Proclinical Reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(183 total reviews)
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Paul Strouts

89% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Proclinical has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 183 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Proclinical employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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183 reviews
1.0
31 Mar 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Well, there are some good people there, but they tend to leave quickly

Cons

Where to start: - Be aware that this company was funded by a few people who have their own “inner circle” of protected and privileged ones (even if they are unable to do their job properly) - The recent shift of management has brought unwelcomed changes: people are much more controlled and micro-managed; there is more pressure on KPIs (one of the few good things until some months ago were the reasonable KPIs) and commission structure has changed in order to privilege people in the top management One example is from this difficult times caused by the virus: due to the fact they do not trust people working from home, they are now checking them every two hours and instead of trying to ease the stress and the pressure, they are asking people to increase hours on the phone and pressing candidates and companies more (is this a company who cares about people?) - There are some people, particularly those in good with the management (without any merits apart from g binge drinking with them), which are always receiving benefits, as for example being included in incentives trips even without reaching targets and get randomly promoted as well - They spend an awful lot of money in parties, but if you ask a laptop for working from home due to COVID, they don’t have the budget (ridiculous) - Some people in the middle management think they can manipulate people with their useless speeches about how much they care about your career progression, when they are just thinking about how much money they will gain at the end of the quarter (and honestly people are smarter than you think, stop believe you can manipulate them) - Client service managing is giving the fault of their mistake or unsuccess to their, when it’s pretty clear that they don’t have the expertise to manage the client - Team leads are the worst. They obtained this job title thanks to the effort made by their resourcers (often more experienced and more capable than them) or, even worse, talking them down in front of the management and giving them the worst positions There have been a few cases of bullying there, e.g. management (HR!!)laughing on how new entries are dressing or behaving I would never go back, even if desperate, so be careful during interview, when they are trying to present them as good as they can!

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Proclinical Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback on your experience with Proclinical. We are disappointed to hear that your perception of the business and your colleagues is of this nature. I would like to address some of your comments as we feel that some of them are unfounded and misleading. Proclinical is well known in the industry as a company that has never been ‘an aggressive KPI driven business'. Our KPIs have remained the same for many years, 15 in total and are regarded as low for industry standards. Our commission structure adapts and evolves with the business every year, as it does most recruitment agencies and if you have been with the business for more than one year, you will be aware of this. As we continue to grow as a business, with 16 offices globally, this is completely normal and necessary for many reasons. If anyone is reading this and has concerns then I would welcome them to approach our TA team to review the schemes and judge as we benchmark annually and we believe it to be strong for the industry. During these challenging and unprecedented times, we are proud of how we quickly and efficiently set up all 215 of our employees to work remotely across the globe, providing company laptops and equipment where possible and across all 16 offices. With the on-set of Covid, our first concern was about the safety of our employees and given that 60% of the company uses desktops and the lead time for our supplier (Dell) is a month at time of writing this response, we asked everyone that could use a home laptop to do so for assistance, so people could keep working from home where they would be safe. This isn’t to do with money or investment in the slightest, just speed and safety. Managers have been keeping in touch with their team members regularly over the past 2 weeks but this is to ensure they have the necessary support and tools to do their job effectively whilst we work remotely. We are keen to ensure that all staff also have adequate support mentally at an extremely uncertain time like this. Some staff are very new to recruitment and need more development and assistance so contact levels depend on the employee. Any employee that attends company incentives or are promoted are done so within the strict parameters of our consistent reward and recognition schemes. The management team work hard to ensure that each incentive is organised fairly and consistently. The comments you make around ‘bullying’ are concerning. I would be keen to better understand your thoughts and feelings shared here through direct feedback, so please feel free to out to reach out to me directly on j.kinsella@proclinical.com.
1.0
15 Apr 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some good and friendly people, mostly coming from lower levels

Cons

I am not the kind of person who usually write this kind of review, especially because I always had good and positive experiences in my career, but here, was not definitively the case: - Management is useless, some people find themselves in apical positions, without any job-related merit, but because they are best friends with the management - Salaries are ridiculous, 24k as average for people (even if they have PHDs) who are working hard and long hours in a very niche industry - They like to recruit unexperienced people, in order to pay them less and because they are usually not willing or mature enough to go against management even when they absolutely should - If you are just a person with a self-esteem and willing to share your views, you are going to end up in the “blacklist”, so your career there is ended - Team leaders are so scared of people under them doing better, that they try everything to make their resources unable to achieve any success - Lots of discretionary decisions made just to privilege some people - zero flexibility, zero trust

1.0
1 Apr 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There's a high focus on InMails for sourcing. They give you 400 InMails a month on LinkedIn and for that reason there isn't much cold calling expected. Since there is client managers, there's roles to start working on right away for the most part, you don't need to create your own business. However, there isn't much expectation on pulling clients, mostly a 180 desk even though they'll say it is 360.

Cons

Everyone on here is saying that the Learning and Development Program is outstanding, it's not that great in terms of business development, decent at best for sourcing candidates and qualifications calls. I was "Fired" in the middle of the Coronavirus epidemic and they cited "I wasn't producing enough business". Meanwhile I had only been there two months, I had a total of 15 interviews in those two months, my talk time was the highest in the office (their main KPI I was over 2 hours a day consistently), and I had 7 late stage interviews ongoing with offers due to come in next week. .......they fired me so they wouldn't have to pay out my commission, everyone else had billed $0 at that point for that quarter. Lastly, when they fired me, they hacked into my LinkedIn account and downloaded all my information and changed my password to my personal account. In my office there were a number of conversations about personal sexual activity and illegal drug use out in the open. There's a lot of favoritism.

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