Yoh Services

I had a pretty disappointing experience with this employment agency.
I was living in California, looking for a job in Seattle (several months ago) and was referred to a particular Yoh recruiter by a friend. She’d never worked with him; she was just trying to be helpful since she knew us both. When I began chatting with the recruiter, he was cheerful and seemed interested. After a few weeks, he e-​mailed me about a job req I was already aware of since the hiring manager had contacted me directly (I know people on the team) the day prior. I’d not yet responded and know this very large company requires an agency for most of their new hires since they deal primarily in contractors. I could have dealt directly with the hiring manager and decided on an agency when an offer came, but I was feeling charitable so I let this Yoh recruiter pretend he’d brought me the job first and be the middle-​man.
That’s when things got lame. He decreed that I should no longer speak at all to the hiring manager, even if she contacted me about something pertinent. He wanted everything to go through him. That might have been fine if he was good at his job. Unfortunately, he made several mistakes. First he scheduled me for an onsite interview and then told me it would be a phone screener. I discovered the mistake myself the day-​of, at which time it was too late for me to make it onsite. I called and e-​mailed the recruiter several times to no avail (a common theme, he seemed to only answer messages late in the day) and finally I just told the manager directly that there was a miscommunication, which I’m sure made me look like an ass for someone else’s mistake. So instead, I had to do the interview over the phone tho the manager had planned for something else. The next interview (final group interview) was where things really started to go awry. I had a legitimate emergency (an accident that should have had me going to the ER instead of an interview that day) and called the recruiter that morning to let him know and ask if I should reschedule for another day vs. show up frazzled and in pain. He told me to just show up, knowing I’d likely also be late and have no time to prep with him prior to the interview. So I did. He told me he would advise the hiring manager of my situation and let her know I would be a few minutes late, but in reality he did neither — and when I showed up 5 minutes late I got a lot of side-​eyes from the team. At that point, the recruiter was more occupied with boasting and weird inappropriate comments to the office staff than discussing anything helpful to my interview. After my interview began, he took off. The interview itself did not go as great as it could have, I’m sure largely due to them thinking I was late for no reason and the other unnecessary miscommunications. Plus I was sitting there with a serious injury.
Afterwards, I did not hear back from the recruiter — at all. He knew I was in town on my own dime for the interview and waiting on a response. Yet he was very visibly spamming several job boards with this same job req in that time frame, while ignoring my messages. Finally, after a week and a half I got him to reply to one of my e-​mails. He told me I did not get an offer, with no feedback or explanation whatsoever. Then he began a bunch of dodgy verbiage any time I asked about other job reqs. He was always too busy and then finally he came up with the excuse that Yoh no longer placed people in my field (a lie), clearly because he did not want to help me. During all of this, I was 100% polite to him and never gave him a hard time for his many mistakes and missteps. Yet he was the one who wanted to ditch me. I missed out on a job I was a very good match for (and could have gotten on my own, had he not been involved) and he failed to see this or offer the slightest bit of assistance with anything else from there on out.
I later found out that he had gotten himself a recruiter job at the company I interviewed at, and left Yoh after only being there for a few months. So likely, the bulk of his attention went to recruiting for himself rather than for anyone else. Not very professional. Since he no longer works there and I don’t want to be a jerk, I won’t name drop this person… but I cannot assume anyone else there is any better, since my only experience was with him.