Lakeshore

Lakeshore is a small time player with small minded people. Their so called sorry excuse for «managers» are complete jerkoffs. I can’t say enough bad things about these guys. Worthless. Do not waste your time with these idiots. They used to have good people working for them several years ago and now the good ones are all gone — all they have left are contemptful and rude people. Move on… there’s nothing to see here folks…

I can honestly say that I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for Lakeshore. I’d tried other temp agencies but was never treated as well and with such personal interest as I was at Lakeshore.
I’ve been a temp for two different periods in my life. One was over six years ago. I temped for them for over a year through many different assignments, and I was regularly given work. They knew I was reliable and they could count on me to treat the client as though I was extension of their company. That entire time I was looking for a permanent position, and they were able to get work for me regularly. Eventually a job opened up that was a great fit for my experience and where I wanted to go that happened to be at a company I had temped for previously. The company was filling the position through Lakeshore, and the company knew they like having me when I was a temp. So, I was a shoe in! I got the job, got experience, and got promoted into different positions within different departments.
Flash forward five years. I find myself in a different job that eventually became a completely wrong fit for me. In December of 2009, I left that job with no plan other than trying to temp for work again. I called several connection and had called multiple placement and temp companies including Lakeshore. Two months later a job came up that Lakeshore knew was a good fit for me, and that I would be a good fit for the company. I was hired for the position after doing the job on a temp to perm position for a short time.
Here it is a year later since I’ve been hired, I’m extremely happy to be in the job I am since it is still a great fit, and I love working there. I owe this to Lakeshore.
There are a number of temp companies in Chicago. There are also A LOT of temps looking for work right now. Lakeshore sets themselves apart by the effort they take to find the right job for the right person and vise versa.

It’s sad, because I temped for Lakeshore a few years back and they were wonderful. There used to be a great woman there, Mimi, who got temp work for a bunch of my friends and me when we were fresh out of grad school. Alas, Mimi left and the place went straight into the toilet.
I went to Lakeshore this winter when I found myself out of work and waiting for admissions info from grad school. I met with a young woman who was (admittedly) not my favorite person ever, but seemed okay enough. She assured me that they’d try to find me something, but when I told her my salary requirement was $ 14/​hour (i.e., what they paid me in 2006) she informed me this was not an option. Said that their positions typically topped out around $ 12, but $ 10 or $ 11 was more likely. I was flabbergasted! Anyway, she never got me a job, although she called with a few last-​minute, totally subpar assignments that were going to pay beans. No thanks, Lakeshore. Gotta wonder if and/​or how places like this are going to stay in business in these rocky economic times… Or if they even deserve to.

Wasted my time sending me to a job that wasn’t open anymore. No apology from the company or my manager or anything.

Nothing came out of trying this place. When I went I fit more than one job, but I never got an interview at any of them.

This place is awesome! I was out of a job when I first got out of college and Lakeshore helped me to find temporary work as well as also sending me out on interviews for full time jobs. I think they do a great job of helping their clients out and I would highly recommend them to everyone. Ask for Agnes Bill-​she did a great job of helping me out!

I don’t understand this agency. They tell me that my tested typing speed of well over 100wpm is «unheard of,» but when I keep calling back to ask about temp assignments, they don’t have any available. My guess is that some of us college graduates desperate for work should have these agents’ jobs. They certainly aren’t doing them well.