Diversant reviews about "training program"

Sometimes I didn't have a senior person to go with me on the meetings but that just meant they were out getting new business as well.

Negative & toxic work environment including the leadership, divisive office environment (recruiters vs sales), NO work perks... crappy health insurance and no work perks. Only work perk was car allowance which was taken away unless top performer for the company, now its based on mileage, guilt tripping for taking PTO (which doesn’t roll over in the new year), and tuition reimbursement only applies to those with related degrees. Saw a review that said the company is “top heavy” so accurate. There’s too many leaders NOT leading... if you like being micromanaged, definitely take a job at Diverant. Oh, and the training program is a joke. The leadership here likes to listen to themselves talk.

No big downsides at this time. It takes time to ramp up our own book of business and develop relationships, but the payoff is worth it. This is also more true for this type of role than the company itself.

Can be tedious at times. Like most sales jobs, it has it's ups and downs. Not much of a growth plan except for growth of more money or become an office manager.

no cons come to mind

They are just trying to hire anyone to build clients.

12 people have left the Denver office since January 2019, including the GM. I don't know if they got a new GM since I left. The fact that the GM left was detrimental to my experience, as there was no one who actually knew how to teach me what I was supposed to be doing. This is a recruiting job, so there is also a lot of pressure (and I mean a LOT) to get candidates into job openings, which encourages manipulation and dishonesty. (Note: manipulation and dishonesty are NOT company wide values. Because this is a training program, who you get paired with to help you with daily questions has a huge impact on what you learn and how you are expected to perform. The person I was paired with had no problem trying to schmooze and manipulate candidates to make himself more money. Not my style.) Plus, working 70-80 plus hours in this job is normal, and once you get out to the training program, you don't get overtime. DO NOT COME HERE if you want a work life balance. The pressure to perform is too intense.

I was hired as an AMT (Account Manager Trainee) in January. We were paid around $14/hr, plus 7.5 hours of OT, with the promise that after completion of the program in May, we would receive a 2k bump and become salaried, $100 monthly cell phone allowance and $400 monthly car allowance (both untaxed). Midway through the program, senior leadership decided to end it and implement a recruiting training program where you had to hit certain milestones to be promoted to Account Manager. Based on the average employee’s performance, this would take around 8-12 months. Not only did they screw us over financially, it also took senior leadership another month to present said milestones, and even then there were many unanswered questions, such as what our job titles were. If that doesn’t scream “we don’t care about our employees,” I don’t know what does. We were set up for failure from the beginning. For most of my time there, we weren’t treated as recruiters or AMTs, we were “sourcers”; meaning we submitted candidates to jobs where we had no relationship with the hiring manager and therefore would never get feedback or see commission from it. By the time I quit in April, nearly half of the AMTs who began in January had quit, and nearly half of the Charlotte office had quit or were fired. Management will lie about why employees leave the company in order to create the perception that the miserable culture is due to employees’ performance, rather than upper management’s complete lack of empathy for their employees. The culture is “churn and burn”; senior leadership explicitly tells hardworking employees to leave if they are unhappy. Management also hires their friends rather than qualified employees. If you’re set on going into staffing, know that turnover is inevitable. High turnover is not. Other staffing firms will pay you a base of 40k instead of 35k without making false promises. The positive ratings on Glassdoor are driven partially by consultants, but mostly by senior leadership asking employees to write positive reviews.