Recruiter - Technical Recruiter TEKsystems Employee Review

1.0
May 27, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to learn how to recruit and the demands of the industry. I worked with some of the most talented people in the industry I have ever met.

Cons

The greatest problem facing TekSystems is that there is no one in upper management who has worked anywhere besides TekSystems. When things don't go well (like losing market share for the first time in their core staffing offering in the history of the organization this year) there are no ideas as to how to address the changes and challenges of the industry because they have no experience other than their own. This results in "we just need to do what we do more and harder and come in earlier and stay later" which only works on 22 year olds who don't know any better. This is why they admit they don't like hiring anyone with outside experience, because that person will have ideas that challenge the Tek culture. Of course a few young people come in and do great, usually because of alignment and luck and not because of any inherently better work ethic or intelligence, and they move up. The majority, though, move out. And warning, don't plan on going to another IT staffing company after working for Tek because they have a group of lawyers on retainer to just attack small business and try to use their size and money to stifle competition...again because they have no new ideas of how to do their actual jobs better.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

- Decent pay to start. - Account manager is responsive, engaging, and a serious advocate for you and your contract. - Gain access to Udemy Business to build more skills.

Cons

- The benefits suck. - High recruiter turnover with highly variable experience trying to work with them-- some are good, most are not. - Once you are placed, you will be promised regular meetings and then never hear from the recruiter again. - Trying to find a new contract if you are unhappy with your current placement is nearly impossible and I don't believe they are incentivized to help you move at all. - You have to manually request a raise and depending on how you negotiated your contract, you may or may not have the ability to receive one. - There is a cap to how much they will pay you for the contract so even if you work that position 4 years, once you hit that cap you are stuck. I originally submitted my resume with TekSystems when I had finished my degree and never heard back. Many years later, I was approached on LinkedIn by a TekSystems recruiter for a position and he had no idea I was in the system previously. Working with him was good, and I did get the position. Then I never heard from him again and I've had 4 or 5 different recruiters whose names I could not tell you if I tried since then. There's supposed to be monthly calls, they never happen.

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