What is the worst employment agency service you used?

psh i don't use them but i manage to walk out the door and get some really bad jobs 拢3.00 an hour waitress and till worker also did dishes helped in the kicthen didn't get breaks for lunch.
Before that when i was 16 i worked with this boss who was unbelievable she shouted at you over things you had no control over and kept you behind when it was ur time to go saying you didn't do enough work the last hour so u have to do an extra hour to make up for it (she did this to a guy not me)
There are worse jobs i'm not cutting fish in antartic, i'm not out in an oil rig :D

TSS Personnel staffing. Located in San Francisco,CA. My recruiter was a DUMB ***. He told me that the Employment Development Department don't make the laws & that I should be working part time for the agency. Temps get paid weekly.

Rainbow Recruitment. Applied, had one very long interview with them, got accepted, and never heard from them again.

APPLE ONE. they suck!!!

Just my opinion but after 20 years of working I think they are all bad. They also keep changing names so who can keep up with them? With the internet they are now obsolete. Just yesterday as a matter of fact a "recruiter" forwarded me a job listing directly from Monster.com with the monster ID asking me if I was interested in working for their "Client". They are all sales people and don't care at all about you. They will lie on both ends and promise you the moon. They also don't know anything about your field of work but ask a bunch of inane questions anyway. My vote for the worst would go to Robert Half. A trick they pull is constantly posting jobs that do not exist just to get candidates in the door and signed up. These are money grubbers and uneccessary which is why most reputable companies state on their job postings "no agencies". Also avoid the many who ask you to meet them at Starbucks. I wouldn't waste my time, these people are searching the internet just like anybody else, they have no special connections unless maybe you are being recruiting for a CFO or CEO position which can be a different story.

I agree with the poster who said they are all bad. They are. Today I am especially fed up with Robert Half and their affiliates. I have done office work for many years, have excellent references, scored high on all the tests. Today they offered me a job at a cemetary dusting off headstones for $7.00.

I am not kidding.

Most of them are crap - when I was looking for work I registered with almost twenty different agencies, and only one of them (Tate, for admin recruitment in the UK) were any good. One out of twenty is not a good statistic.

I now work as an in-house recruiter in the IT industry and could tell so many stories about all the rubbish agencies that I have to deal with. The problem is, they are just sales people, looking to fill the position and thus get their commission, and they have very little respect for their client (the employer) and no respect whatsoever for the candidate.

They can all be rubbish.
It depends on the consultant at each agency you deal with.

I have used Michael page and at times they have been useless but recently they have been much better.

I have learnt through bitter experience to build up a rapport with the consultant I am dealing with as they will provide more advice and work harder to find a job for me.