Aquent

Well, initially I wasn’t sure about working with this agency since it got like over a hundred negative reviews on
. Since college, I’ve always thought it was ‘the’ agency to get with since they marketed themselves so hard at my school. And that fact that they never accepted me as a candidate, made me think they were ultra exclusive. Since July, I’ve been connected to a lot of creative staffing agencies and had many successful relationships. Aquent has been the single WORST as far as managing expectations, communication, professionalism, and follow-​up. WOW. They really made me feel very low on their priority list and that the client was their main priority. I ended the relationship with the rep, Vanessa screaming at me on the phone. I had given her a week’s notice since I had accepted a full-​time direct hire job. When I called back, since she basically hung up on me, someone else answered and mentioned how the whole team was shocked and victimized and in defense mode because none of them had seen it coming and didn’t know that I was unhappy and how they could never work with me again. Wow. Talk about unprofessionalism. It’s a freaking TEMP job! They said that I should have let them know if I was searching or that I was unhappy and they would have tried to find something else for me or help me since that is their job. BS. Their were initial clues that it was not a good fit and no one offered options to my benefit at that time. Now I know why there are so many negative reviews out. They had mentioned to me a few times that they had to put out fires by pulling people out of jobs like in the middle of the day, simply because it ‘wasn’t working out’. That should have been a clue to me then and there that they were out of touch. The one saving grace is that they actually were the BEST as far as negotiating my hourly rate!