Stascom Technologies

Exceeding rude and unprofessional firm. I don’t write Unilocal reviews but will go out of my way for this firm. I am not looking for a job however I got a call from somebody — who seems not to understand what polite business exchange is about — about an opportunity I «must hear about». Her name is Lauren Engelhardt
Here is my response:
Lauren
What was the opportunity you were calling me about?
Also in the future I don’t mind you running things by me but please do it by email not by telephone.
Here is her response:
That’s not how we do business and how we’ve been so successful for almost 30 years now. (from a 28 year old)
We don’t hide behind email. This is about your career so if you aren’t open to me calling you and having a conversation — it’s probably not the best fit anyway.
Best of luck to you.
This is exceedingly rude and certainly not the way a recruiter should talk to a very senior person. Draw your own conclusions. I deal with many recruiters and not one besides this one has ever had a problem with be asked to restrict initial contacts to email

Rude and unprofessional — I could not attend the client interview and duly informed my recruiter. He sent me a curt response saying that if you want to cancel the interview you have to inform the client that’s not what I will do. Keep in mind that I had never interacted with the client before this. I let the recruiter know my displeasure over this but nevertheless contacted the client. The recruiter did not bother to email me back or apologize knowing I’m pissed. Good luck with contacting me again.
Glad that this happened — I’m not looking for a job and only wanted to see if they’ve got anything good for me — they obviously don’t as I doubt any client worth their salt would retain unprofessionals to get good folks in.

Very poor customer experience. Recruiter called my home family telephone vs trying to reach via email. I called back as a courtesy and was treated rudely when I would not provide my last name. I provided feedback to the CEO, Harvey, and he snapped back justifying the rudeness.
I would not trust them for a pizza order much less my career. Stay far far away and work with someone more professional.
From CEO when i provided feedback (guess they do not realize without candidates they have no companies)
We are a very large search firm and get a complaint like this once in 5 years. you aren’t a customer. Our customers are paying client companies, not candidates. Candidates don’t pay us and if we place a candidate we are a free service for candidates. Move on. Im busy.
We are one of the oldest and most respected search firms in the industry. We must be as we are in business 24 years. Few recruitment firms can say that.
Harvey Bass
CEO
STASCOM