone calls and ignored my messages. What a joke.
If Joe or Ty from aerotek calls you...RUN the other way. Theyll only waste your time.
Lol gutless clown
PLEASE come forward so that we can help put a stop to this activity. You can email me at co_unemployment@***.com or call 720-270-****. PLEASE let me know if you are willing to tell your story to a reporter - your identity can remain anonymous.
I've had no problems at all, got great attention from the Aerotek recruiter and was hired. Started last week, and love it.
Almost all of my coworkers started there with Aerotek and were hired by the company after a few months, if they were good employees, that is. And no, I'm not an Aerotek employee, just someone who had the qualifications and interviewing skills to get a job.
Another "new hire" here quit the old job, showed up to start and sent home cuz the client not ready. ?
On hold here still by my contact. What the *** is going on?
if he was a creeper and a stalker they would have called the cops.