When you do your half day, they are pretty upfront with you on how the job will look and they do a good job of letting you know what you’re signing up for. The part that they don’t tell you is how long you will be a recruiter for. Coming from a sales background, I made it very clear the reason I’m joining this company is because of the opportunity to grow as an account manager down the road. I understand how everyone in the company starts out as a recruiter and can work their way up, but once you get the hang of the business, and start growing your spread so that leadership will start to consider you for a “promotion”, you have to choose between giving up what you built for a year n half or start from scratch(take a pay cut) and basically start an entirely new job. I don’t agree with this method because it isn’t a promotion, it’s a new career. Promotions typically increase your income and grow your career, and yes over time being an AM you have more opportunity to grow both, but you start over completely from zero. If the company has sales people that they’ve hired as recruiters, you will continue to lose them because this job isn’t special, it’s like any other average 40k job, you don’t need a degree to do it, you don’t need specific training, it’s just a normal job.
