Lab Pros

A recent negative review for a staffing agency in Boston got me reminiscing about my experience several years ago with Lab Pros. So maybe this review is a little outdated, but I’m ok with that. I’d like to think my review is still valid, that they haven’t changed much and still employ hardworking people who seem genuinely interested in connecting with their clients to find them a position they’re a good fit for and don’t just look at them with dollar signs in their eyes as potential commission.
Anyways, a couple weeks from college graduation with no real plans to speak of, I was awake at 3 am and for whatever reason posted a resume to
. The next day I received a phone call from Lab Pros who said they had seen my resume and asked if I wanted to come in for an interview with them. I hadn’t thought of going the headhunter route to find a job, but hey, what the heck, right? So I went for the interview and met with a very likable headhunter. I know that her job was to find me a job, but I was treated with such courtesy and professionalism that I felt she was personally invested in me and any commission or bonus for finding me a job was secondary to my needs. (We all know that’s probably not true, but the important thing was I was treated as such). She did indeed find me a temp job working in a lab, which I’m happy to say turned permanent five months later and I am still there today.
My only critique of this place is that the resumes they send to potential employers aren’t very impressive looking. When I showed up for my interview, I saw a resume on LabPros letterhead that I didn’t create – it looked very condensed compared to what I had originally posted on Monster and nothing like my own personally crafted resume. I handed my interviewers copies of my own resume and more than once heard the remark that the one I created did much more to sell them on me than the one from the employment agency. Still, you’ve got to figure that employers who use agencies like this are accustomed to seeing their company resume formats and shouldn’t hold it against interviewing candidates. So, I knocked off one star the resume I saw, but that’s the only negative critique I have for this agency. If the need arose (and God willing it won’t), I would not hesitate to contact Lab Pros again for job seeking assistance.