[Colug-jobs] Anyone worked with/through "General Employment"?

[Brian Miller]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 8:52 am, Jeff Frontz wrote:
> There's a [new?] employment outfit downtown called "General
> Employment" that is spamming all the job sites with generic sounding
> positions listing huge pay ranges (from 50-100K).  When I tried to
> get any specific information out of them, they insist that I first
> must come downtown to their offices for a face-to-face interview
> during core work hours.  I get that (if they were legitimate) they
> don't want their listings poached, but their answers were a bit too
> pat and trite and amazingly evasive, like they'd been rehearsed and
> used over-and-over.  When I asked round-about questions about the
> specific posting, the guy finally admitted that the job they were
> posting for was not even in the Columbus area.  I was left feeling
> like they're just trying to pad their resume database.
>
> Has anyone had any experience with them that might contradict my
> impressions?

I once had a friend who worked at an employment agency downtown, back in the 
mid 90's.  I don't think it was General Employment; I think they were a more 
specialized agency.  

At any rate, he got paid based on piece-work:  if he found someone for a job 
posting, he got paid.  Otherwise he received nothing.  He eventually quit 
because he just couldn't bring himself to talk to people who were already in 
jobs they liked in order to try to convince them to jump ship.

I may have visited their office when I first got into town back in the early 
90's.  I remember leaving thinking it was a waste of time to have visited 
them.