I would like to Thank Liz ! and the SmartTalent Agency as well for assisting me in a great time of need where I. needed to find a source of employment to continue to support myself and take care of my family and obligations. i was hired on the same day and had a very professional conversation with Liz discussing everything in detail about potential job opportunities opening up . It did not take long Because Liz is awesome ! I was back to work in no time and happy to be apart of SmartTalent !!!! so in closing I recommend Smart Talent Real Assistant and professional team to help you Win!!!!! read more

They were very unprofessional, I went & interviewed with them, did multiple tests only for them to tell me they have no positions open at the time & that they will follow up with me, i called weekly for 2 months & was cursed out by A Ms. Poa when i questioned them on why they have jobs listed on indeed but not in real life & then got hung up on. I would seriously recommend someone investigate these people read more

I had problems ,at another staffing agency with my background check,so they let me go.Then I applied at SmartTalent and they had work for me ,they accepted my record, because they have clients that will accept my record.I was so happy,God bless SmartTalent! If it wasn't for them and their policies,I would be unemployed, still searching for work. read more

Freaks! Wow, these people were weird. Or rather the dweeb who appeared to be overseeing the job agents was weird. They make you take ridiculous psych tests for HOURS. Like after three hours, I said 'look I have to go.' An entire YEAR later they called me out of the blue (while I was at work on a legit job) and asked me if I wanted to be a graveyard-shift security guard at a sanitation plant for $10/hr?! Whether you're looking for light industry/day labor or legit office work, do NOT waste your time with them. read more

Careful.... When you need work your time is valuable and in scarcity. Going here is like having a job application that you are filling out online crash on the final page. The staff is paid to hand a series of forms and describe 'employers' as being in need of the right 'candidate.' Having gone here twice without them being able to find any paper work I submitted via email or in person the two hour wait was met with you should apply through our website. The part that's the worse is the people who come in hoping for a job and get yank around until they leave forlorn and rejected. Times are tough. read more

I chose Smart Talent when I was deciding to temp because they had a ton of positions listed on Career Builder. I went to ST's website and filled out the application, where you also paste your resume. No one contacted me for a couple of days so I called them. They were very nice on the phone and arranged an interview for me a couple days later. Oddly, she wanted me to email my resume to her separately. That was fine. She did tell me on the phone that the registration process takes a couple of hours. Man, she wasn't kidding! They make you take this silly personality test based mainly around your views of illegal drugs and drug testing as well as attitudes on violence and honesty. Then you have to take a MS Word test, an Excel test, and a typing test. Then they give you a super brief interview. After asking me some basic interview questions she says that they are "working to generate more opportunities" but the most available position they have right now is doing outgoing calls for the Muscular Dystrophy Association." I don't mean to be snooty but I didn't register with a temp agency to be a telemarketer. The whole time I was taking my tests I could hear their sales guy in the office cold calling companies to try to find jobs for their agency. At the end of my interview I asked the woman in a low voice if there was actually any work available through their agency. She said it is extremely slow right now but they are working on it. So basically, no. Look, the economy is in the toilet. It's not necessarily their fault they don't have any work. (BTW I will update this review if they do find me work.) What I object to is their posting many positions on Career Builder that flat out don't exist. I think that's really dishonest. read more

After going thru their stupid testing, I got a job at the Centerlink and I had to wand people to make sure they didn't have any guns, and that was a joke because people were still able to walk on past me, and no bosses around to help with the problem. Then I get another job at Ontrac, a mail delivery service which has really bad reviews, anyway they sorted me on my check and didn't bother to help solve the problem, so I had to take things in my own hands and call the manager myself because the warehouse supervisor refused to look at the sign in sheets, I had to threaten them with L & I and they finally sent my check a week later, no apologies from them, LAME, don't work there read more

My son had been working at a few warehouse temp positions for Smart Talent in Renton. One morning he was assigned to work at a warehouse. The Smart Talent staff member/supervisor called him to ask if he had the T-shirt uniform that was required to work at this warehouse. He told the supervisor he did not have this T-shirt. She asked him to wait for her phone, while she looked into getting a T-shirt for him. He waited as instructed. When the phone call came, the Smart Talent supervisor was belligerent and unprofessional on the phone, demanding to know why he did not show up at the job. He told her she had asked him to wait for her phone call. The supervisor then told my son he would never be called to work at Smart Talent again. When he filed his claim with WA State Empolyment Security, stating he was fired, the Smart Talent lied, claiming my son had walked off the job. Now my son's unemployment benefits have been jeopardized thanks to Smart Talent's dishonesty. Be warned these people are dishonest and will use you as a scape goat! read more

I'm thinking you guys have never temped before? All temp agencies put dummy ads to get you in the door; they're jobs they had/heard of at some point but may/probably don't have right now. As far as the testing, ditto; it's always foolish but some clients like to see the results. Rachel -- on the telemarketer job, were you given any idea of payrate? I'm looking to move to Seattle and as a pro temp am interested in what's out there...Thanks for the info and Much Luck! read more

Make sure you read the contract!!! I was hired for a warehouse position and had to terminate my assignment after two days, due to an eviction I was forced to relocate out of state. Apparently the contract states that you MUST provide 1 weeks notice otherwise you may lose up to all of your pay. Instead of $14/hr that I hired for I received $9.04 and they made it clear that they didn't care about my situation. Thanks for nothing SmartTalent!!! read more

If I could rate this with 0 stars I would, that is how horrible my experience with them was. BEWARE of this listing and this agency!!! Last week (9/9/14) I went to interview for a job they listed on the WorkSource website (job #WS440908379 for an Order Processor/CSR), which by the way was just listed on 9/7/14. When I arrived the receptionist said that this wasn't their listing, I gave her the print out from the site and showed her that it was listed by SmartTalent and it listed the Renton-Office as the contact. She finally went to check with someone, I assume it was the "Clerical Recruiter" and she comes back and tells me that this isn't a "valid" listing and acknowledges that it seemed like false advertising. Which I definitely felt it was. I had to fill out an application and take an online assessment before I went in for the interview, which now I wish I had NEVER done, because I want NOTHING to do with this so- called agency. Immediately after leaving Smart???Talent I went directly to WorkSource to inform them of this and they are going to investigate. read more

I ONLY GAVE IT ONE STAR BECAUSE I WAS FORCED TO - I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS AGENCY TO ANYONE AND HERE IS WHY.I have been temping in the area for almost 10 years now. I signed up with this agency a few weeks ago because a good friend got a great permanent job from them. I started an assignment on 2/27/07 that I had been waiting for a couple of weeks for. It was my dream job, spending most of my time looking up websites and doing data entry. I felt my week went well, and was told nearly every single day by the person overseeing me that I was doing a great job and keep up the good work. On my way out the door Friday, I made a point to ask her if I was doing a good job. She said yes and that if there was a problem, she would tell me. I left Friday feeling really good and feeling maybe I had finally found what could be a great permanent job. Well, next thing I know less than an hour after I got off work, I get two phone calls from SmartTalent telling me that "someone" had told the boss that there were concerns and problems with my performance and should I be placed somewhere else? I was so completely shocked I could hardly say anything. I was crushed. Talk about getting the rug yanked out from under my feet! I sent my contact at SmartTalent my email resignation as soon as I got home. My contact at SmartTalent when he finally did call me on Monday made it clear he couldn't care less what my side of the issue was and didn't have time to hear it. I have never worked with an agency that didn't want to talk to me about how an assignment was going and how I was feeling about it. One of the other temps on the assignment told my that there was high turnover at that job. At first, I thought it was the nature of the work, even though I liked it. Now I know differently. read more

I will never talk to anyone from smart talent ever again. I was asked to come in for an interview for a machinist position and that it would take some time because I'd need to fill stuff out. I show up a few minutes early as I always do and the office was empty. I waited and someone finally came out of a back office and had me sit at the computer and fill out their application (she also mentioned the computers were having problems). After finish the application I got up and the office was empty once again and I waited for about 15 min for her to come back and tell me "now I need you to take a test on the computer". I'm fine with that most CNC machinist jobs require it because they don't want to give you a $250k machine if you don't know what you're doing. The computer kicked me out half way through the test and deleted everything so I again looked for a smart talent employee only find there wasn't one. I chose to leave because I obviously wasn't wanted there which is sad because I wanted the job and the shop probably would have wanted me being a certified CNC machinist that came out of school with honors and a 3.8 grade point average. When I got home she had sent me an email telling how wrong I was for leaving and how she couldn't believe I showed up in jeans and a cotton shirt (standard machinist attire and what the instructors at schools will tell you to wear both at work and for interviews). I explained my side of the story and she went on the defense and said they were in a meeting and there computers have no problems and added a few more insults. I mentioned that the person who set me up on the computer told me they were having issues and I also made note that it's bad practice to set appointments with people at the the same time you have a meeting scheduled at which point she just went to insulting me and I stopped talking to her. read more