Appalling responses and lies - General Manager Randstad Employee Review

1.0
Aug 17, 2025
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Pros

Exists as an organisation while many other companies are better

Cons

organisations that doesn't have much work and lies about it, acting like basic menial tasks are herculean feats of mind and strength that make previous experience in similar roles with easily transferable skills "not suitable" Yet I see same role repeatedly posted over and over (to make it look like they can always find work). If they truly needed workers they wouldn't just refuse people who have previous experience in within the same roles/industry etc...They only care about their own employment not to get people employment. That's the whole point of job agencies! Be honest and upfront if you don't have the work or can't line it up just say so instead of lying to people and talking down to them with condescension.

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5.0
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Loved my team. My Manager was incredibly supportive, understand, and always rooting for myself as well as my teammate's success. Remote work was highly flexible and accommodating.

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1.0
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Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Cons

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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