Pros
If you’re looking for an opportunity to learn recruitment, then it’s probably worth doing Taylor Hopkinson for a year. They’re pretty good at providing you with opportunities to see how many beers you can drink, but plenty of your colleagues can't handle their drink well and start getting weird. It’s a bit like drinking in a Wetherspoons. It's great news if you like Wetherspoons, though. And you’ll love the TH office. The windows are tinted just dark enough that it looks pitch black outside from October to March, so you’ll have no idea what time it is. It’s thoroughly depressing, just like a Spoons. The chairs in the office are comfortable enough, which is great news given that you’ll be expected to spend a lot of time in them – despite what you're told about flexible working. The business is recruiting very actively at the moment, so you can be fairly confident of your success when you interview – they’ll hire pretty much anyone. Case in point, they interviewed and subsequently hired a trainee at the start of December that didn’t know how to open Outlook or join a Teams call. They managed to last six weeks.
Cons
The CEO “can not (sic) think of any obvious cons” when he anonymously wrote a Glassdoor review about his own business. Fortunately, I spent a bit more time in the office than he did, so there were a few things I picked up on which he might not have seen. Management generally doesn’t like to hear what’s going wrong and will try to ignore or cover up the things that don’t look good. What can be swept under the rug, is. And it’s a big rug. Burnout’s completely endemic at TH, and management does absolutely nothing about it. I was told that everyone’s suffering and that there were other people (whose names I was given) that were suffering much worse than I was. Despite flagging it to management multiple times, no changes to my workload were made. No surprises that I had my first ever anxiety attack while working at TH. Contributing to the burnout is the fact that holidays feel like they’re only grudgingly tolerated. I once took two days off for a long weekend and was encouraged to attend a meeting in the office on the first day, and told to dial-in to another meeting the second.
