1. Pay and "draw" system.
You essentially pay them to work here. They give you a base salary, but require you to pay them back every two weeks through the possible commission that you earn. That amount is 2200 every TWO WEEKS. So if you cannot make a sale (placement of a candidate) in that time - you know are -4400 when you are to receive your commission check.
2. More about this - You also have to pay them 500 (or 250 every two weeks) due to the "tool" costs. Gpac actually deducts 250 from your bi-weeky paycheck to pay for basic tools to be able to do the job. This isn't optimal. I actually used my own laptop, keyboard, mouse, and monitor and sent there's back within a week of me starting. I was still told I must "pay the tool cost.)
3. The culture - They have this way of attempting to bully or scare you. While working here, I was threatened that I may be fired around 27 times. I counted. It could be from things you forget to do, or were never told about. Every conversation with my supervisor (regional manager as they call it,) always had this condescending tone to it. I actually had to challenge them several times based on the way they attempting to treat me. In short instead of trying to coach and train, they attempt to scare you or threaten you as if this is the most immaculate job in the world.
4. People do not last here. They have an extremely high turnover rate. Meaning people are fired. However more importantly they have one of the highest attrition rates I have ever seen. Meaning people just flat out quit. My training class was nearly 40 people strong. Day one 5 people quit. By the time training was over 18 quit. I could confirm this because their company profile was blacked out and marked as "deactivated." People leave once they explain the commission structure and you learn it is against you.
5. The training experience - You actually start off in the negative upon completion of training. It was about a month long. So right after it ended they explained the draw system actually starts WHILE IN TRAINING. So you're around -4400 right out of training. Imagine landing a placement/sale and they take -4400 from it then take away state taxes on top of having to pay them 250 every two weeks from your "salary."
6. Lack of professionalism - I touched on this a bit, but due to the fact they hire around 20 people every two weeks, they do not care about assisting people make their first placement. They simply threaten you and quite frankly, insult you. I had to adjust several peoples tone when they attempted to speak down to be during one on ones. It was like being in grade school again.
7. More on this - One good thing I liked was they had you assist more seasoned recruiters/search consultants with placing their prime candidates. That or helping them place candidates you surface at companies who have signed with gpac and need the right candidate. It was a good way to get your feet wet. However, upon assisting I realized senior recruiters often left out vital information about job orders. Such as if the job offers insurance, the pay, etc. It is lying. And without letting you know what the company you will be placing someone into is like, it puts you in a position to lie by omission. That is a gross way to treat people just trying to get a job in this market.
8. Misrepresenting things to candidates - Gpac oporates by having their recruiters post and maintain "100 job postings across all platforms" monthly. These jobs are not real. They have you post them in order to get honest people to send in their application/resumes so you can them pitch them on the idea of their ideal job and position, then find a company that would be willing to take them on. It is dishonest because that assist the growing plague of "ghost jobs." Jobs that are not actually real. Every job site is plagues with them. Since gpac has all recruiters doing this, that could potentially be hundred of thousands of jobs across the (what 45) different industries gpac operates in. That is terrible for people who need real jobs.
9. Forcing recruiters to post FAKE reviews - I actually wrote an extensive review a month ago that did not disclose any proprietary information about gpac. It was deleted by GD or gpac potitioned them to delete them which is terrible.
Upon working here a few months I noticed more and more glaring red flags coming up, so I started to look up reviews. The most telling were the ones posted on gpac's G double O site profile. Since I could see the profiles of my peers when I worked there, noticed all of the people who left positive reviews where either fired or quit. Their accounts were put on "deactivated." and greyed out. Some of the people claimed to have a great experience, but weren't with the company and I could see they were there for a short amount of time.
I also saw reviews where people claimed to being bullied into posting positive reviews on this company. I think people not with the company leaving reviews roughly around the time they started, then I could see they quit or had to "part ways" is telling their reviews held no true merit. Otherwise they would still be with the company themselves. I could see this because reviews on G double O site requires a gmail. Most professionals provide a gmail that has their first and last name. So I could just look up my co-workers in the company system and nearly every single one quit or were let go shortly after starting.
10. I left this to make people aware of what you're getting into if you try to work here. So many companies are not transparent about their culture.
