I worked for a placement agency. DST had a blacklist of former employees not eligible to re-hire. Kelly Holder had it in her desk drawer. Does DST still have a blacklist policy? Kelly gave me a copy but I misplaced it. It was many pages long with the "reason" for disliking the former employee. Seemed very petty to me.
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There is a "city wide" employment agency "blacklist". Recruiters all know each other, go to networking events, pass each other names of good candidates for referral fees. However if your a "bad apple" most all employment agencies will know that - even if you have not sent them an application. There is an "off the record" list that gets undated : showing all difficult, demanding, short termer, tempremental and unqualified candidates. So if you burn one recruiting firm by say walking off a job, or doing something the client doesn't like and getting axed -then your most likely on the blacklist. But then you probably know that as no employment agencies will respond to your resume.
You could get on a blacklist for doing practically nothing wrong. Most companies have them.
I work for a staffing firm. We refuse to hire anyone who works in I.T. development at DST. They are the worst. They can't even name the 4 divisions of a Cobol program. The customer service and admin assistants are very good.
Yes there was a list. I have a copy she gave me to. It was so we didn't screen, background check, submit and schedule interviews for people DST didn't want back. Once on the list. no part of DST would rehire. A lot of great people were on the list that were successfully placed at other clients all over KC. But it was DST's choice....