10/30 - Might be Sp00ky Monday

I started work for one large corporation in RTP as a Systems Engineer Contract to hire for Kenda Systems - Kenda systems paid me $32K more than the final hire salary at the corporation. I never got that

 

Honestly I've sort of figured that one out, but it's just so funny to see and to think of them as trying super hard and failing.

 

I really miss HR. I was agency-side - staffing, recruiting, maintaining (PRN and perm) - for a couple of nursing agencies for most of my working life. I'd do it again in a heartbeat if there was a chance around here at all (the only nursing agencies are home health, which I try not to touch at all). I'd do a more general agency, especially recruiting, which I love because of the relationships it takes both with workers and clients, but the nearest one is nearly an hour away. Breaks my heart.

And yes, a good agency HR type can really help bend the will of the hiring company toward accepting people they would never have considered before, but you have to have a relationship with that recruiter and they have to have an excellent rapport with the client.

 

It's all sales negotiations between the staffing agency and the corporation, but it's wonky that the company would hire you at lower than your rate you were working for the agency, because I can tell you that they pay the agency a LOT more for your work. For temps that we hired that would make $12/hour, our agency would make $18/hour typically per every hour worked by the temp. So not only did they pay less by hiring you directly, but then they saved even more money by giving you a pay cut.

 

clrbffr

 

Dang it I start to remembering to leave my email alerts on . I just missed a $10 web test for mobile (on validately) on those things only take me 10 minutes tops.

 

I thought it went that way too. I got a great salary from the corp I went to work for but the Kenda Salary was just awesome

 

I feel like homelessness is pretty low bar for adulthood.

 

You can totally do recruiting as a consultant! There's plenty of companies that will take you on as a "contractor" recruiter and are so happy to do so because they don't have to pay you nearly as high as a fee/commission as they would a full-fledged agency. A lot of them will even provide you access to corporate Monster and CareerBuilder accounts at no charge to you. I have a couple of friends who worked at my agency who went on to be pretty successful independent recruiters.

 

Consider it the last BRAGGING;

You paid $101.00 USD
to T Hub

 

But... @Polar Bear donated $103.

 

I'd sorta looked at that a couple of years ago, and meant to look more, but found more scams than I liked so I backed off. It may be something to consider again once The Boy is out of the hospital and life returns to normal around here.

 

I am not him.

 

Exactly.

 

For someone you rebel against a lot, you sure do give him a lot of money.

 

that is what C-SATS said to me

or I said to C-SATS... I am confused.

 

Aw, I'm not familiar with the hospital situation as I'm a bit new around here, but I hope everything works out. I know what you mean about a lot of scams; if you're really interested you could always try reaching out to the agencies that are that hour away and explain to them that you'd be interested in a remote recruiting position. Most agencies worth their salt have plenty of technology available nowadays that there's really no reason a recruiter ever has to be in an office, except for maybe occasional meetings.

 

So tired of these 16 cent PINS screwing with me. They need to die in a fire.