To many to write down.
1. Do not expect to ever trust your manager. (The one that posted on Dec, 21 2016 "Managing Director ATL") Expect to be pushed to manage your clients the way management wants and not the way any sane professional would build relationship with a client. When one does not act accordingly, do not be surprised if your "business partner" (managing director) calls your client without informing you. Go ahead and erase any business off the pipeline from that client because it is effectively ruined once that call takes place. Let the kids know they are only getting socks for Christmas because this will happen over and over again until you leave.
2. Hiring practices- For the love of God hire people that have a chance at success. This is a tough industry and a "pretty face and good personality" will not cut it. Maybe better coaching / hiring will keep the yearly turnover rate below 90%.
3. Coaching- First when hiring a recruiter/sales/full desk, especially if they fit the description above, train them. That should be common sense, but then again those reading this have never worked in the SNI office. Expect to be told how to do one thing, only to be told 2 weeks later you are doing it all wrong.
Environment- The building is nice and if you get a window seat you can spend about 3 hours a day trying to figure out how you can break it and jump out.... oh and don't forget the "buzz" its deafening I mean it's constantly going all day. And for clarification I'm not talking about the business buzz, I'm talking about the light over my desk that I thought was going to go out at any time. And if you like coffee!!!!....expect to bring in your own, because the office hasn't been in the black for a couple of months from what I hear.
Business practices--I am just going to copy from someone below.
"All the horrible things you hear about recruiting - all done here. Fake job postings, getting applicants to those fake jobs to come in and submit an application with their references so you can market SNI to those companies, pricing models that aren't based in reality..... All of these things are not only done here but, expected as part of your required activities. Encouraged and stressed as being critical to success.
There is absolutely zero focus on quality or caring for clients or candidates. It's "fill it and bill it". the worst possible approach to recruiting you can imagine.
Even suggesting that possibly some of these approaches might not be best for business gets you odd looks, war stories from people who've been "doing this for years!", and ultimately a curt demand to get with the program."
Now about the reality of the positive reviews for the past 2 days. Those are only there to combat the accurate terrible reviews from earlier in the month. See what happens is someone will post accurately, and then when the COO finds out he then yells down to the Managing Director" What the hell is this!!". Then the Managing Director writes her own review and asks other to write positive reviews as well.
So the ""I genuinely love what I do :)" post from below I can almost guarantee is from a newbie (not that everyone isn't a newbie considering the turnover) who just hasn't realized the reality of what they have gotten themselves into. For their sake I hope they realize it soon.
The "Managing Director" review is null and void for the reason it was posted as explained above. Of course she think's it is great. Every time someone gets fired she usually benefits monetarily by taking the commissions on what was coming in.(Kind of scary how close a firing can be to a client invoice being paid, but maybe that is just me over thinking....or is it...) Or when someone quits its an excuse to upper management of why the office was failing and now the "dream team is going to kill it".
Over all not a bad place to work right!!
