gpac reviews

1. You are expected to work all the time. Told to be scrolling linked in throughout the evening, told to send messages on linked in around 8-9 PM for best results, expected to answer incoming calls after hours and if you don’t you are just told that you don’t want it bad enough. 2. Extremely inflexible no matter how much they advertise positions as being flexible. I was threatened to be fired on multiple occasions for attending necessary medical appointments, including OB appointments throughout my pregnancy, even though notes could be provided. The inability to pick my kids up from school or take them to/attend their activities due to work was extremely frustrating. I would get extreme anxiety if my kids were sick over having to call out because they frequently just fire people for various reasons. 3. It’s very very difficult for newer recruiters to get an “in”. Most tenured recruiters are so wrapped up in their own things or working on other tenured recruiters searches that they don’t want to help you. Turn over is so incredibly high that they see helping new people as a waste of their time because they likely won’t make it past a month or two. 4. It seems no matter what you do it’ll never be good enough in the eyes of Gpac. I was fairly successful in my time there (cashed in around 100k in my first year) and it was still not enough… you’ll never be making enough calls, sending enough emails, bringing in enough cash, connecting with enough people etc. . Some of the coaches were nice, helpful, and encouraging but a lot of them lack empathy/compassion and their “well-meaning” sentiments are degrading and derogatory. 5. It just feels shady sometimes.. it seems a lot of coaches and recruiters think they aren’t lying if they just omit details or truths and I morally couldn’t get on board. 6. The compensation is not good unless you are a tenured recruiter with well established clients… after taxes, tool cost, and benefits you are making about 2k/month (that you owe back to them when you make commission) and working at minimum 50 hours/week. The dream they sell is that eventually you’ll have your own established clients and you won’t be in the draw and you’ll have a ton of flexibility but from what i saw with my time at the company very few newer recruiters accomplish this even with putting in tons of effort and following the steps provided during training.

Working here is very difficult. Every search consultant that is supposed to be your teammate in helping others find opportunities seem to be in it for their own accords and will backstab you without warning. The general rule of thumb when dealing with the people you connect with is you have 2 weeks or less to retain constant communication with them otherwise anyone can steal them from you (this is enforced). The training is not very good because they hire hundreds of new recruiters every training period (every month or less) and the recruiters are thrown to the wolves. Not only is there almost no one on one teaching but most recruiters who attempt their best are let go and don’t make it. Part of this is because most are left to fend for themselves because they are expected not to last. Anyone who you do end up working with as a professional recruiter (split deals) will most likely and very well could not be employed the next day, regardless of the production set in motion with that person. There is special treatment given to some recruiters and not to everyone. Some recruiters are handed companies and candidates to immediately begin making placements with and others are forced to create their own by their own means, which is many more hard working hours, more tedious cold calling, and less supplied than those given special treatment. This is at the sole discretion of management. GPAC is money oriented and interested in money as its root motivation to succeed. They are extremely greedy. The pay is the most horrendous structure I have ever seen that is designed to assist in not success but failure. There is a draw which is given as a loan and this is your pay whether you are able to make a placement or not. If you do not make commissions (placements) you see this as your pay (under 1500 every two weeks once tools and benefits are considered). You have to pay this back and this is your sole income if no placements are made. If you do make commissions (placements) you are still required to take the draw and it is marked against your total commission balance biweekly, along with tools and benefits, before you see anything. The commissions you do see if you are so blessed to overcome the odds and make a placement from are extremely low compared to what is paid to the GPAC office. The draw also accumulates so if you weren’t able to pay it off the first time it adds up every two weeks, which you are expected to pay the total sum. You also start at 30% every single year in what you earn and have managed to establish the year prior from gaining any increased percentage rate. 30% minus the draw minus the tools minus the benefits ends up being not enough to sustain the common family/household, let alone acquire a growth in income. Once you reach a certain amount in the draw you are let go and that’s that. The company cannot pay for you to be employed if you keep a positive draw balance after about 20,000 - 25,000. No learning curve, no accommodations, unless you are given special treatment which is deemed appropriate at GPAC’s discretion. The pressure in the work atmosphere is such that if you do not make production you are let go with no remorse. The company is all about the numbers game and they will attest to it. The more the better. The more you do the more your rewarded. They take this number philosophy and apply it to the recruiters they employ. Through a sheer “hire 100 recruiters and hopefully 1 sticks” mentality, their turnover rate is astronomically high. Many hopes and dreams are lost and shattered here. Many spirits crushed from big promises yielding little rewards here, along with extreme struggles and extreme pain.