When you are first contacted by gpac about any position within the company they make it seem so inviting. What they fail to tell you is the retention rate is absolutely abysmal and that is for a very good reason. This company is like a cult combined with a pyramid scheme. I can tell you this, and I stress it, listen to the bad reviews on here and other sites, because the good reviews listed are mostly populated by employees with a vested interest in giving positive reviews only. If they actually wanted opinions and feedback, the company would have listened and made changes already. They simply do not care, I think they have an HR department just for face value, because they sure don’t make any changes to address employee morale, satisfaction, or retention. Be sure and keep on reading to see a comprehensive summary of my short nightmare of a time of being here, I know it’s a long read but see the truth to this awful company before making the same mistake as many others on here. The salary they promise that is possible to earn rarely happens, it's only in the rarest circumstances with the highest tier earners. Most people will barely be able to make enough commission from placements to account for the commission draw you have to worry about each month. You would honestly be better off working a different job with a guaranteed salary than having to worry every second, minute, hour of the day worrying whether you will land a deal to basically pay for the commission draw each month. That is not even factoring in the "tool" charge either. It is laughable you have to pay for your “tools” that other companies literally give you for free. The training they offer is completely inadequate, they train you a few days then throw you to the wolves. Good luck asking questions being dependent on your coach as well, it might take them all day to get back to you or they may never respond at all. A lot of the coaches are rude and seem not to care about their recruiters, especially if they have any nervousness or mental hurdles to get past. It's always the same answer, "get back on the phone and make calls." This is not a family company like they try to portray, it’s a meat grinder posing as a family company that chews up unsuspecting people who have fell on hard times looking for work. A family company certainly wouldn’t demean, curse at, and belittle their employees if they aren’t meeting some stupid unrealistic metric. The micromanagement is absurd as well. Don’t listen to the lie about “build your own business.” You have a coach/supervisor breathing down your neck every single minute of the day. They track every dial you make, call time, and any other metric that can be tracked. Not to mention having to sit through video meetings every day, which is time that could be better spent doing something productive like working. I also think some coaches want certain people to straight up fail, because I was doing everything within my power to do a good job and at every turn my coach had something negative to say. I just eventually got to the point where I literally couldn’t do my job for the interference of the coach, so that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Why work here if I can’t “literally work here?” I asked myself. The techniques they teach border on downright slimy and greasy as well. I honestly felt very uncomfortable during my time working here because some of the conversation techniques they teach as well other things such as posting fake job listings when the job doesn’t even exist in the first place on most occasions made me outright uncomfortable. As someone who has been looking for a job numerous times and had a hard time doing it, imagining applying to a fake job only to be annoyed by a recruiter rather than a hiring manager would make me enraged. I’m just not that type of person and I felt dirty all the time feeling like I was lying to people. Honestly making money this way isn’t worth bending my moral code, no amount is. Good luck fitting in with a team of established recruiters as a new employee as well. They just ignore you for the most part. I'm sure the only way they would pay attention is if you yourself had a bunch of jobs or candidates to fill for part of their commission split in a joint deal. It feels very much like a clique combined with a frat house atmosphere. You have the people that have been at the company for over a decade who are in upper management (most of them ownership’s friends and family), then the recruiters and coaches that have been at the company for a few years in the middle, then at the very bottom you have new recruiters fighting over the scraps in the mud. The highest privileged employees are always reaping the rewards of the plebeians below them. It doesn’t help when you notice a lot of the top executives are family and friends of the original purveyor of the company and are only there because of that. These people would never survive in any other executive setting. They refuse to change with the times and make any changes to the way they conduct business. They always parrot, “our 30 years of experience provides the blueprint.” Honestly I think a huge problem with the company is their unwillingness to change. You know what has changed in 30 years? A lot. Keeping the same archaic methods for decades is not a good look. Other recruiting companies have evolved, they have not. It’s like someone given a choice between a Model T and a new Mercedes and the person still saying “nah, I’ll stick with the Model T.” Their entire company culture is like working at a frat house from the 80’s. I definitely understand now why so many people wash out of this company. It is completely warranted and is reflective of them as a whole. The culture, arrogance, and uncaring attitude towards employees is something I have rarely seen in my career. I thought I eventually wanted to be a recruiter, but this experience has completely and irrevocably destroyed any interest I will ever have in this job field for the rest of my life. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself "no!" when offered the opportunity, I would have saved myself hours upon days upon months of hell. Looking at some of these positive reviews on here praising this company, these people must have worked for a different place than I did, or they are just outright fake.
