Alexander Mann Recruitment Agency

I was recently looking for work and found many of the online job sites useful, however when you register interest in any of the positions you are requested to e-mail the relevant recruitment agency. Now from experience all such agencies are much of a muchness, and their only interest in you is the amount of commission they can make out of you. This is fair enough as jobseekers do not pay them any fees, it is the employers that pay a fee once an agency has successfully filled a vacancy for them. However, my experience with Alexander Mann left me more than usually annoyed. Like most agencies ... more

My experience with AMS is a negative one. I am typically very careful about the agencies I work with but was forced to work with AMS when the client I was working with was purchased by another company and they mandated all contractors worked via their PSL list for reach AMS was a key agency. I can tell you that AMS presented me with an especially long contract - approx. 70 pages and that care has to be taken to read the contracts as there are some very nasty clauses in there. Also payment terms are not great. You can wait up to 2 months to get paid - if indeed they decide to pay you. There's a ... more

They found my CV online and rang me to say that they got me an interview and told me that out of loads of people and out of a high standard of CV's they choose mine. They gave me the false impression that I would stand a very good chance of getting the job. I didn't get the job and lost my own job when I told work I was being interviewed for this one. I wasn't even sure if the company was real when they first contacted me because what they were saying was too good to be true and they rang me out of the blue. After I found out I didn't get the job they sent me an email saying they would keep me ... more