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Sixty-six per cent of the 1,000 IT workers surveyed by the site also reported they had been affected adversely by the current economic downturn.
The survey findings reported: | External links: | TheSkillsMarket.com
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'the quality of the service given by agencies still has a lot to be desired at a time when the recruitment industry becomes vital to the increasing numbers of IT professionals that are out of work.'
Only 12 per cent of respondents said the service they had received from agents was 'good.' Forty-five per cent said it was 'average' and 44 per cent reported service to be 'poor.'
'Poor job matching' came top of the list with 70 per cent of contract and permanent IT workers accusing agencies of wasting their time by sending them to clients where they were expected to undertake work they did not possess the relevant skills sets for.
Respondents also complained there was a 'general lack of feedback' from recruitment agencies.
Gabrielle Drewitt, an IT contractor, said: "I can understand that recruitment consultants are busy but after spending time writing an email and sending in my CV, I would at least expect an email to acknowledge its receipt! Good recruitment companies will do this but unfortunately they seem to be very few and far between."
Daniel Elkins, CEO of TheSkillsMarket, commented: "It's not surprising that candidates are finding this a problem. The emergence of the online job advert has caused CV volumes to more than triple in the last few years and recruitment companies simply can't keep up. As most companies still use manual data entry to input CVs onto their systems, which is both time consuming and costly, we're finding that they're being left with backlogs of tens of thousands of CVs."
The latest skills figures issued by TheSkillsMarket show:
The top five IT skills by supply:
Rank | Skill | Contract rate | Perm rate | | 1 | HTML | £29.62 | 27,874 | | 2 | Windows NT | £31.95 | £29,873 | | 3 | UNIX | £39.45 | £35,331 | | 4 | JAVA | £35.86 | £31,278 | | 5 | Oracle | £38.62 | £35,728 |
The top five IT skills by demand:
Rank | Skill | Contract rate | Perm rate | | 1 | JAVA | £35.86 | £31,278 | | 2 | C++ | £35.89 | £31,689 | | 3 | UNIX | £39.45 | £35,331 | | 4 | MS SQL Server | £34.15 | £32,878 | | 5 | MS Visual Basic | £35.00 | £30,845 |
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Richard Powell, © Shout99.com 2002
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