Randstad

This agency is a joke. Typical recruiting firm that does the bait-​and-​switch by bringing you in for an interview, but not for the job you applied for. I met with James Jang for an interview on my lunch break, told him about my experience as an EA doing contract work, and the positions offered were not the ones listed on
. For that matter, there was also no mention of it. Total waste of time.

3 stars for potential, not that I didn’t love it. I was contacted by Katie D late in my job search and didn’t get to spend too much time with her. I would recommend her from the interactions I did have with her.
Katie D definitely was true to her word about keeping in communication and I will give them points for that. I want to give her more stars but I didn’t work with her that long. Three stars for great potential and being a very communicative recruiter.

I feel compelled to write this review, as Randstadt provided a massive help to me when I moved to SF for the first time and changed careers. I registered with 2 other temp agencies that were condescending about my lack of experience, but not so Randstadt. James and Kiran were great. Though I had little or no experience in the positions they offered, they worked with me rapidly to improve my resume and frame my work history in ways that almost immediately got results, and I was doing temp work within 2 weeks, and regularly employed within 3. It was awesome.
Less than six months after I began working with them, I was able to use the experience gained in the positions they provided to obtain a full-​time position at a tech company, where I have since risen to a managerial role. I am really indebted to Randstadt and this positive review is the least I can do. I am honestly really shocked that their average score is so low.
At my reference, my friend also found permanent employment through this company.
One thing– you do need to initiate follow-​ups. They will follow up themselves, but it can take up to a week, whereas if you initiate the follow-​up yourself you will hear back much more rapidly.

I am new to SF and I was working with Office Team who low balls you like crazy for temp pay, Career Group, Group Insearch and Pacific Placement all at the same time. I found a posting online for an Office Manager role. Randstad called me about the position a couple of days later and I got the temp to hire job the next day. Maybe I was lucky, but I had a great experience with them. They pay you more for temp roles than any other staffing agency in SF. Only reason for the 4 stars instead of 5 is because I didn’t receive 2 paychecks and when I called their headquarters I was on hold for like ten minutes before I could get a hold of anyone.

I get a call from John at Randstad in Foster City regarding a receptionist position that starts at $ 18 the parent company is supposedly Microsoft in SF. He seemed more interested in my current position during our conversation. He said I’d have to meet him in Foster City for a job in SF… There’s no way I’m taking off work to meet some random recruiter in Foster City. I offered to do a webcam interview and email the paperwork (I work with a recruiting agency in LA who had no problem with this). He humms and hahs oh well guess it won’t work out bc I won’t go there. I call back half an hour later once I realize they have an office in SF and ask to meet with someone there «I just found out the position was filled» seriously?! this guy was trying to lure me to Foster City on false pretenses with no job offer and to waste my time.

I typically don’t care much for recruiters, and this one wins first prize. The lack of professionalism by the recruiter is appalling enough to be worth this post. I work in production support and had to cancel my interview w their client an hour before as an issue came up, which had I bailed on my employer, would have surely been fired. Needless to say my job takes precedence over some recruiter or other interview. The recruiter took it very personally and had no qualms about letting me know I had ‘screwed them over’. Even though I apologized profusely several times, the recruiter could not let it go. The guy even got personal over text messages THE FOLLOWING DAY telling me ‘I have no respect for his profession’ and eventually even bragged about his salary and how he’s good at his job and makes 140K per year just 2 years out of school. Almost makes me sick aside from considering recruiters don’t do much except take a larger portion of our cut than they deserve for doing nothing (subjective opinion from me — hehe). I even said, ‘For what it’s worth, I’m honored that I was such a big deal.’ to which the recruiter said, ‘You were not the big deal. The fact that you bailed on the interview and made us look bad was the big deal.’ Anyway, I’ve never Unilocaled a recruiter before, but this one really pissed me off. I’m pretty sure the guy was drunk texting me as the worst of the insults happened to be Friday night.
All I can say now is that I’m really happy I ‘bailed on the interview’ and I hope I helped screw up that recruiters relationship with the client good. LOL! :-)

I did a «Donald» with this SF Randstad on Kearny St. as I found it to be both inept and lacking in professionalism. The agent seemed inexperienced and was more interested about my previous companies. I guess what others have said that they are just really «fishing» for info on companies they can solicit thru the desperados and the unemployed.
After more than a week of my waste of time interview, I called the agent back to follow up and all he can tell me was that he hasn’t worked on my case yet and that companies are looking for CPA’s…really, only CPA’s?! Hah! So I emailed back telling him to remove me from his list as it was just a total waste of time that I could be using by searching directly myself. I heard that most recruiters are «useless» anyway so why even bother. He emails back apologizing for not getting back to me in a timely manner but hey, like the song says, it’s too late to apologize…
One note to add here. At the end of my first and only meeting with the recruiter, & during the pleasantries of goodbyes, he hands me his business card and asks for recommendations. It’s like what?! Would I recommend a restaurant without eating in it first? Would I recommend any business without actually experiencing how they do business first? Uhhh no! Talk about unprofessionalism!