On 20/09/2012 09:39 PM, Stephen wrote:
> On 20/09/2012 9:25 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> The thing is that you don't want to be put in for the same job by two
>>> different agencies. That way the client will discount both applications.
>>
>> Our HR person concurs. (And she claims to have worked in hiring, so...)
>
> I have personal experience of that. So I am very careful.
> If I have applied for a job and a similar one comes up. I insist that
> the agency tells me who the client is before they put me in for it.

Really, the HR person's input is why I'm scaling back on applications. 
She says that if one agency gets a big pile of applications from the 
same person, all for totally different jobs, it tends to make them 
reconsider whether this person is worth dealing with.

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