Best training in the Industry! However, this is how much you will actually make. READ BELOW! - Recruiter/Account Manager Aerotek Employee Review

3.0
9 Jan 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Best Training in staffing hands down! Other recruiting companies will constantly be offering you jobs. Culture is fun. Also, the HR is actually really good compared to other companies. You can express yourself to upper management and won't get fired! That is huge!

Cons

Salary: Compensation is low. 33k for recruiters unless you have been there a year, then you get 36k. Account Managers get 36k. Commission: 3% commission off of spread. Spread is a weekly % off of a mark-up. You get money off of spread, not the sell itself. So, hypothetically speaking, if you place an engineer at $100k a year for a company, with 50% mark-up on top of that, the company makes $50k over 3-6 months. Your spread is $1500/week! However you only get 3% of that in actual earnings. $45 bucks over 3-6 months. so $3-6 bucks a week on top of your paycheck! That's how it all works a $10k recruiter is a top producer so do the math on that.

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Great people, great training, great entry level opportunity to get into recruiting and sales. If you are successful you will make more here than about anywhere else. Performing Recruiters are making $55k-$75k. Great Recruiters are making $100k+. Every large office has salespeople making $200k-$400k. Culture is 100% committed and generally cool type-A's you would want to have a beer with. The skills, drive, and sense of urgency you learn at Aerotek serve you well anywhere you may go later.

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If you are just looking for a low-commitment 8-5 job while posting on social media about where you are partying that night...you will not like Aerotek. Success requires an all in approach both in work ethic and active support of the culture. That is not for everyone. There are Political Science grads 3 years out of college making $200k+, but there is a price to be paid. All the tough work comes first. If you are not up for the level of work and commitment, Aerotek is not for you. If you are, none of this is really a "con" As far a real cons go, the benefits are only OK, and finding work/life balance is pretty difficult.

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