Run. - Project Manager KEES Employee Review

What I appreciate most about working here is the focus on meaningful nonprofit and public sector work, paired with a personalized, relationship-driven approach to search. As a woman-owned boutique firm, there’s a strong sense of purpose and care in how we support important missions and client partners. The team and leadership are highly collaborative, supportive, and genuinely enjoyable to work alongside, providing real opportunities for growth and learning.

While occasional challenges arise, as they do in any role, they are far outweighed by the meaningful work, flexibility, and strong support from the team and management.

- Opportunity to work with incredible nonprofits doing great work locally, regionally, and internationally. - Room to grow in a very fast-paced environment. - Very nimble and flexible infrastructure within the organization.

- Toxic work culture that includes belittlement, gaslighting disguised as "professional development" and/or "professionalism", ageist rhetoric at the intersection of workplace expectations/what is perceived as unreasonable expectations, and very little respect for professional and personal boundaries. - Training is at best a manual written by your predecessors and at worst 30 minutes of the CEO's time every couple of weeks when she briefly walks you through key components of the search process and then immediately (for me, a month) throws you into a prominent point position on multiple searches. - Unachievable job expectations. Myself and my colleagues were told repeatedly that our professional goals were underwhelming as compared to the CEO's when she was your age. - Human Resources is the CEO's husband. - You will be berated for your lack of professional decorum (as amorphously defined by the CEO but during my time there was a huge focus on grammar in emails) while the CEO is brazenly unprofessional - showing up late to meetings; sending emails in all caps; discussing past employees and their personal life challenges both to current employees and with clients.