The Intersect Group reviews

Started out great and seemed like it had so much long term potential, BUT went downhill so fast. Leadership gave many false promises that changed while being in the role, such as a remote day and promotion timelines. Expectation went from 4-6 months to promotion in order to earn ONE remote day, to now being 1-2 YEARS to earn 1 remote day, that is if you last that long and IF you hit and hold high weekly $$ business for the company. Managers seem to actually despise remote work here and now avoid giving it if at all possible. They have minimal trust for their employees and prefer to micromanage your work in office instead. There has also been HIGH turnover in every location, yet leaderships seems to not be taking responsibility. Instead it appears they just blame the staff for not being good enough and missing out. Some offices have lost 80-90% of their staff this past year due to half getting fired and half quitting. The company has been losing employees weekly if not daily. Most employees are not lasting more than 1 year here. You'll be considered Senior if you last more than 1 year. For most, you either get fired for not being able to reach high enough goals on low quality reqs, or you quit due to being overworked, undervalued, and underpaid. They are also at the bottom of the market for salary & commission in staffing. I don't think you can find a competitor lower than what they offer. Nobody questions it initially because they only hire people brand new into staffing who don't know any better. That said, if you just need a job out of college for a year and have good charisma, you can get good basic training for recruiting and sales here. Otherwise, you should save yourself the time and look elsewhere.

Every single day and week was the same thing. There is TONS of internal competition, which leads to an unhealthy team mentality. The commission structure is also extremely biased towards upper management. As mentioned above, there is no reward for meeting KPI's over and over again. If anything, the reward comes when you make a placement. You ring a gong (cheesy!!) and then go back to work. You may get an extra $40 or so on your pay check but that's it. If you do not care about diversity this my be the place for you! The entire leadership board is ran by old, white men. Additionally, they have an outdated sales tactic where cold calls take priority. You have to have an extremely thick skin to be rejected over and over again, all day (100 cold calls/day is the MINIMUM). They try to target huge companies who have no idea who the Intersect Group is. On the recruiter side, your job is essentially to get people's hopes up then let them down when the client does not want to interview them. Even with a robust pipeline of quality candidates, I was constantly telling amazing people that 1. I did not have a requisition that applied to their experience or 2. that the client is pursuing other candidates (with little to no feedback as to why). If you can, I recommend applying to internal recruiting positions where there is less competition and hiring manager feedback is easily accessible. Also, it is a FULLY in person role when you could easily do the same exact work at home.