Laufer and Associates

Super (phony) friendly reps, excellent (fake) job postings, enthusiastic (initial) feedback about your experience and qualifications will all lead to time wasted when dealing with this agency.
I am not sure if the employees are just desperate for conversation, but unless you are looking to hold a conversation (they called it an interview…) with a completely green, inexperienced (she had been on the job less than a month.), utterly unhelpful employee who will never follow up, save your time and avoid this agency.

Oh please… at first they were my best friends, then after I was sent on job interviews that were not what I had wanted, they stopped calling me. Felt pressured to go on interviews for stupid positions and was told in an indirect way that these positions would be good for me. I guess I was only sent to meet their quotas for the month. I know that Julie has an in at a certain company I wanted to work for but she manipulated it so that I would not get hired. She knew I needed the job and I was willing to enter at an entry level position, yet she did not advocate for me. Either do as your told by Julie and her staff or you get the kiss of death. Terrible that people who really want and need a job are at the hands of this recruiter who really doesn’t give a damn about helping you. If you don’t let her manipulate you, she won’t help you.
Job seekers… BEWARE!

Do I have to give it a star. I wish I had checked Unilocal about this agency before I got involved with them. Hands down the worst agency and Worst.Agency.Ever are the most accurate statement according to my experience. They can’t even check their email for information, instead they call you to do it for them. Wasted my time, don’t waste yours.
Statements such as: If you want this job, you’ll get this done now… — all i want to hear from you is get it done because I’m working alone here. What professional recruiter speaks to their clients in such a manner. Rude pure rude.

I applied for a job posted on Craig’s List and got a response from Cristin at Laufer. I knew based on the ad (specifically not mentioning a company name) that it was through a recruitment agency but I hadn’t heard of Laufer before that.
The position I applied for was a perfect fit for me but it was filled really quickly. Cristin offered to submit me for an alternate position and asked me to come in for an interview. I met with her for nearly an hour as she went through my background and asked me what I was looking for. Unlike some other, larger agencies in Boston, Cristin was really positive about what my goals should be and how she could help me meet them. I left the building feeling really great about my prospects.
The initial position I applied for opened up twice more and Cristin was really proactive about keeping me informed and touching base as things progressed. Third time was the charm and I was hired on a temp-​to-​perm basis! I’ve now been hired as a permanent employee at a fantastic company doing a job that’s perfect for my personality and skill set.
I’m really grateful to Cristin and Laufer for working hard on my behalf and for the frequent communication throughout the process. I was never left wondering about the status of an application or what my next steps would be. I hope to not need their services for a long time, but I look forward to referring my friends to Laufer and Associates!

I came here on a referral of a friend/​coworker a few years back. At the time, I was working in a temp to perm job through another agency that just wasn’t going anywhere. I met with two other agencies in Boston, but they didn’t seem to have the time or interest to really get to know me and find out what I was looking for. My friend who referred me was placed by Julie Laufer. So, I met with Julie about a week after contacting her. She was very welcoming and we instantly clicked. She met with me for an HOUR! Everyone else I met with in the past made me fill out paperwork for 15 minutes and then met with me for five. Anyway, throughout the hour, she really got a feel for what I was interested in and looking for. She presented ideas to me without trying to force me into something I wasn’t interested in. That day, she sent my résumé off to a client. It turned out they weren’t interested in seeing me, but I’m glad they weren’t. This is why– two days later she called me up to tell me about a new opportunity. I started in the role a couple weeks later and I am still with the company to this day!!!
Julie and her team were so helpful. I am so thankful she took the time to get to know ME when no one else did.

If there was an option for zero stars I would rate that. This was one of the WORST experiences of my life. I have been working in Corporate for 25 years. I know how «recruitment» works (but that’s another story). Someone told me about this «agency» so I thought I would go and «register» and they would «place» me.
Took the time to go into Boston to meet the President and owner.
I hate going into Boston but I heard so many good things, I KNEW I should have Unilocal them first before going into Boston to waste my time and gas money for this bitch.
I thought I was on a tv show being punked. I literally turned around a few times to wait for the camera men to come out. NOPE. This woman was rude, rude and rude, Demeaning, degrading, harsh and not nice.
Picked me apart from my hair (by the way, i work in a salon part time, and I’m «KNOWN» for my hair, look me up on LINKED IN) I have FABULOUS hair, she picked apart my clothes, my resume was asked if a 5^th grader wrote it.
Ummmmm NO since my resume has landed me over 15 interviews.
She was insulting, rude and I would NEVER EVER do business with her again.

Update in response to owner’s comments:
1. Thank you for clarifying the filtered reviews but I would like to point out that I am a very low-​volume Unilocaler with this being my 4^th review, so I am unsure as to why all my reviews have passed the algorithm.
2. As I mentioned in my original review, I am back on the job market and thus the memory of how unprofessionally my account was handled came flooding back. Also, at that time, Unilocal,although it was around, wasn’t really the resource that it is today.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my review. I hope that you take it – plus the other less than stellar reviews that contain similar issues – as constructive criticism so that you can improve your business model. Clearly you must be doing something right, if you are still in business but as with anything there is always room for improvement so I hope you take what myself and the other reviews have said and learn and improve based on the comments.
Best wishes for 2012.

Absolutely incredible! Julie and her team were the ONLY agency that got me interviews. I have worked with many an agency before but laufer is the best!
Great companies, incredible follow-​up, kind, friendly, professional — seriously the best!

I went here in response to a position that I saw they posted on
. I figured if they were posting jobs on Monster vs Craigslist they must be getting good jobs and higher quality jobs… just my train of thought that the cost of posting on monster is more pricey then craigslist but I could be wrong.
With that said I went in to meet with one of the recruiters — or so I thought– and ended up meeting with the head of the company. She was nice enough and did give a ton of feed back on my resume and how to tweek it and such. I was impressed. She then had me tell her about what I was looking for and listened– truly listened compared to alot of the other firms I went to.
She then proceeded to yell out her office door to one of the recruiters about a job that she thought I would be a great fit for. The recruiter didn’t respond so she paged her to come in. They proceeded to tell me about the position– it was at a firm that I actually interviewed at that morning. Needless to say– asking me where I have interviewed at/​applied at to date would have been good on their part (the two other agenices I had been to at this point asked me that and asked to stay in the loop of other places that I may apply to on my own). I tried to tell them this but they seemed to not want to be bothered with that.
They were good about getting me a couple of interviews. One was a 6 week temp assignment that didn’t work out and the 2^nd was this great small firm with three offices, womene run company blah blah blah great benefits etc etc etc. The amount of talking it up should have sent me a message but I must have been asleep that day.
I went on the interview and it sounded fine enough. Was only there for about 15 or 20 minutes and then left so I was like there was no way I got it. They wanted me to come back the next day to meet the other two people that worked in the office. So I went back and was there for about 10 minutes. I mean really– couldn’t have you done better planning and had me go in once instead of twice? Anyways they ended up offering me the job. I was surprised. I took it only to be doing such things as washing cars and twittling my thumbs so I ended up leaving. The job wasn’t all that it was explained to me and Laufer wanted to help in my job search again but I figured if that is all they could find for me then thanks but no thanks.
I found out today that I got a job at the local college– which I have been trying to get in for over a year as far as a job. So anyways they were nicer to me over all then some of the others here but I would be somewhat wary.

Three words: Worst. Agency. Ever.
At first, the male recruiter I met with was great and very enthusiastic about finding a position for me, which they did. It was at a company that another recruiter has a relationship with. So my and this other recruiter prepped me for the interview and I was offered the position at a successful real estate company.
This turned out to be the biggest mistake of my life as the company (and I will keep this short since I’m not reviewing that company) had the worst work environment I could ever imagine. I gave it several months to see if things improved, but they didn’t so I tried to contact my recruiter to see about looking for another position.
Long story short, I couldn’t reach him because it seems he left the company so I called the other recruiter I worked with to get the current job and she asked me to come in to discuss other options. I misspoke before — THIS was the biggest mistake of my life. The meeting to discuss options turned into a session of the recruiter bashing me, my personality, my skills. She also told me that I better find another way to work out my issues with the job because I was lucky to have it and to work for such a wonderful company. Wow. I didn’t want to stoop to her level so I politely left and never looked back.
Fast forward to the next day. My boss calls me into her office and asks if there is anything I need to talk about or anything I want to tell her and then just stares at me knowingly. In case you haven’t already guessed, the recruiter CALLED MY BOSS and told her I was looking to leave. What a disaster. I do understand that recruiters are basically sales people, but if money was really what she was worried about, she would have gotten the sale off replacing me at my current job and off of whatever new job we could find, if she hadn’t been so detestable.
Oh and to top it off, I did ask her about my original recruiter and she very carefully chose her words and implied that he had to leave because he was not a good fit for the agency — which to me, knowing him and now knowing the agency, meant that he had morals and a conscience and didn’t approve of the way things were handled there.

Hands down, this is the worst recruitment organization I have encountered. The lack of professionalism is insulting. My initial interview was not bad, although the pitch about how this agency is different made me feel like I was in a time-​share captive audience setting for a few minutes. My rep did, however, present a couple of interesting opportunities to me and asked me to come in to meet the head of the organization the next day. He emphasized how important it was that she meet me as soon as possible to get a better idea of my personality and to be able to pitch me to a couple of select employers asap.
Upon hearing this, I re-​arranged my schedule to make it downtown for 5 for a second day in a row. Fine — I am a team player. My second time in was the most ridiculous encounter I have ever had. The founder/​president did not have the courtesy to meet with me in an office or to stop answering her cell phone through out the five minutes she graced me with her presence. Moreover, she decided to pitch a job that had nothing to do with my interests to me in a setting that sounded horrible. It was a complete bait and switch.
My «interview» was in a large room full of other reps, ringing phones, someone’s nine-​year-​old daughter, and banter between the reps. To add insult to it all, the guy who initially interviewed me seemed slightly afraid of the founder and offered me the ground-​breaking advice to smile and look cheerful for this woman. I got the impression if the founder was a man I would have been told to show some leg.
Did I mention, no one offered me a seat during this second meeting? The two interviewers sat down and left me standing in the middle of this room near the kid coloring.
Finally, I had submitted a friend’s resume before knowing how these people really operate — guess what — they are now pestering him to come in, but have never contacted me again — except to send me unsolicited newsletters. Smooth and professional…