Brightwater Recruitment Specialist

I generally try to avoid negative reviews, however I highly advise to avoid Brightwater Recruitment. I recently began searching for a new role and applied to a role advertised by Brightwater. I dealt with a lady named Emma. Emma's initial call was very unenthusiastic in manner, however she agreed to forward my CV to the company. I then spent weeks trying to follow up for an update with no response from Emma and finally when I did get a response she was quite rude about the matter. She made no attempts to keep me updated or suggest other roles to apply to or anything that I would normally expect when dealing with a recruitment company (as someone who's main background is HR I found it quite appalling).

I gave up and instead went to Gilligan Black and found them much more helpful and subsequently landed a role I now love. I would advise Brightwater to address the lack of communication to candidates, as it appears I'm not alone in my experience based on other reviews.

Got approached via LinkedIn and I was "amazing candidate" for a Tech Support role in Ireland. Got called by the same Brightwater employee who was barely audible to ask me some questions. But they were spoken in very commanding language and she spoke about VISA's while I'm Dutch and Dutch people don't even need a VISA cause we're European. Later she cancelled the phone call because "my English was not good for the role" while I just have "Advanced" for my English course that I followed here in Dublin. Buy some better telephone with a better mic at first

At first I went to Brightwater to discuss a new job on offer and ended up working directly for Brightwater. Recruitment was really helpful with finding me a new job, had a meeting very next day. As someone who worked for a number of companies in Dublin, I can honestly say that Brightwater was the best. Very professional and helpful management team, fun, friendly and collaborative team members! If I could work for them again, wouldn't think twice.

Maybe reconsider the person looking after calling candidates, very weird phone call from Emma, extremely awkward conversation, did not sound in the slightest bit interested in helping me find a job, to be honest not entirely sure as to why she bothered to ring me as she spent most of the call having issues with my CV . Also advised she would call me with a time to meet and never bothered to follow up. Thankfully not every agency is as and unhelpful as this,if you are looking for genuine help use Lex consultansy or CPL .

Terrible attitudes, like 95% or 9 out of 10 recruiters. They should remember that their target market is the customer, ie the person who they NEED to fill jobs. Not just catering to the client and pushing people into any job.

Would not recommend, they send you messages on LinkedIn asking “if you know anyone who would be interested” hahahah yeah hold on - sure I’ll just do your job for you while you’re asking, how’s that?
Lazy recruiters. No qualifications needed to do the job, says it all. The scourge of the construction industry is what they are.