Kelly reviews

3.7

73% would recommend to a friend

(6,852 total reviews)
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Chris Layden

83% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Kelly has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,852 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kelly employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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1.0
Jul 12, 2014

Kelly Connect - Apple Care (not for me)

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Pros

The only pros is a work at home..

Cons

1) Training is really vague, no practice during training with the system with diferent scenarios. 2) After training you start with somthing they called "ramp", ramp is basically receive calls with no practice of the system, no practice of the scenarios, with the team leader and other experience representative in the chat, that dont wotk and effective in that way. Im a experiece call center representative with a lot of years of experience and this is the first tims that I see this. 3) No benefits 4) No PTO 5) No vacations or sick days 6) You will work under contract and temp always, and Apple never will hire you. 7) Very Low pay, $10.00 an hour. 8) You need to pay the mouse, keyboard, training headset, work headset and ethernet cable for $150.00 dollars, they divide this in three payments. 9) If you dont have a phone service in your house, you need to request a phone line exclusive for work, and Kelly dont help you to pay the instalation and the monthly fee of the phone ( at your own expenses). 10) You need REALLY high speed internet ( at your own expenses). 11) I read that Kelly Connect have a very high turn over 12) You start full time (40 hours), but when you start in "production" gonna have less hours.

1.0
Jul 11, 2014
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Pros

The training was great. Kelly Learning Center always had new classes and the instructors cared about their students. The HRIS system Kelly uses is great for day to day tasks.

Cons

Many of the individuals you will work with are extremely unprofessional- sending you inappropriate chat messages, saying inappropriate things to candidates (ie: how old are you), favoritism is huge. The pay is very low. There is almost no chance to get promoted and you do pretty much the same thing every single day. Bonuses happen, but it's based on your branch's income. If the branch doesn't do well (ie: isn't in an area with lots of clients, or the BDR doesn't get many new clients), you won't get a bonus no matter how hard you work. Contrary to what other reviewers stated, the work life balance is terrible. If you are firing someone you've placed at a customer, you need to wait until after their shift to call them and let them go. As much as I understand why this has to happen, it is not appropriate to have to call an employee from your home at midnight when their shift lets out. Unless you are a technical recruiter, the individuals you are placing are horrendous. Most of them are on unemployment and could care less about the job you put them in. They call you from their I Phones, saying they "need a job to prove to unemployment that they're looking". You literally couldn't pay me enough to go back to this job.

4.0
Jul 10, 2014

Great Temp Agency!

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Pros

I've been placed quickly and at good companies. I feel like they work hard to get me good pay and reasonable hours.

Cons

Once you're working, I feel like there's not much contact. I called the office, just yesterday, and she didn't even know if I was still working at the company they set me up at, in January (which I am).

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