Where to begin...
- Commission structure is beyond a joke, it's rubbish, honestly you'd make more comms in tips at a Pizza Express. Also it's never properly explained to new staff, it's actually embarrassing to see someones face when they realise
- Management operate a "brown nose for career progression" policy. If you don't implant your head into your managers behind you aren't going to do well here. Alternately if you do your recruitment ability / billings wont matter at all you'll be propelled through the business
- Too many meetings, got to be close to 20% of a working week will be spent in team meetings / catch ups / 1-2-1s / new initiative meetings / meetings to cut down on having meetings. I'm not even joking that actually happened once.
- Company lacks direction. Every 6 months or so they have a major restructure to react to something thats happened in the market or because the last restructure hasnt had the immediate impact they management hoped. Then staff get berated for "being too reactionary".
- Company isnt forward thinking about new revenue streams or investments to grow the business that either A) Cost money or B) take time
- Back on the subject of pay alongside the embarrassing comms structure salaries here are seriously depressed. This place pays well for juniors but be warned... the salary you join on you will probably stay at for the next 2/3 years as "the company hasnt made enough money" or other political excuse, this is the same for top billers. Eventually you will get maybe a £1K / 2K raise if you make enough noise but for that you should be very very thankful. (A consultant whod been with the business for 3 years was billing and just had a baby requested a raise due to circumstance change and lack of pay rise to date was offered £500 extra a year)
- Extremely high turnover. By that I mean staff and clients. Last year the business lost 15 of 40ish recruiters. Most of those 15 were seniors. Client retention is more of a concept than strategy.
- The business is entirely bound the US overlords who seem to have no idea about the recruitment industry / practise / market conditions outside the states.
