This is about the office in Irving, TX
My attempt to be placed in a position by Cornerstone Staffing in Irving, TX, was the worst experience I have ever had in such firms.
I found a job online through a job website that reposted the position from Cornerstone Staffing (CS.) The listing said to go to the CS website and fill out their surveys there which took all your work experience and attachments. The posting also said to show up at CS offices at 9AM sharp between Monday through Thursday. So I did what I was supposed to.
Thinking that the posted hours to show up at CS were for this position, I called as I was running late and I was told that wouldn't be a problem. Turns out there was nothing to worry about since close to 20 people, sort of cattle to them, were placed in a room smaller than most doctor's waiting rooms - with a radio. I presume the radio was there to keep us awake and to placate any sense of being treated like a steer. (Would have been nice to have had something to read.) Though I showed up at 9:30AM instead of 10AM sharp, a woman in the room who showed up at 9AM still waited two hours to see someone - as was the case with myself. While I waited I got to fill out a smaller version of the on-line questions.
Turns out the staff had issues with me since I had been self-employed for the past 10 years and weren't sure what to do since there was no supervisor to call for employment verification. I suppose already sending my resumé to them meant nothing because anyone would see these were my businesses. They also wanted a hard copy of the resumé as well which means they don't appear to have access to their online submission forms. So I was told I had to prove to them I owned the three businesses I had listed before recommending me to the job I was responding to in the first place. My CS consultant didn't seem to know much about the job. I suggested she look at my website and the client see it as well so they could see I wasn't lying. She thought that was funny. (The position dealt with turning Excel data into editable PDF and MS Office applications for presentations - not a run of the mill skill set.)
After sitting there for two hours, I was told to go home, look for my taxes and business licenses and send them to her. She said the client would need to see them. That, of course, was a total fabrication, since she never picked up a phone or tapped an email to the client to see if that was the case. This is something someone from the CS office should have let me know before I went there if they saw my resumé. I sat there for two hours to be told to get more information to prove I was not a liar. This is information I could have brought with me if CS had the decency to treat their applicants with respect and individual attention unlike the dregs of society begging for table scraps.
Well paying job or not, if a staffing agency shows such disrespect to you as to illuminate any sense of worth they feel you deserve, don't use them. Oh, and she never gave me any information about Cornerstone Staffing - nothing about why you should work with them instead of other firms. I suppose they realized it would be a waste of ink. read more