Overworked and underpaid - Senior Technical Recruiter Robert Half Employee Review

1.0
Apr 16, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, good paid time off, etc

Cons

Underpaid. Period. Their compensation plan pays about the same commission as other places but without the benefit of a base salary. Sure you have a "base" (expect 50k as Sr tech recruiter) but you won't see a penny more until your commission exceed that base whereas anywhere else you're making your base plus commission from your first placement. Probably not a big deal if you're a superstar with 20-25 billables, but it takes 15 syllables just to cover your base/draw. Compared to the average commission plan in staffing out there, you'll be making 35k less at those 15 billables. Do the math before signing. Probably not a bad place to learn staffing, but definitely no place for a truly Sr. Recruiter. Again, commission is about the same but without the benefit of a salary underneath it. Expect to be underpaid, micromanaged and forced to work under archaic conditions (wear a suit, everybody must come in office, etc.) as well as held to metrics that don't mean anything such as number of interviews or hours billed rather than dollars of profit made. It is a culture of fear. And, yeah, believe the other reviews about turnover and know the odds are 60% you won't be here a year later either willingly or unwillingly.

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Pros

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Cons

You have the worst comp plan out of any other big recruiting company. Upper management promotes hostile work environments by discussing firing people and taking commissions from those that they are supposed to be training, this is in front of everyone in the bull pin. I have also been retaliated against when trying to give feedback, they won’t help and will try and get you to quit if you give any negative feedback. The sales team has gone from 10 people to less than 5 in less than 2 years and they are letting people train and hire that are later demoted months later. I would stay far away from here and would only use this job as a stepping stone much better opportunity is elsewhere. Never work for Garry or Zach.

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