Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I’m in rematch now after feeling pressure to quickly match and settling for someone I had reservations about. If you thought CCAP was bad this summer, it’s worse now. I am completely done with them and advise everyone to stay away. Switching to another agency even if I have to eat my fee.

What happened??

Nothing new— just the same high stakes competition for matching and lots of declines like described above— but looking at in country only so the pool of minimally qualified APs is staggeringly small. I reach out to people who are barely passable and still get turned down. And I’m in this situation because of their failure to screen for candidates that don’t falsify their applications ?.

CCAP has basically told me too bad, so sad, they know this is a problem but don’t know why, maybe try facebook (why are my fees paying these “matching specialists” if the matching is all DIY now?).
And then — AND THEN— the ENTIRE ccap staff went on retreat last week together and left no responsible people in the office to keep up with processing paperwork. So those of us in our two week window are SOL.
My LCC has been working her networks and we are using Facebook but I’m about ready to switch agencies even if it means losing money.

CCAP is just bloody awful. The candidates are sub-par, the staff at the main office are super entitled and gaslight you, and the LCCs that I"ve had are basically doing this as a super side gig. I am so happy I switched.

Anonymous wrote:Well I’m in rematch now after feeling pressure to quickly match and settling for someone I had reservations about. If you thought CCAP was bad this summer, it’s worse now. I am completely done with them and advise everyone to stay away. Switching to another agency even if I have to eat my fee.

What happened??

Well I’m in rematch now after feeling pressure to quickly match and settling for someone I had reservations about. If you thought CCAP was bad this summer, it’s worse now. I am completely done with them and advise everyone to stay away. Switching to another agency even if I have to eat my fee.

I just match through the facebook groups. I have profiles set up with CCAP and API and APA. This year I scrambled to sign up with CHI, as that is where we found a match. I also prefer to match with incountry. I find the "onboarding to American live" so exhausting and I like getting an AP with an existing drivers license and track record driving in the US.

You can find APs via these FB groups when they are thinking about rematch or well ahead of their extension year.

Anonymous wrote:I hate to say it but I now see how the perks play in as people have been saying. After connection we have a standard thank you email, general info and questions. We have been at about 66-75% response rate within 48 hours of them accepting our connection request and the generic email.

For the recent intro email, I added in the fact we pay for gym membership, a link to the small luxury SUV that is our AP's dedicated car and a couple other things and last 3 connections replied within hours asking to skype.

We have an easy gig, 2 school aged kids; walk to clarendon metro/bars and it CCAP seems to be getting harder and harder each year.

Even though our "perks" are in our profile putting it in the email seems to be the difference.

So how is this working out for you this year?

We also found matching through Cultural Care so much more time consuming and a a hassle this year. Thinking of switching to APIA.