Robert Half reviews

The system is designed so that you will, ultimately, fail. If you make enough phone calls, you weren't out in the field meeting clients...if you met enough clients, you didn't do interviews with potential temps/hires...if you did enough interviews, you didn't close enough deals...if you closed enough deals, you didn't get enough margin on the deals (as defined by the corporate formula, not by current market conditions)...even if you do ALL that and with some luck get some gang-buster clients and are making good money for the company and yourself, management will reshuffle your book of business so you stay hungry. The focus on sales vs. recruitment has been an evolving trend with the company, so where they used to value putting the right people in the right engagements, they now tend to focus on "just fill it and we'll replace the person if it doesn't work out" tactics. There is also a trend to make the top salespeople into Division Directors, but then they just end up competing with their own staff for deals because the extra $ you get as a manager doesn't compensate for the loss in personal productivity.

Accountemps is not so great if you are at a higher level. For Senior Accountants and Accounting Managers, you should use Management Resources ()MR). The only irritation I have is that I was not told about MR right away and thought all temp work went through Accountemps. I only found out about MR when I was talking to someone about permanent placement.