Great staffing agency - just did not keep me busy enough after 2012. - Anonymous employee Randstad Employee Review

3.0
Sep 17, 2014
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Pros

Randstad is a great company to work for. They have offices all over the world.

Cons

I signed on with them in May of 2012. They kept me busy from May, 2012 through December, 2012. After December, 2012 - Nothing!!. .Starting in January of 2013, I called in every single Monday morning to notify them of my availability. From January through December of 2013, I received no assignments. I finally got fed up in January of 2014.

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Cons

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Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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