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for Blue Arrow

Rating Summary based on 10 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		3
  • 4 Stars
    		2
  • 3 Stars
    		2
  • 2 Stars
    		1
  • 1 Star
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  • Customer service
  • Flexibility of office hours
  • Office personnel/Consultants
  • Quality/Suitability of job offers
  		• 3.0
  		• 3.4
  		• 3.8
  		• 3.3
  		• 3.3

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  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Jarvissa

    2 Stars Number 4373839938 on the list of great agencies 12/07/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Free training (silver service etc), Flexible, Immediate start

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Staff can be downright dumb, wages low as 4.85 an hour

    As a soon to be graduate with no imminent job lined up, off to temping agency, Blue Arrow it was! I live in Manchester, and having no office skills or experience to speak of, decided to hit the catering branch of this agency. I walked in, was kept waiting an interminably long time (but hey, that's okay - I'd keep my prospective employees waiting while I sat chatting to my friend at the next desk too...) "Suzy" eventually calls me over, and she's actually fairly nice. Has me fill in a plethora of standardised forms (name, address, qualifications, work experience etc) and photocopies my passport ... more
  • 17 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Mclbee

    4 Stars Blue Arrow's service 08/08/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Helpful, friendly and fast service

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None at the moment

    I recently went to see a Blue Arrow recruitment company . When I went in, a man greeted me and I asked me to take a seat at the lobby. Just about 3 minutes after that, a lady consultant came up to me and asked me about how she could help me. I didn't even need to walk up , but she came and sat next to me. How nice (sounds too good to be true, right?). So she asked to see my CV and took a copy of it. I told her about my job options and that I was open to either temping or permanent roles. She told me to come in the next day to discuss a bit more and to register which would take some time. The ... more
  • 8 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    richardjmeek

    5 Stars Worth a Try - IT got me out of a hole 03/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Flexible

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Loer wages

    Blue arrow in my experience are a very good recruitment agency, I have experience only with the liverpool branch though. I first went to blue arrow after a string af very short term positions on of which is now my chosen career. I approached blue arrow regarding my desire to gain experience within the IT industry. Blue arrow were completely honest with me and stated that they did not usually deal with IT positions. They took my details and had a informal chat about my skill set. I left thinking they wouldnt be able to get anything for me but within 2 days they were on the phone saying they had ... more
  • 4 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    saxon

    3 Stars Mixed Feelings 16/11/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Big client base, well known agency

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Seems you have to be lucky

    With Blue Arrow, it seems, your experience mainly depends on where you sign up with them, which could mean that it's up to the staff. The first time I worked for Blue Arrow was in Edinburgh in 1996. I was temping for them and had no lack of work whatsoever from day one. Since I just moved to Scotland from Germany then, I was quite desperate for money (the exchange rate DM/£ was a joke), I rold them I'd do as many hours as they could give me. And they sure gave me enough - I worked and average of about 50hrs. a week. After a few weeks I wanted a break - no problem there either. So I took a ... more
  • 7 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    fna2007

    5 Stars Careless Staff 19/12/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Staff wouldnt know what you done in your timesheet so add hours

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Staff dont care dont ring you up on first days to see how you doing

    Blue Arrow A year back when i was in the need of a job my two friends had gone through this agency to get into places.Blue Arrow once you join them if you are looking for temporary work will take your CV and in some cases like mine put you on a data entry test. Blue Arrow once i registred with them said they would be in touch, they always seem to have positions up outside their shop saying urgent but they never seem to contact everyone as those same positions seem to be there for months! Blue Arrow seem to have a lot of jobs with poor pair and the jobs are quite often not the best jobs around ... more
  • 16 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    lovepiercing

    4 Stars I want a job 24/06/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages don't need qualification

    Disadvantages Disadvantages need to have good conatc with the manager

    I am French. When I arrived last year in Cambridge, I needed to work. Then, I decided to work as a temp so as to study at the same time. It was really easy to find a job. When I came at the office, they immediately gave me a job for the next day. regularly, they called me to give me a job, each friday. If I wanted, I could ask by email to have a job. I worked as waitress in several college in Cambridge. I also do washing up and some cleaning. Jobs I was given weren't to bad and wages were good. I appreciate that payment are made weekly. Concerning the staff of Blue Arrow, you have to have a ... more
  • 1 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Gemimathecat

    3 Stars Good agency clueless staff 30/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Full time and part time work available, friendly staff

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Employers often don't recognise your true skills

    I have actually done quite alot of temping work and found that Blue Arrow actually paid quite well. However I did find many of the recruitment staff very friendly but a bit clueless when it came to recognition of qualifications and skills. Unless they had been to college themselves they often did not recognise my qualifications or did not place me in jobs where I could gain valuable training, which would have been both a benefit to me and to them. Some of the jobs I was placed in were quite boring and full time staff were often rude and inconsiderate. I found many people view temps literally ... more
  • 5 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Jimmy12345

    5 Stars Blue Arrow and bluearrow.co.uk make sense 29/07/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages They have a very user friendly website

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Didn't have the job I was looking for

    I recently decided to look for a new job so I started by trying a few websites out. I ended up at bluearrow.co.uk and found it to be most useful. I could do an instant job search straight from the homepage (unlike Adecco or Manpower) and found a few jobs of interest. It was very easy to apply for these jobs online too. What was good also, was I saw that the jobs were being advertised by my local branch in Newbury, so I emailed them too. The staff at the branch seemed very nice, in particular my consultant helped me decide the direction I really wanted to look in. Unfortunately I didn't find ... more
  • 2 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    robbostew

    1 Star Agencies and Time Management. 19/11/2003
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Time Wasted

    I have contacted Blue Arrow on several occasions by email and visited a London branch in Holborn. I have had no feed back from any of these contacts! i just wish potential employers, agencies in particular would give some feedback, they may not like my CV but that is their problem, i have used my CV in the past successfully to find work using the 'direct' approach and cutting out the Middle Man. Agencies are only good for short term temporary work in my opinion and should be avoided for all other requirements. Blue Arrow has too many candidates and not enough work by the look of it, as do most ... more
  • 0 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 0 mackeylacky

    Member since 06/04/2012

    Reviews written: 1

    1 Star Blue Arrow in a nut shell 06/04/2012
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Want some quick money. Great ppl you meet at work placement.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages They rip you off, ain't got my final weeks wage yet.

    Fantastic recruitment process, slow in the head Staff, rip you off when it come to your final weeks wage.I worked in an office position, in the East Midlands, found the recruitment process challenging, the qualifications on offer weren't bad, but couldn't help but wonder, why did I need them, as I al ready had qualifications that far exceeded the marks on offer. The Blue Arrow recruitment team were not bright, seem to be quiet slow when I needed to know things, whenever they had a problem, I was always there for them, answering calls for jobs right away, never turned down a job, but contantly ... more
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