Pros
- Excellent training for new recruiters, the MD who is quite inspiring as a business leader does make a huge effort when it comes to coaching people new to the industry. - Useful feedback given often by management, who do take an interest in their employees. - Excellent team environment, it was often a lot of fun to work there. Probably the best social scene of any company I've been involved with before or since. - Interns are treated with respect and fully included from day 1. Provided you are willing to work and learn and prove yourself you will be given a fair shot in Three Q. - Transparent business planning with an approachable MD and fair Ops Manager. - Weekly pay can be useful for some people. - Employee Assistance Programme is a good initiative for the company to be involved in.
Cons
- Huge overreliance on direct applicants and the ancient internal database on the perms side. When this is combined with a strict and formulaic approach to KPI's, candidates are often spam-called in order to tick a box and avoid getting given out to at the end of the week. This is ultimately bad for company reputation. - BD targets are unrealistic and completely out of step with other companies in the industry and with the size of the sectors Three Q concentrate on. Again, companies are effectively spammed. - Consultants can get bogged down when they are told to get involved in the MD's side projects or on marketing tasks, which distracts from the main job of talking to clients and candidates and ultimately making placements. - While it is generally a nice environment to work in, there have been instances where lines have been crossed in terms of staff and/or managers talking negatively behind other staff's backs. It didn't happen often but it shouldn't happen at all - if you have a problem with someone, tackle it up front with the person themselves, and try to lessen the extent to which a bad mood can effect everyone else. - SR commission thresholds are unnecessary, unfair and should be ditched. If a consultant bills, there should be no circumstances where they should not be due a commission payment - period.