I used to be very skeptical of job placement agencies. As a matter of fact, I have never been much of a fan of them. Ever since my days temping for the Adecco employment agency, I have seen job placement companies as a miserable option of last resort – much like suicide. Isn't that job placement agency jobs don't pay well – sometimes they do. The problem is that there are no organizations that are more likely to jerk you around. When you work for a job placement agency, you are putting yourself at the mercy of thousands and thousands of incompetent managers. Perhaps they will call you and hire you for a contract job only to forget about it at the last minute, canceling the contract and not bothering to tell you.