Technical Reccruiter - Technical Recruiter TEKsystems Employee Review

2.0
Jul 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great Training Stay for one year and get out (Makes yourself more marketable) Great company to put on your resume Teaches you how to become a professional quickly

Cons

50K once you hit 3K in spread. Could take 5 to 10 months on average. 38K until then. They throw you into a skill set you may not reach your full potential in Extremely political company and upper management is the only people that make money. There are three offices full of recruiters all recruiting on the same positions so very high competition. No upward movement in the downtown office. They will put you through the sales program for months and there is a good chance you won't be promoted. You need to have roughly 9 to 13 contractors at a time to make commission They do a great job at feeding information to you that is not always true. Sounds good but is not a reality. " TEK Kool-Aid" The company is too large so they don't actually care about your growth as a professional you can be replaced very quickly. 10 hour work days. They say 8 to 5pm but they want you in at 7:30 til 5:30 everyday even if there are no positions If there are no positions to work on they tell you to remain proactive and usually blame recruiters and delivery for not producing. Account managers don't get much blame. Account managers who shouldn't be there and don't bring in business end up staying. (Back to no Growth)

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Cons

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Cons

- The benefits suck. - High recruiter turnover with highly variable experience trying to work with them-- some are good, most are not. - Once you are placed, you will be promised regular meetings and then never hear from the recruiter again. - Trying to find a new contract if you are unhappy with your current placement is nearly impossible and I don't believe they are incentivized to help you move at all. - You have to manually request a raise and depending on how you negotiated your contract, you may or may not have the ability to receive one. - There is a cap to how much they will pay you for the contract so even if you work that position 4 years, once you hit that cap you are stuck. I originally submitted my resume with TekSystems when I had finished my degree and never heard back. Many years later, I was approached on LinkedIn by a TekSystems recruiter for a position and he had no idea I was in the system previously. Working with him was good, and I did get the position. Then I never heard from him again and I've had 4 or 5 different recruiters whose names I could not tell you if I tried since then. There's supposed to be monthly calls, they never happen.

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