Lies and Excuses

I have used Parker Placements for the 1st time in 2017 and again in 2020. With regards to their CV writing services I was happy with the services they provided me with.

However the experience I had in February 2021 proved to be the extreme opposite. I paid Anne Verster approximately R3000 as a Head Hunter fee to help find me a suitable job after I was retrenched in December 2020. She did revamp my LinkedIn account and used some of my job portal login details to apply for jobs for me as well. Anne is a rude, arrogant, disrespectful and deceitful person who continuously lied to me after taking my money. She claims to have marketed my CV and profile to hundreds of companies. Whenever I questioned her for feedback to find out why after 1.5 months nobody was interested in speaking to me I was told it is because of the economy. She was always defensive and angry when her credibility was questioned. I was always having to phone her and follow up. Not once did she ever get back to me about anything.

She has a staff member Stephanie who is her assistant. This woman from my experience was completely unhelpful, immature and incapable of interacting with me normally. During 1 conversation when I questioned what she was doing to help me she immediately cut the call and went straight to Anne telling her to deal with me. Needless to say I never spoke to her again.

Since signing up.with Anne to this day no company has ever contacted me. My last conversation with her was in March. I also noticed that her number on WhatsApp is no longer active.

I would never advise anyone to use this company for recruitment purposes. They do not have a business physical address last time I checked. Anne claims to be based in Sandton however there is no proof of that. There is also no way of knowing what she is doing to help you as her approach of "all talk (and most likely nonaction)" is what I had to put up with.