Manpower

Poor customer service
The girls in the front sucks
This place needs good customer service n friendly people

After months of struggling to find work, I sent my resume to Manpower. They called me in for an interview and asked me to fill out a ton of paperwork. In addition to this, they sent various online forms for me to fill out and gave me assessments (Office Suite, and Typing). After I passed with above average scores, I was told I would be contacted when they found an opportunity. I was never contacted… So I reached out to them after 2 months and was told to take the assessments again! It’s as if they have no record of my previous visit.

Very unprofessional! I’m not sure whether these stupid girls in this office were being racist or they are just simply rude and unprofessional! So someone i know came in to the office, ok so five minutes late after looking for a parking. They all started talking about what they have for lunch and how much they want to lose weight. Uh hello! Keep it to yourself! People need a job these days especially those who just graduated from college to get an actual education! They’re excuse was they were busy! They were not going to interview my friend. The office was empty and no one was there!! Bunch of stuck up assholes! Hope you read my review! Your customer service sucks major ballz!

Got a job through Manpower. I had my interview 2 weeks ago. The office is nice. Parking is expensive so if they advise you to take bart then do so! The receptionist (Zaza) was very nice and attentive.
The interview:
There were no real hard questions. Came in interested in the mail clerical position and the data entry position I found on Craigslist. The staffing specialist (Keely Walsh) just wanted to make sure that I was ok working in a production driven environment. I took a alphanumeric test and passed! I got the data entry position which pays better. I signed and reviewed the paperwork online.
Background Check:
A few days later I went to the location I would be working at and filled out some more paperwork and they live scanned me. Currently just waiting on the results so I can go in for the 3 day training. I will update this post once I get working into the job.
Training:
Training was easy. Manpower scheduled me for a 1 day security training in which I watched a PowerPoint slide and after that they scheduled me for on the job training which was only about 2 hours of actual training.
Job:
The job was one of the most funnest jobs I’ve ever had. My bosses were awesome! Thank you so much Manpower! I really did enjoy my time at that job.

I have no network in Oakland, and it feels like I’ve been throwing resumes into a black hole. So I started looking in to staffing agencies. I saw a online post that this agency was having a job fair.
It wasn’t a job fair. A job fair is when employers all set up little tables in a shitty conference room. This was an open house where you could walk in and talk to their recruiters… something you could do any day of the week, I imagine.
There were two recruiters sitting in one cubicle chatting. They told me to fill out the questionnaire on the table and pointed… sorta.
So, I took the 1.5 minutes to fill out the crappy little questionnaire, and then I sat listening to them gossip for five minutes.
Finally, I stood up and walked over and waited for one of them to acknowledge me.
One was wearing Uggs… this should have been a sign to turn around and walk out.
They literally both sighed and rolled their eyes and one of them said, «I’ll take him.»
We sit down, and I hand her my resume. She pays no attention. She asks if I registered online, and I say yes. She pulls up my record and says, «I can’t do anything with you until you finish your online profile.»
I tell her that I’m happy to finish the online profile and then I sketch out what I’m looking for in terms of employment. I ask if that’s something her agency can work with.
Impatiently, she says, «Sir, I can’t look in to anything for you until you finish your online profile. I need to see your education history and work experience.»
I point out that my resume — which she has completely ignored — contains all of that information.
I notice that she keeps fidgeting and looking over to the other side of her desk. I glance over — there is a fucking ice cream sandwich melting onto her desk! It’s sitting in a stained Starbucks lid dripping onto the desktop.
She sees me starring at the sandwich and then back at her. She mumbles something about how I’ll need to be tested and provide a couple of forms of ID.
«I can see that you’re more interested in your snack than working with me, so I’ll just go.»
She says that she can find me something, but that its my fault for not reading the post correctly.
I get that often times, recruiters end up playing sort of case manager to folks with inconsistent employment history… and that’s a tough job. But the attitude given to me by the recruiter indicated that she was unorganized, unprofessional and likely ineffective at her job. I don’t want to work with an agency that makes people like her their first contact point.

Unprofessional and unorganized. Filled out some paperwork for a job, the lady told me there would be more forms to fill out online and she’d email me to do so when and if the company reviewed my initial info and liked me. She emailed me on accident 4 days later, 2 days after the training for the job started. When I called her she didn’t know she emailed me, she told me the job started 2 days ago and I was selected to be hired but it’s too late. Then instead of apologizing, attempting to fix her mistake, or resolving the problem in any way she told me it was somehow my fault and I could apply directly to the company… Unreal. Tried to reach out to management, they seemed concerned but still haven’t heard back. Wasted my time and cost me a job. Thanks.