No work/life balance, but if you're dead-set on making money you'll advance. - Recruiter Aerotek Employee Review

3.0
Dec 3, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

office outings are fun, you'll rarely get bored because most jobs are pretty different. If making money is your motivation you'll do fine. Lots of opportunity for lots of money to be made.

Cons

There is absolutely no work/life balance. You will work 60 hours a week without overtime and feel guilty for leaving before anyone else. Recruiters are seen as expendable and when someone leaves or gets fired it's like they were never there. Everything is sales and money focused. If you don't want to do sales and/or are not money driven this is not the place for you. The nature of the business requires people to be treated as a commodity.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Oct 30, 2015
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Pros

Great people, great training, great entry level opportunity to get into recruiting and sales. If you are successful you will make more here than about anywhere else. Performing Recruiters are making $55k-$75k. Great Recruiters are making $100k+. Every large office has salespeople making $200k-$400k. Culture is 100% committed and generally cool type-A's you would want to have a beer with. The skills, drive, and sense of urgency you learn at Aerotek serve you well anywhere you may go later.

Cons

If you are just looking for a low-commitment 8-5 job while posting on social media about where you are partying that night...you will not like Aerotek. Success requires an all in approach both in work ethic and active support of the culture. That is not for everyone. There are Political Science grads 3 years out of college making $200k+, but there is a price to be paid. All the tough work comes first. If you are not up for the level of work and commitment, Aerotek is not for you. If you are, none of this is really a "con" As far a real cons go, the benefits are only OK, and finding work/life balance is pretty difficult.

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