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It seems to me on first glance that your rating parameters don't cover enough. A company could be quite prompt in paying yet deficient in every other area. Recruiters seem to be in two different camps: those that will submit a resume regardless of qualifications and those who will not submit at all if you don't have one of the pieces of 'alphabet soup' listed as a requirement even though you can obviously do the job. The best agencies are the ones who will fight to get you an interview regardless of some marginal deficiency on the requirement. The job duties almost never match the description, and most recruiters are clueless as to what the software even does that they are saying is the reason you can't be submitted. Almost all of my discussions about what a piece of software does have been with people who were totally clueless about it. Some of these people solicited me and then displayed total ignorance of the job and couldn't be educated in the slightest about it. You might include a category rating the agency's knowledge of the technical environment and the company they are referring to; most don't have a clue. Also most recruiters will never get back to you if they don't want to submit you, they just leave you hanging. You are really just sending resumes into a black box without knowing what or who is reviewing them. Also I was recently forced to sign a contract giving the agency 'injunctive relief' in case of a dispute, meaning they would not have to prove a case in a trial but would immediately be awarded a judgement. This should be illegal and may be, as I've signed another contract that the employer later told me was unenforceable but which they required for hiring anyway. Possibly you should include a parameter for this 'injunctive relief' phenomenon alone (an arbitration clause also comes to mind, since both are asking the contractor to sign away their rights in the court system) to bring it to light for discussion and let contractors know what they might be getting into. |
