Pros
Recruiters and account managers get to travel across the country for various trade shows. When the market is good, management is positive and helpful, but also arrogant and snobbish. Income potential is quite high. But it remains potential; it never comes to fruition for most.
Cons
This office deals with only one service line, and the market for it is absolutely saturated. Favoritism is rampant. Rules are bent for certain chosen ones. Only select employees are permitted to work from home, even though that luxury is afforded to the consultants we never met. One particular employee was hired and immediately gifted with the biggest and most lucrative accounts. Bafflingly, management then continued to praise her as if she had done it all herself. When one longtime employee left our team for another, TEN of her consultants were gifted to one struggling (yet seasoned) employee. Management is unfair with distributions of territory and excess consultants. The office is very chatty, which makes it difficult for work to get done. My requests to move desks and/or work from home were ignored. There is no movement whatsoever into promotion. Every day is the same. The job is repetitive and mind-numbing. There is no work-life balance at all. 15 days of PTO annually is not nearly enough to recuperate. When someone resigns, those within the company take it personally and do not speak to the former colleague again.