Recruitment Consultant or Car Salesmen. Which are worse?

Having returned to Blighty recently and this time with a visa that enables me to work, I have entered the world of job hunting. 

What has surprised me is the hit and miss attitudes of recruitment consultants.

There are good ones. 

I know a few personally and they would kill me if I said they all were bad, so I have to say thank you to those that know what customer service actually is and have the honesty and integrity that makes a good recruitment consultant.  

But others... are downright rude, arrogant and possibly way to full of Generation Y's (a big sorry to the Gen Y's that I know !). 

There is now one global agency I will never ever deal with, and if I'm on the other foot I will never accept any candidates from them.

I also have established a rule that if someone doesn't return my call and blatantly ignores me that I will follow up until I get a response just to piss them off.

Going back to the good recruitment consultants.... 

In the post yesterday I received a surprise. A book from the agency Reed. I hadn't requested it nor was it expected but it was a pleasant surprise to receive something that wasn't a bill. It also shows the care factor that this company has for those candidates it represents.  Perhaps a few other agencies could take a leaf out of their book!

So what do I think in terms of whether the recruitment consultant is worse than the car salesmen... I actually think they fall into the same bucket. If you're about to delve into the realm of job hunting in Blighty then prepare yourself.

And meanwhile the job hunting continues...