Have I damaged my chances of finding a job after sending this email?

2/10.

You guarantee it? So in your mind the first thing a little local recruitment company is going to do upon receiving this email is go out of their way to warn Adecco and Manpower to benefit their main competitors? Smart - this is how all successful businesses operate.

It's not uncommon for rival companies to talk.ie Hitler sat in front of many opposition officials before the 2nd world war started. Not a war but they'll still do that if they feel someone's being nasty to them just to get one back... You are right that it may not happen but I think there's enough people on the planet that they need to worry about numbers.

a 2.1 and you speak like a spoilt teenager/brat? Yes I believe you. Millions wouldn't though?!?

Come on guys, you really believe this guy has any kind of graduate qualification? He probably doesn't even have a levels ffs!

Are you joking? The amount of total morons with degrees these days is mind boggling. Like seriously you get people that you wouldn't trust to feed themselves with degrees in all kinds of crap.

And what degree do you have, just to be honest? include subject, grade, year and university thanks. Or don't tease if you can't back up>?

I'm sorry, is your implication that I don't have a degree?

1) What relevance does that have to the conversation? Whether I have a degree or not has no bearing on the subject?
2) What would me naming a subject (knowing the f'in obvious), grade (10), year (3000) and university (Atlantis) prove?
3) Wouldn't take you long in my post history to realise what a moronic statement you're making.... but for what it's worth... yes I have a degree, no it wasn't particularly hard and no having a degree does not generically imply intelligence, aptitude, ability, work ethic or anything else.

OK?

I'm sorry, is your implication that I don't have a degree?

1) What relevance does that have to the conversation? Whether I have a degree or not has no bearing on the subject?
2) What would me naming a subject (knowing the f'in obvious), grade (10), year (3000) and university (Atlantis) prove?
3) Wouldn't take you long in my post history to realise what a moronic statement you're making.... but for what it's worth... yes I have a degree, no it wasn't particularly hard and no having a degree does not generically imply intelligence, aptitude, ability, work ethic or anything else.

OK?

That's an extremely arrogant and insulting email and there's more chance of Elvis Presley coming back to life than getting the job

Having recently graduated university, I am presently seeking employment and last week applied for a job with an agency. They got back to me a few hours later and asked me to attend an interview at their offices. When I got there though, all I was asked to do was show my passport as proof of my right to work in the UK, and fill in some basic form that basically said 'what skills do you have?'.

When the agency lady called me in to the office, I thought we would be discussing the role I had applied for, but she seemed clueless to say the least and not remotely interested in putting me forward for the role, and was just like 'oh we won't struggle to get you a job, we'll be in touch'. I made a point of saying that I had gone there about that particular role, but again she didn't seem much about it and just reiterated they'd be in touch.

I was angry because the agency was 22 miles away and must have cost at least 8 quid in petrol to do the round trip. To top it off, quelle surprise, a week later I've heard nothing.

Last night I'd had a couple of glasses of wine and sent them the following email to the lady who invited me to the interview:

'Dear Jackie, Thank you very much for wasting my time and petrol last week in inviting me to an 'interview' with your tinpot agency (you're hardly Adecco or Manpower are you, let's not delude ourselves). As you will have seen, I have a 2:1 degree in an academic subject from a very good university, whereas I bet I could count the number of GCSEs your entire office hold on one hand. Applications of my calibre of an increasingly rare variety and it is so disheartening to see that I have still been treated with apathy.

Your office had the atmosphere of a morgue and I can imagine you're hardly inundated with companies seeking your services (after the way you treat excellent candidates though, I can see why. If you were to phone me tomorrow and offer me that job, I would say 'not a chance, poopy-pants'.

Yours sincerely

(x)'.

On reflection, I know that I shouldn't have sent it as it was a bit off, but I was angry because I have a fabulous CV and would excel in any role I am offered. Would this agency though be able to scupper my chances with any other jobs?

I'll be sending them neither. The only thing they'd be getting from me is a turd through their letterbox.

I'm not interested in that joke of an agency, only whether they would prevent me from getting external agency jobs.


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£8 in petrol to drive 22 miles?? What car do you drive?...a military tank!

I hate to burst your overinflated egotistical bubble but most recruitment consultants are educated to degree level and many degrees actually don't mean an awful lot to some employers as actual experience.
Getting the experience is the hard part - finding an employer who will give you an opportunity to prove gain experience.
In my opinion the agency acted perfectly fine, they registered you straightaway so they can put you forward for a job, but they have to send your cv to the company filling the position and only they will decide (not the agency) if you get an interview.
It appears that your 2.1 and big head that likely struggled to pass through their door wasn't good enough to afford you the knowledge of how recruitment works.
Next time ask questions regarding the process.
What was your degree in? Pure Maths, Astrophysics, aeronautical engineering, sheep shearing?

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That doesn't answer the question. I'm sorry but when you ask someone for their degree title, grade year and university, and they reply with 'yes i have one', it doesn't inspire confidence does it?!?

Also the reason why i'm asking, but i don't know what mickey mouse university you did your degree at, but
intelligence, aptitude, ability, work ethic

these are exactly the qualities that my degree not just taught, but required. As did everyone else at my university.

So unless you are an a grade student, who walked uni like you did you a levels, or went to a very poor university which doesn't require excellence from their students, or went thirty years ago, when the standards were generally lower. Or as i suspect, are just making it up.

If you still think you have a degree, tell me these details. Any one with a real one, would be prepared to reveal this information. The reason why you don't is because you can't, because you don't have one, or you think you went to 'Atlantis in the year 3000'.

I can see the point was lost on you.... I have a degree -> it has ZERO relevance to whether degrees in general are a good indicator of ability etc -> therefore I declined your question as it's irrelevant.

If I was lying I would simply make something up. For example, I could claim to be a "2i graduate in joint honours Sociology with Theatre Studies degree Derby university (UK) class of 2016" - maybe I spent the last 3 years sitting next to you in class?



I see I've touched a nerve. Come back to me after you've spent a couple years in the working world and tell me if you still feel the same way. Once you've worked with people from top universities that don't have a clue, you'll realise how a degree in itself really isn't a great indicator of anything.