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siologen · Joined: 25 Oct 2016 Posts: 336

Hello All,

Anyone know anything about, or worked for, this company called desert recruiting before?

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Is it another outfit similar to QEC et al? Also it mentions Al Hasa & NITI which I recall have been mentioned on here before? Is this a good outfit to work for, or is there anything to be wary of regarding accom, payment, treatment and so on?

Cheers on,
S

Foo_Fighters_Dave · Joined: 09 Dec 2016 Posts: 162

There are heaps of threads concerning NITI. Look them up. I remember there being 3-5 as recently as eighteen months ago.

I taught at NITI for three months in 2014 and it was a bad experience. They forgot to pick me up at the airport, had me teach a class that day after I called them from the airport, the management was terrible, people quit every other week, they tried to nickel and dime teachers from overtime, etc.

Go at your own peril.

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

siologen · Joined: 25 Oct 2016 Posts: 336

Ok, will take all of this on board. Thanks all.

sammysez · Joined: 20 Nov 2016 Posts: 119

Proof positive the recruiters all know one another and pass our names and resumes around.

Desert Recruiting contacted me for a job and I never applied. They did say they got my contact info from their database.

siologen · Joined: 25 Oct 2016 Posts: 336

Paul in Saudi · Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 404 Location: Doha, Qatar

Never heard of them.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Me neither. Dodgy recruiters outnumber the "legitimate" ones.

Arenta · Joined: 24 Jul 2016 Posts: 125

Arenta · Joined: 24 Jul 2016 Posts: 125

sammysez · Joined: 20 Nov 2016 Posts: 119

Actually, I never dreamed of ghosting ads etc. But it makes sense. The recruiters must pull from this magical database.

Arenta · Joined: 24 Jul 2016 Posts: 125

So a group of recruiters set up a database, post ghost ads for jobs in order to get people's info to use when real jobs come up? If so, they must have had some kind of "conference" at some point to get this up and running !

It seems to be the case because I've been contacted several times by recruiters I've never heard of saying "we've seen your details on the database and thought you might be interested in this position..." and it continues to happen.

Lord T · Joined: 07 Jul 2015 Posts: 285

It's true that some recruiters cooperate with others; and exchanging information about teachers is one way that they do.

It's better not to complain to recruiters who send you job adverts/invitations to recruitment days: an ex-colleague of mine was, he acknowledged, rather abrupt with an agent who was bombarding him with e-mails.

The agent threatened to put him on a blacklist, which the agent claimed was read by all the other agents/recruiters.

Arenta · Joined: 24 Jul 2016 Posts: 125

I agree that can happen but if someone is being bombarded by emails from a recruiter and they have asked not to be contacted by them again and it's ignored, then it's hard to see why someone wouldn't eventually lose their cool. Either that or unsubscribe from emails. But sometimes even that isn't possible because there's often no unsubscribe link!

sammysez · Joined: 20 Nov 2016 Posts: 119

I'm wondering what we have discovered?

Not trying to be melodramatic, but I see above a database, ghosting ads for nonexistent jobs and now a black list??

I figured as in any industry, they all knew one another, but I guess big brother is here.