RQA recruitment

I'm sure there was a thread on this but no matter which way I searched the company, nothing came up.

Anyway, they had been recruiting for dollar store pre-assign locations in the event that a large project comes up. I got the max of 20. Now there is a project, frozen dinner effectiveness check, and none of my recruited stores were assigned to me. Instead, I got the typical email that there was a project and was only allowed to select five. After those were done, there were no more for about a week. Then I was allowed to select five more. Then five more. Seems counter-productive.

I'm just curious what the point of the recruitment was, if they're on the regular job board with a limit of five? Did I misunderstand something? It's a little frustrating because I could have knocked out all 20 in 2 days max, last week, now they let me assign a few more but I'm going out of town. Grrr.

Does anyone know the inside scoop?

Added-I just found the other thread under a different heading (sorry) but my question about the recruitment deal still stands.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/02/2024 09:57PM by sestrahelena.

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Hm, I think I only received an email on the day it first got posted. In my area, there were over 20 locations initially posted. A couple of days ago, there were still three remaining, but a little too far for me.

I also signed up for the recruitment project but i still had to request stores when the recall email went out. Not sure what their intentions were with that at all

The recruitment was for a different store. The current frozen food recall is for different dollar stores.

Service and I were each offered only three stores. I just happened to be sitting on my email when I got the heads up that something was available, so I doubt somebody in Podunk got to a bunch of them in 25 seconds to my 30 and left me with only three.

It seems very piecemeal, but in areas where it wasn't, why cap it to a max of five at a time when it's always 20?

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown

It's been weird. For the first round I was only offered 3 and they were in 3 different towns. Then I got an offer the other day with 7, including 3 that are really close to me. No idea why those 7 weren't offered the first time around?

That recruiting seems to have meant nothing. I think they might have just been trying to make sure they had loose coverage commitments to try to win a contract?

@Morledzep wrote:

The recruitment was for a different store. The current frozen food recall is for different dollar stores.

That's not accurate, there were two different recruitments.

Most of the stores I was offered and did this week were on my recruitment list. All but one were of the same woodsy brand. There was one relative store.

About the initial round of these - it seems like it was a soft opening. After they got some reports in, they sent us additional clarifications, such as not substituting pictures of the floor.

My one job is just stuck and won't submit. They even gave me instructions on how to force it through but it won't go. I will have to deal with it tomorrow.

These same things happened to me. I am "pre-approved" for 11 stores within 20 miles of my home. When the job posted, nothing was pre-assigned to me. There were only 3 locations available and there were all much further away and all in different directions. I did take one location that I completed and had trouble submitting. I finally got it submitted but I had to get direct help for RQA to get it to upload.

I, too, wondered why I didn't get my "pre-approved" locations. I didn't know if the Effectiveness Check only hit certain locations and none of them were mine, or if the "pre-approval" meant nothing.

This experience was decidedly clunky compared to all other projects I have done for RQA.

The recruitment thing was weird with it sitting idle as long as it did.

And it led to disappointment at least for me. I still have a big list of stores showing in my recruitment project, but I only wound up with 5 locations as part of the real deal.

The email communication was weird this time, with 2 different people sending the same info, and, at least in my case, messages from one of them were chopped up into multiple unintelligible emails.

And they were late getting the project open on the start day. Luckily that first stop was on my route, and I had picked up an Uber rider along on the way, so my time was not wasted.

Have synthesizers, will travel...

The scoop is, the early rounds of retrieval (it does not matter if you had 1 or 20)
the stops are not automatic, they need to know if someone can cover an area.
PLUS, this is not mystery shopping...why is this even being discussed ??

@claabe wrote:

PLUS, this is not mystery shopping...why is this even being discussed ??

Because it's IC work that many members here are actively involved with.

Have synthesizers, will travel...

I’m guessing that the latest frozen food recall is separate from the initial recruitment for Dollar Stores and Family Dollar. Those have sat idle for me for a while.
The Jolly Rancher Recall started today. Check your email hags!

I have no idea what an email hag is, but I will log into their site and see if there's anything new.

Have synthesizers, will travel...

You should not be mentioning any recall information.
Product or store ! Per guidelines of RQA.
I have been a rep for 8 years now.
Delete the post.

I wonder if the initial recruitment posts were to help woo the client into using them for these types of projects.

"We have available reps to cover these areas within x days of the announcement."

Then when an actual project is out, you still have to get the assignments.
It's understandable to me to not auto-assign to a rep. If I was out of town, for example, I wouldn't want to be auto assigned 20 locations and then have to cancel/reject them, or scramble to get them done.

That said, for the latest frozen product, I had two stores that showed up in my area - both of them were released at different times (one the week of 10/17, the other was 11/1).

I had a couple of different batches from which to choose. Luckily someone else snagged the one location from the second round that made it tough to choose between the two payment methods. The other two were more remote but close to each other. I was able to knock them out in under 2 hours including drive time while taking the per location pay.

Have synthesizers, will travel...

How did the fruity popsicles go? There were four locations that were quite a bit of a drive from me. I thought about choosing the pay by time option, but I decided to pass on this round.

@Okie wrote:

How did the fruity popsicles go? There were four locations that were quite a bit of a drive from me. I thought about choosing the pay by time option, but I decided to pass on this round.

They’re very short and easy. Very minimal pics and no product to be found. Take the ‘per location’ if the distances are short.

The one location I picked up couldn't have been any easier - they didn't even sell the brand. I've got a dollar store location for this evening.

The locations offered to me were strange. One was at a drive-thru animal safari place, and the other was at a cafeteria inside a hospital. I didn't take either because I figured there'd be access issues because of my work hours.

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