Deacon Recruiting

I was contacted by a young lady by the name of Lauren Costley. She was very professional, cheerful and has a great deal of personality. She is a good listener but more importantly understands the space which my profession lives in, that’s quite unusual.
After a few failed attempts at getting together, such is the nature of life, we finally met. I was greeted by a very professional looking individual who was incredibly polite, she offered me coffee, real china, and a place to sit, I arrived early.
Lauren came into the room and was very apologetic about our attempts to get together, I certainly understood, we live in a busy world.
Lauren was very vested in our conversation, she asked me a lot of good questions, made a ton of notes and most importantly, made me feel like I could add value to some of her clients. I can tell you that I’ve dealt with over 50 recruiters during my career, Lauren would be in the top ten percentile.
I took the time to read some of the other unfavorable reviews, it’s a shame. I don’t think that most people understand the relationship between themselves and the recruiter. It’s a very simple and straightforward relationship, if they don’t have an opportunity for you, they don’t call, why should they, their dealing with others that do have an opportunity.
Are there poor recruiters, of course there are, just like there are shisters, quacks and many other types of incompetents in every profession.
Recruiters are and can be a very effective road to employment, but you have to remember, you never put all your eggs in one basket, that’s not how it works.

The recruiters are pleasant. The owner, Ms. Deacon is very into control. I met with a recruiter and then had to go in on a weekend to meet Ms. Deacon. I was accidentally sent an invoice for my services. They were charging the customer over 100% mark-​up. Their agreement was for a much lower percentage. I was paid on time and accurately but that’s the nicest thing I can say about them.

If Deacon believes they can make money off of placing you, the service is great. Otherwise, they treat candidates like trash.
Ann Deacon — you should be ashamed!

Went on one interview, a week after arriving in San Antonio… then my experience has been the same as everyone else’s: radio silence.

I agree 100% this recruiting company is a joke. They contacted me via email for a job posting and I called to follow up and the person Alex that was suppose to follow up with me was the worst employee ever. He sucks at returning calls after two weeks of me calling and leaving vm and emails. Till this day the guy can’t even call me to f/​u on our phone interview. Nothing but a waste of time. No excuses I don’t recommend them.

Simply terrible! Recruiter contacted me and left a message… Left her 3 voicemails back over a 3 week period, and still no response. This is why the world thinks Americans are stupid… She’d lose her job anywhere else.

This place is a JOKE!!! I went in for an interview, the girl who interviewed me named Katie or something was overweight and wearing casual non-​business clothing. She was the most arrogant person I have ever met here in San Antonio. Stay away from this business… they are NOT PROFESSIONAL!!! Even if they offered me a million dollar job — I would say NO and go somewhere else where I am treated like a human and not like a dog!!!

Moving in and out San Antonio has been a hard transition and looking for decent work out here is even harder. I reached out to Deacon Recruiting because I saw one of their positions that caught my eye and then I got no response.
Um…I have NEVER EVER reached out to a staffing agency and not gotten a response back. Perhaps I’m just used to Bay Area standards.