Recruitment agents
 

These days the recruitment agents famous reply to inquiries regarding jobs which advertise as needing pilots ASAP
We are currently in discussions with .........Airlines for......
> ....... positions.
> The key terms are still to be finalised but will be similar to the
> terms below
What is going on ? are all these jobs online just to atract the monthly fee for registering to their sites.Please send your feedback regarding the Aviation recruitment agents .Pilots should not tolerate false adds or bad contracts.

Recruitment Agents - a reply
 

Johnman,

Sadly I have to agree with you, all to often recruitment agencies act with little or no regard to the needs of jobseekers. I cannot/will not attempt to justify the actions of inexperienced recruiters. I will however say that as I understand it it is against REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation, recruitments governing body) guidelines to advertise spurious vacancies. If you believe that you have been misled by an agency you should report them to the REC!

If when you call an agency in direct response to an advert the reply is "We are currently in discussions with .........Airlines for....... positions. The key terms are still to be finalised but will be similar to the terms below" Then I would suggest you politely inform the agency that you do not wish to continue with your application and post a message on here 'naming and shaming' these cowboys.

RR - the REC is a trade association only, with limited (and no legal) powers. The government should police the industry under the Employment Agencies Act, but does little/nothing except worry about gangmasters.

I've been recruiting for 25 years, had one visit from the govt. inspector (when we had to have annual licences, pre-about 1995) and nothing since. I'm not a member of REC, either. But I stay well within the law, and am only an agency in name. I'm not in the aviation sector, however.

just don't pay a fee to register on any web site.
all the jobs are announced on flight international or directly on agencies website.
easy, isn't it ?

Thanks , Richard . Whats the normal way of reporting to REC , do you have the email address ?

Wasinc 737 Capts.
 

WASINC. Beware these folks, basically fee collectors, no support. And now the big perk to obtain 737. PIC's...You don't have to pay 45.00 USD to list.

Stay clear...TB

WASINC has kept their word, no lies from this broker