Hays Reviews

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Nothing will be handed to you, you have to work for it. But once you start seeing results, you feel incredibly accomplished.

Cons

Low pay, long hours, little or no confidentiality regarding HR conversations. When you leave you are essentially bad mouthed and forgotten. Management will not pay out owed salary/ commission due to arbitrary reasons. Making minimum wage for the first year and propping up senior consultants. Party culture that can be very alienating for people. Not somewhere that you can grow your career unless you drink the kool-aid.

Cons

Poor office culture and and work environment. Many of the employees who are non-management are constantly worried about being let go, as there is a culture of fear and reprimand. You cannot feel safe in your position as you are an expendable piece that can be let go for little to no reason at any time.

The Vice President is an aggressive individual who is large in part responsible for creating the culture of fear. He is not approachable at all, and often sends out negative and almost threatening emails to the entire office to try and increase performance.

Certain managers discourage working with some candidates as they are "too old." This is not a rare practice in the organization either. Any candidate above 60 may have a hard time being considered for a role.

It often feels as though the organization does not really care about their candidates, but rather they just want to make money out of them. If they believe they can't make money out of them, they often completely discard the candidate.

Once you leave or are let go from the organization, they don't really want anything to do with you. It is very difficult at this point to have any questions or concerns answered.

Upper management will let employees go with seemingly little consideration for them. Employees have been laid off right before Christmas, before their own weddings, and before vacations.

Many employees are unhappy here, and turnover is very high.

Cons

Everything! Management are not approachable in any way, you're walking on eggshells to ensure you don't get fired for no apparent reason. They don't need to give a reason for the loss of job, they like to employ on contract so they can get rid of you before you decide to leave on your own accord. Whilst I was there the turnover of staff was extortionate. Not enough encouragement, all about doing better than your best. I would never ever recommend anyone to apply for a job here. It is such a shame a world renowned recruitment company is run the way that it is.

Cons

KPI are often sole focus
Base salary under market
Benefits were under market
No Flex Time
No Remote Work
In Calgary, you don't bill you don't matter
Senior Mgmt can be petty as people leave the business

Cons

Malicious gossip, rumour mills, college aged hires, poor base salary, lack of transparency on salary and package. Poor management in every way.

Cons

I have nothing negative to say.

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Middle and senior management have all worked at Hays their entire career, most without any qualifications. They've created a culture of fear and do not have the aptitude to effectively manage the business and adapt to market conditions. Very transactional with clients and are only motivated by money, hence why they have very little repeat business. Vice President is often unpredictable, aggressive, unstable and unprofessional. They hire and fire with no long term strategic plan, only focusing on the next 4 weeks of revenue. This is a far cry from Hays' successful global operations. Good, high-performing consultants have left and will not refer business opportunities to Hays Calgary in the future.

Cons

pay not nice at all

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Upper management totally disconnected from the reality.
The manager i worked with made everyone's life miserable : zero work ethics(keeps shooping online and checking her snapchat all the time),rude(even candidate hated talking to her),unprofessional..
Lower levels are keeping the company alive