okay to start your career - personal, not factual impression of the company - IT Talent Broker Hays Employee Review

3.0
Jun 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good training. stable-ish environement (your account managers can lose their job leaving recruiters confused, recruiters can be switched to departments without their consent) party athmosphere

Cons

- talent brokers have to modify the cvs themselvs (no marketing departement to do it for you) - talent broker has to create the contract themselvs and focus on the administrative tasks (no hr department that does it) - very low pay for what you are doing, but like i said, a great door to start your recruitment career. - cult like mentality (they have a slogan saying they are the best recruitment company in the world etc etc) - You have certain benchmarks to attain each month not related to placements (a certain number of in person interviews or phone calls) - Their database isn't that efficient (it takes 4-24h to enter a CV found from linkedin in their system. Must send representation forum for the candidate through the system : therefore you are forced to work `rogue`(find your own solutions) or accept a max 24/h delay with your candidate for the recruitment process

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Hays Response
8y
Thanks for your review. I'm not sure how long ago you worked for Hays but our tools and technology are the best in the recruitment industry and have been designed to make our consultants' jobs easy and reduce admin tasks like some of the cons you mentioned. We are very proud of being the most successful specialist recruiter in the U.K., we're not #1 globally (yet!) and want everyone that works for us to feel the same way. Thanks for your suggestions - I'm sure you know we pay commission monthly, which is uncapped based on results and with promotions possible at 6mths / 9mths / 12mths each with its own pay rise.

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