Brook Street - Recruiment Agency

Brook Street - Recruiment Agency

I recently read a relatively negative review of Brook Street (or simply BS as it is more commonly known) recruitment agency by LucieS1984. After reading about her experiences I decided I should give mine in contrast. BS are a national recruitment agency and with 55 locations across ... Read review

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Pro's and Con's of Temping.

Advantages: Flexibiltiy. Better rates of pay. Less responsibility. More variety.
Disadvantages: Some resentment on placement. Non-refund of petrol/police check costs. Office Politics and dissorganisation.

...a relatively negative review of Brook Street (or simply BS as it is more commonly known) recruitment agency by Lucie_S1984. After reading about her experiences I decided I should give mine in contrast.

BS are a national recruitment agency and with 55 locations across the country you can find them on most high streets. I have been working for BS Social Care on a Part-time basis while I am studying for my self-funded PhD in Newcastle ...
...information at:

Brook Street Bureau PLC
Clarence House
134 Hatfield Road
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 4JB
Tel: 01727 848292

Summary.
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I have given Brook Street Social Care four stars. They lose a star as they are often unorganised and sometimes there is a distinct lack of communication between staff members in the office. They also lose out because they ... more

nickyturnill 05.09.2005 (05.09.2005)
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Bother with Brook Street - Nope!

Advantages: Easy & Quick Registration, Pleasant Staff!
Disadvantages: Delay in Payment, Jobs aren't Great!

...really appeal to me! Brook Street was the first agency I registered with, well it was the first agency I intended to register with but when I turned up there I was told I needed an appointment and to come back at a later date! Brook Street has over 140 branches in the UK and has been going for over 55 years now so it's quite a well known agency that can boast experience. It's now actually owned by Manpower Inc which is an agency that operates worldwide ...
...I found myself back at Brook Street, with my CV and two forms of identification (this is now a necessary requirement for any agency). I was greeted by a friendly guy who then took me through the registration process… ** The Process ** First things firsts, I was given a form to fill in which was 2 A4 sides and asked me basic details such as my name, DOB, address, next of kin, NI number, etc. on the first side. Moving onto the second side things ...

Lucie_S1984 20.08.2005 · Read full review
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How many words a minute can you do

Advantages: I find they have quite a lot of work, rates of pay are not bad and you know exactly what you are getting
Disadvantages: temping isn't for everybody

...periods in my life) and Brook Street was the first Agency that I went back to. Let me take you through the registering process. First of all you call in (most of the time you don't need an appointment). You will be seen by a friendly Recruitment Officer (always female in Coventry). You can tell them what sort of work you are after and they will take a look at your CV, so it is a good idea to take one along with you. They can offer you advice on ...
...can do, and to inform Brook Street beforehand. I think you get some sort of extra cover to work longer hours. I think this refers to the warehouse/driving side of placements more than office positions. You give them your tax and bank details (you will be paid every week, one week in arrears)so long as you return your timesheet by the following Monday morning. Their computers will match you up to any suitable jobs they have available, and if you ...

anjib 26.09.2001 · Read full review
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Temping - Up Your Street?

Advantages: Friendly staff, actually gave me work (unlike some temp agencies)
Disadvantages: Took some time to call me with work - not great for students wanting holiday work, they'd be back at uni! Or for anyone who needs money quickly.!

...to look for another agency. Brook Street is obviously a national chain, readers might have heard of them. I registered with the Brighton branch, there is one in Haywards Heath as well. I felt like working in Brighton, although it isn't the closest town for me to get to. It is manageable though, a whole 15 minutes by train. The consultants did seem reluctant to believe that I could mange this arduous journey. I had to convince them I was willing ...
...again, not something unique to Brook Street. I got a call a week or so later with a one day assignment, surprisingly, for a local council. This involved reception work. It turned out to be answering the phone, and being a general office dogsbody - photocopying, mailing and entering data in spreadsheets - the boring stuff no-one wants to do. It was work, I left at 5 p.m. No problem. This is another tendency of agencies. They give you a 1- or 2 - ...

Seagreen 21.08.2005 · Read full review
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Recruitment agencies

Advantages: Employers prefer them
Disadvantages: They lie

I have tried most of them in my time, having had several periods of unemployment, and I cannot say I've ever encountered one I could trust. They all come at you as the best, most caring, compassionate answer to your job-hunting prayers, and they are completely free to boot. Which ought to start alarm-bells ringing in these money-grubbing times. Of course they're free - to you, because you, the job-seeker (as we are expected to refer to ourselves ...
...and quite heavily, for your services, whereas you are paid at the minimum of - what is it now, following the latest Brownian orgasm of glad-handouts : £4.20 an hour? Agencies charge an average of £7.50 for you. Which most employers would rather pay than take you on full-time at £7 : because they can dump a temp in a moment, whereas there is all that tedious form-filling to do if they drop a full-time employee. But back to the honesty bit : our local ...

wordswort 17.03.2001 · Read full review
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Not only and agency

Advantages: Great welcome, always happy to help, always only a call away, always there and on the case to find you work asap.
Disadvantages: none

...out of all of them Brook Street have been the best, although I never got a placement through them the consultant I had was always trying his hardest to find me a joband whenever he arranged any interviews for me he always got me to come in so he could give me some interview advice and kind of interviewed me himself and gave me some feed back and really prepared me for my interviews. No other agency has gone this far for me. They all give you the ...
...is to leave it to the agencies. Sometimes they can get you a job with top companies which you may not even find in the papers so register with all agencies and most importantly register with Brook Street. If anyone is job hunting who reads this best of luck. ...

coolchanty 03.08.2001 · Read full review
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