Most of my two years I hated it but I don’t regret it! - Recruiter Aerotek Employee Review

As most people say, the hours! You get to work around 7:15 - 7:30 AM because you have to be fully prepared to go for your meeting at 8 AM sharp every day. Getting prepared for that main morning meeting involves meeting with your manager, your partner recruiter, getting your goals for the day, etc. So there’s no leeway there. It’s very obvious if you’re unprepared for the meeting because everyone has to talk about their goals for the day in front of the whole office. Then you leave around 6 PM at the very earliest but seriously most nights are 7/7:30. You’re only making around 50k after the training period, so that’s means your making a really bad hourly rate when you think about it... You do make commission but it’s not super easy to attain and it’s SO unreliable and 100% based on your people showing up to work at the jobs you’ve placed them in. One day they’re out sick takes money right out of your pocket. Another con is the management/leadership. People are promoted too soon in their career into leadership roles and people ONLY start there right out of college. Most people have never managed other people before and now they’re in charge of two brand new recruiters who are starting right out of college. It’s a bad cycle. Poor leadership styles are passed down like that. Truthfully everything is more of a popularity contest (and that’s sales anyway, but it makes it a tough, cliquey environment) than anything. One of the hardest parts of the job is that (depending on what division you’re in) most of your contractors that you put to work are people who make $10 an hour and they’re completely unreliable. When they don’t show up to work, your butt is on the line. Get ready to be berated by your manager for it when you have no way to make that person go to work. I saw this with every manager, not just my own. It’s the company. They blame you for it because they have to blame someone. This happens daily. Additionally, before that 8 AM meeting I was talking about, you are also returning calls from all the people who are calling off work for the day, or you’re calling out to people who were supposed to be at work an hour ago and you’re finding out they never showed up. That brings me to another big con. Even when the day is done or it’s the weekend, you’re still working. You are forced to add your work email to your cell phone and keep a constant eye on it. You are required to call people from your cell phone at 9 at night when they get off work from their current job to make sure they’re going to their interview in the morning and are fully prepared. You are ALWAYS working. You don’t get to have a break to clear your head. You have to consistently check your email every hour or so when at home to make sure you don’t have any emails or voicemails that are letting you know something is going on with one of your contractors that you need to fix and then probably let your manager know about as well. Another con is the amount of hoops you have to jump through to get a promotion. In my office it was common that when you wanted to be promoted, you needed to meet with each manager in the office for a one on one lunch so they could tell you what they think of you (and it was never positive). I watched so many people go through it and be berated that I never cared to do it. I wanted to get as much knowledge as I could and get the heck out of there.