Not taking ownership of your own job search is a red flag. Yes, but the author clearly has taken active steps to find a new job himself. I mean, the fact that

Not taking ownership of your own job search is a red flag. Yes, but the author clearly has taken active steps to find a new job himself. I mean, the fact that he got in touch with a company to help him search is already evidence of that, but as he later writes, he did find some part-time jobs at least by his own doing. I can sympathize with his reaction: what's the point of hiring a company to help you find a job when all they do is call you two months later to ask whether they're still needed? Of course, we only know his side of the story...