1. As a first year staff, I received very little training and the little training I did received was on the job training. No formal training when I got hired. Just first-day orientation, and I was sent to the client on my 2nd day.
2. Once you're assigned to a client, you're mostly stuck with that client the entire time. You can be easily niched into a specific industry before you even know it.
3. Had few construction clients, medical clients, and financial service clients at my location, but the clientele was 80% government and non-profit. And if you don't speak out which specific client you want immediately want then most likely you're stuck on government and nonprofits.
4. If you didn't know the employees before working there, or didn't do an internship with them prior, you're mostly stuck on your own. They won't pick you up on any jobs despite how many times you asked, no matter how many times you sent out an availability email, and they will play favoritism VERY fast.
5. As a first year staff, you're expected to make mistakes. However, if you do make mistakes, depending on your partner, you can forget about working for that partner ever again. Which is very sad considering you're a FIRST YEAR STAFF.
6. As a first year staff, very little chance to prove yourself if you didn't know anyone at the company prior to getting hired. You can easily be stuck constantly in limpo, not having any clients assigned to despite numerous upon numerous attempts of reaching out. While your fellow staff, who either had an internship or knew someone at the company before working, are assigned to numerous jobs. You're then sitting there wondering why your colleagues are getting so much opportunity to grow, yet you're just sitting there doing nothing despite constantly begging every single manager and senior for work.
-As a first year staff, it is very hard to improve on one's mistakes and weaknesses without giving the chance to improve upon them.
