Can I sue a recruitment agency for dismissing me because of an unrelated test to the job advertised?

You won't win, and moreover you have no idea what negligence means. Just quit being a baby and get a different job.

You can sue anyone you want. You shouldn't in this case (because you'd lose), but you can. What you should've done was just take the test.

What did the founder say when you talked to him about the situation?

Let's see... I'm hiring someone and ask them to do a test for me. They refuse and I still hire them. Not in a million years.

Balding Eagle wrote:

Let's see... I'm hiring someone and ask them to do a test for me. They refuse and I still hire them. Not in a million years.

YOU: "Hi I see that you're a dentist applying for the dentist role. Do you mind taking this test so we can verify your skillset?"

ME: "Sure, I'll just...wait what? This test is for physiotherapy. It has nothing to do with being a dentist."

YOU: "Didn't you at least familiarize yourself with human biology concepts in college?"

ME: "Yes, but that was 1 course....and that was in college...and it has nothing to do with the role advertised. Could you just test me on dentistry please?"

YOU: "It's ok, we'll go with someone else."

A non y mous wrote:

What did the founder say when you talked to him about the situation?

Founder said that he wanted to hire me but the agency wouldn't budge and said that I needed to do that one specific test. I suspect that a bigshot at the agency didn't want to take a dent to his credibility that he f'd up in asking me to take the wrong test.

Founder and I remained in contact and he still maintains he wants to work with me at some stage.

Should I sue? wrote:

A non y mous wrote:

What did the founder say when you talked to him about the situation?

Founder said that he wanted to hire me but the agency wouldn't budge and said that I needed to do that one specific test. I suspect that a bigshot at the agency didn't want to take a dent to his credibility that he f'd up in asking me to take the wrong test.

Founder and I remained in contact and he still maintains he wants to work with me at some stage.

Wait, if the founder wanted to hire you it is his choice. The recruiter gets paid if he hires you. I would be concerned about the founder to be honest.

Too bad the founder can’t hire who he wants.

That's true. I've wondered about this.

The founder is non-technical. So he's relying solely on outsourced "experts" to tell him who's qualified or not. I think he wants to believe me but he may have had doubts if I was honest. I mean, I understand, if someone wants a job they're not objective. So because he relies on the agency for an objective opinion, I was at the mercy of their f up .

Dentist wrote:

Too bad the founder can’t hire who he wants.

You're a real simpleton aren't you

Good luck finding a contingency lawyer. If you can’t, that’s a good sign you have no case.

The test was to see what you'd do when presented a challenge in an environment (language/etc) that you weren't familiar with.

You failed miserably by not even trying. What this shows is that you're not a creative problem solver. Probably can't learn on your own and will require re-training every time something changes. Shows that you are too rigid for startup culture where you'd be asked to adapt to change constantly.

The icing on the cake is your reaction -- you want to sue someone.

^ HR departments fap to those "psych tests" all the time, I've run into it. Utterly moronic and meaningless.

Refusing is a better response than any other - shows you're not willing to put up with BS just to get along. For a startup especially, the last thing they need is a culture of incompetence to develop early on.

OP should sever ties with that recruiter and be public about what they did.

It's a startup not an anything goes up! If they advertise for an engineer they can't expect him to sell ice cream. Sounds like there could loosely be a case of false advertising here. Loosely being the key word!

Sounds like you applied thru an employment agency.

If the agency requires IT placements to take their standard IT test you should have taken it.

The amount of bullshitting through IT interviews is hilarious at best, depressing when the result becomes everyday-at-the-cubicles.

(On both sides of the table.)

Should I sue? wrote:

Balding Eagle wrote:

Let's see... I'm hiring someone and ask them to do a test for me. They refuse and I still hire them. Not in a million years.

YOU: "Hi I see that you're a dentist applying for the dentist role. Do you mind taking this test so we can verify your skillset?"

ME: "Sure, I'll just...wait what? This test is for physiotherapy. It has nothing to do with being a dentist."

YOU: "Didn't you at least familiarize yourself with human biology concepts in college?"

ME: "Yes, but that was 1 course....and that was in college...and it has nothing to do with the role advertised. Could you just test me on dentistry please?"

YOU: "It's ok, we'll go with someone else."

Hey dumbf@ck... I'll explain it to you really slow... the actual test didn't matter... what you did was the only way to fail it... and it sounds like you want everyone to know that you failed it... the "founder" is just being nice to you, he pays the recruiter to be the bad cop already.

placementagency wrote:

Sounds like you applied thru an employment agency.

If the agency requires IT placements to take their standard IT test you should have taken it.

No it wasn't their standard test. This test was supposedly for this role only, I was to be the first guinea pig to take it. It wasn't relevant so I asked for a relevant one instead. I was trying to helpful.

To the person who suggested to test this case with a contingency lawyer, this is why I asked this here. I had no idea this would be a good test. I'll contact one and if they think we can win, I'm suing their as$$es.

Lol meathead. You have no experience in the tech industry or in the real world at all. You've learned everything from comic books, I'm sorry, in the real world your opinion is worth less than your only life skill of how to master bate.