David Aplin Group Reviews

Pros

Friendly, supportive work environment. Great training that is ongoing and direct interaction with highly experienced Recruiters and Management that are always happy to help!

Cons

Parking downtown is terrible.

Advice to Management

Parking subsidy! Or the opportunity to work remote at least once a week!

Pros

Great team with a management team that truly cares

Cons

Maybe provide junior staff as a resource for top consultants.

Pros

At one time there was the "home/work" balance, but that was slowly changing when I was released. They let you run your desk the way you want to run your desk as if it is your own business, its about making the numbers which makes sense. Flexibility in regards to attending to family at home, option to work from home was a perk for employees with children. When the economy is good, and your billing,life is good here,...

Cons

Lots of staff turnover in leadership and consultants, revolving door of poor hires lots of change in consultants during the seven years nationally. Weak leadership for branches, challenge to find someone to manage the branch took over a year to secure someone, numerous managers during my time. Technology, computers needs to be updated more than ten years old, screens were old, nothing seems to be updated with the...

Advice to Management

Re-evaluate the leadership team, your teams are only as good as their leaders. Get all the information before making decisions, you may not always have the correct facts. Communication on the direction of the company needs to be clearer.

Pros

Thrown right into the fire and need to build up a book of business quickly. You learn a lot in a short amount of time and should look at this as a launching pad for your career.

Cons

West Coast HQ dictates KPIs and quotas across company which are unrealistic for verticals and territory for rest of Canada. Place a ton of value on previous extensive Sales experience (from other industries) but these people come in and crash & burn.

Advice to Management

Be transparent and place more value on your intermediate up and coming recruiters. Embrace their skills and help them develop their careers, instead of pushing them out the door to put money in a competitors pocket (who sees more value in them). Recruiting is just as important as Sales in any deal, one does not outweigh another. A Sales person doesn't equal a rockstar recruiter off the hop. BD is not more important than...

Pros

Having worked at Aplin for nearly a decade, I can truly attest to the strong collaborative company culture and the internal support for career growth and development. So much opportunity to make an everlasting impact. The recruitment team focuses on extending that positive impact among their peers, with their clients and with job seekers.

Cons

High stress industry, lean corporate team.

Pros

Great mentoring and training. They give you the tools to succeed! Excellent work life balance.

Cons

Parking downtown is not great.

Pros

Office looks professional, salary was given on time

Cons

Keep changing their own staff, unprofessional Recruiters- recruiters are not keen into answering mails nor replying back repeated calls. They seem to be concerned on their earnings and not into progressing their business ettiquetes.

Advice to Management

Be careful on hiring your own Recruiters. Focus on the skills required and not on the looks. Most Recruiters have no recruiting background which can easily identify during the interview process. If this cannot be avoided, provide proper training to your Recruiters.

Pros

Good working culture, average pay

Cons

Leadership is declining, worried for future of company