First and foremost it’s a call mill. You’re making cold calls all day to unsuspecting companies hoping that one of them will somehow need the type of candidate you are marketing. This inevitably leads to anger on part of the company as you’re essentially a door to door salesman bothering then during work hours. Be prepared to be yelled at and hung up on a lot if you manage to get someone on the phone at all.
There is an emphasis on “fishing”. Meaning you will contact companies “selling” candidates that don’t actually exist to trick them into signing the gpac agreement under the guise that you will then send that person over to them. If that somehow works you’re then told to tell them that that person already accepted another job but I’ll go out and find someone like them. This works the other way as well by contacting individuals with fake job orders and if they’re interested you’re told to tell them the position was already filled. AKA ITS A SCAM.
When I heard the words “search consultant” I was immediately concerned as titles like that or “account executive” are given to low level employees to attach some unearned importance. Those typically follow scam businesses to assign false legitimacy to their operation. But, against my better judgment I continued on with this company anyway. You should ALWAYS be concerned when a company is always hiring. The turnover rate is extremely high. Your coworkers will change monthly if not weekly.
Into the specifics: the immediate leadership or “coaches” put all their emphasis on arbitrary metrics. Meaning your success and effort is not measured by the connections or placements you make but by the busy work you record. All they want to see is that you have made a certain amount of calls, sent a certain amount of bulk emails or “bulks”, send a certain amount of LinkedIn messages etc. THATS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT and that’s all they want you to do.
This would all be fine if it didn’t result in “gaming the system” and suggestions from the coaches to fake a lot of what was being done. Make cold calls, log in fake send outs (interviews) so they can hit their number for the day. As long as you make those calls it doesn’t matter what happens. You could call fake phone numbers all day as long as you made a lot of them they were happy.
Any success an individual recruiter has will be because of their own methods which 9 times out of 10 do not involve any of the metrics the coaches are concerned with. If you ARE somehow successful at making a placement get ready to be responsible for collecting the fee from the hiring authority. That’s right it’s THE INDIVIDUAL Recruiters responsibility to collect the fee for gpac. So after you’ve just spent weeks facilitating a relationship between two professional parties you then have to make the call yourself demanding the money. Not only is that entirely inappropriate for a recruiter to do it’s well outside the realm of something a recruiter is ABLE to do. Gpac has a legal team, an hr department, it department, customer service etc, by no means should collections fall to the recruiter. Additionally, the coaches will congratulate you on a placement and in the same sentence tell you to keep making calls and line up more sendouts. Top to bottom this whole operation is a toxic disaster.
