Yoany is the most unprofessional staffing agent I have ever corresponded with. She was the main contact for finding work and would send emails with run-on/incomplete sentences (obviously working fast & not reviewing what she wrote before sending), call me saying, "Hey it's Yoany," which I guess works because I don't know anyone else by that name, but I would have preferred, "Hi, this is Yoany at LK Jordan..."
They are not all bad, considering. They provide insurance options, and were helpful when my pay stubs were not being mailed to me & when my insurance began but someone had dropped the ball on the Ins side showing that my coverage was not in place. I was happy to get pt work here and there thru LK Jordan and they did a good job placing me at positions that were a good fit for me.
I am pleased to have a full-time job now which I would have never found without going thru this agency; but during my temp-to-hire time I never received correspondence from the agency asking how it was going, nor did they contact my boss to see how he felt about having me in the office, etc. In my past experience with staffing agencies, they would follow up with me at least every couple weeks to relay any concerns or good reports I might have regarding the work/office/co-workers.
I thought it was funny that I received an email, "Happy Administrative Assistant Day" from Ajilon staffing who I worked with about 4 or 5 years ago & was placed at a job; but I didn't get anything from LK Jordan.
I was also surprised that I never got a congratulations email or card or something from LK Jordan after being placed at this job permanently. It seems they are happy to sit back and make money while not providing any services during the 3.5 months I was on temp status at this job.
My last complaint- and this is important for employers and employees: I called in after a couple months to find out how many more hours I needed to work until my temp-to-hire status could become permanent. Yoany told me I had X amount of hours to reach the 720 mark which would end my temp stint. Less than a month later my boss wanted to get me on permanently and sent a request for the penalty amount they would have to pay in order to take me before my temp contract was done. The next day I get a call from Yoany saying we had a special contract where I only needed to be temp for 500-some-odd hours and that I had the ability to become a permanent employee 2 weeks prior! When I asked why she quoted me the wrong hours previously and never brought up that my temp time was fulfilled, she just said, "I thought you would be happy... we don't contact the employers, it is up to them to tell us when they are ready to bring the employee on full time permanently."
So there you have it. The end result is a good one, but in my experience as a professional, I felt that LK Jordan lacks professionalism expected from a staffing agency. read more