Not a Good Place to Work - Technical Recruiter TEKsystems Employee Review

2.0
Oct 14, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1) It's easy to sell the company to consultants and managers because "TEKsystems is the largest IT staffing agency in the U.S." 2) The company can afford to take chances on people fresh out of college with little to no recruiting or sales experience. 3) They train you into the IT industry and they have good training methods. I still remember IT Landscape statistics that I learned in my first few weeks at TEK.

Cons

1) They're terrible at training people into recruiting or sales. The week-long training they they send new recruiters to helped me to understand the IT landscape and how to use their ATS/CRM tool, but it did prepare me how to find and recruit good candidates. I believe they did this thinking I'd receive that type of training at my home office, but I (nor the other recruiters who started with me) did not. 2) They're dishonest about work/life balance. Expect to work 50+ hours a week-- always. Not just until you reach salary, or hit contest, or whatever other production goals they set for you. They might point to the single mom in the office or the guy who's been there for 20+ years and say how they accommodate a work/life balance, but what you don't see is how much that mom works from home or how many medications that guy takes because the stresses of the job have affected his health so much. 3) It's a drinking culture. At any location. If you're recovering at all, I highly recommend you don't work here. 4) Gossip was abound and perception was understood as reality. It was even discussed in our office frequently. "What perception do we give others? Don't be the first person to leave at the end of the day. People think XYZ about me, but what they don't see is ABC." These were frequent statements I heard and felt myself. When office leadership cannot stand up for their employees, their employees feel neglected and undervalued. This was one of the many reasons I left. 5) Workplace Bullies. Some of the most rewarded people in the office are bullies. Many people, including myself, brought up these bullies to the proper channels, and eventually quit because nothing was effective.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

- Decent pay to start. - Account manager is responsive, engaging, and a serious advocate for you and your contract. - Gain access to Udemy Business to build more skills.

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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