Vaco Lannick Reviews
Updated Jan. 24, 2023
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- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
This is a great company to work for! Management provides lots of supportive training and the culture and staff are all very friendly and supportive! Great place to have a career and work from home is available! Lots of opportunity for succession and growth as well.
Cons
none that I can think of.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
- good training - strong team
Cons
- lots of grey area to navigate - not a great place for overall professional devpt
- Current Employee★★★★★
Great place to grow
Aug. 24, 2022 - Account Manager in Toronto, ONRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great Support by leadership and great training opportunities
Cons
None that I can think of
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
- Takes a chance on young up and coming professionals just out of university - weekly training sessions and one-on-ones to address and develop individuals - Tons of resources available to be successful in your role - High volume of work allows you to develop your time management skills - Great co-workers, everyone gets along well
Cons
- Low base salary in comparison to the market, and low vacation time - Some managers are not as responsive as others, and can come across as arrogant and unhelpful -Repetitive work everyday - keep track of how many calls you make throughout the day makes it feel micro-managed - Not the best work life balance - told if you don't work overtime (which you don't get paid for) you won't be able to make a lot of money and sometimes get made to feel guilty when you don't due to other obligations outside of work.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Fast-paced, Metric driven environment and great management
Cons
I don't see any cons
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
-good culture -friendly management -good training -can make a lot of money once things get going, which can take a while
Cons
-very low base pay, vacation time, benefits, etc -success is a mix of hard work and luck of the draw from account allocation -every day is the exact same
Continue readingThank you for the positive review and feedback. We certainly understand that there is a ramp up period with new associates, which can be repetitive and hard to maintain over periods of ebbs and flows of the market. However, we pride ourselves in setting realistic expectations with all our staff through weekly meetings to ensure they have a career path and goals that are achievable. Employees that garner three or more years of experience within our structure are often suited to make a six figure income, and anyone who has a tenure greater than 3 years have over an 85% retention rate with our organization. Additionally, Vaco Lannick has some of lowest turnover rates in the industry and we aim to ensure our employees are setup for success starting on their first day of employment within our company.
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Good agency
Jul. 28, 2021 - Administrative Assistant in Toronto, ONRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great support, nice agents, helpful
Cons
Not much positions available withthem
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
One of the best agencies to work for in the industry
Jun. 14, 2021 - Client Services Associate in Toronto, ONRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
- Senior management and many of the tenured staff are very friendly and nurturing if you take the initiative to build the relationship with them. - Lots of training and advice is provided. If you demonstrate a willingness to learn, management will be even more eager and invested in your success. - Management invests a great deal of time and effort to ensuring that the company culture is positive and friendly. - Not too much politics between colleagues. The sales environment is structured in a way that is supportive between colleagues. - You reap what you sow in this job. Success is a combination of both hard work and creativity, but hard work is most important. - Very competitive commission structure.
Cons
- Very face-paced metric-driven environment + long hours. There is often an expectation and pressure to work overtime. - Sales environments can get very busy at times. Some of my newer colleagues felt intimidated approaching their more tenured colleagues or managers because of it, and often stayed silent when they should have ask for help. It's not a job for the faint of heart. - There was a lot of pressure to achieve your call metrics, which included clients picking-up the phone/answering marketing emails, and having meaningful conversations that could eventually lead to a sale. However, these call lists were often incomplete or outdated. Poor call list = less likelihood of reaching the right prospect and getting a meaningful response = not achieving your metrics. An easy solution for someone with a bit of initiative would be to research/update these call lists themselves by finding the correct contacts via LinkedIn. However, spending too much time updating call lists instead of making actual calls was frowned upon during working hours. It was a bit of a Catch-22, as the only appropriate time to do this was by working overtime during off-hours, which I usually didn't have time for with work-life balance getting in the way. This alienated me from my work a bit, as I often felt pressured to make calls to unlikely prospects just to keep up with my dials metrics, instead of using that time more effectively (in my opinion).
Continue reading - Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Great stepping stone - don't try to build up here
Feb. 3, 2021 - Administrative Assistant in Toronto, ONRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
hires graduates without office experience
Cons
only values recruiters and those who can make the company money,
Continue readingVaco Lannick Response
Managing Partner
Much of this review is clearly from a very limited perspective. Please permit me to explain. The salary report you are referring to is based on actual job orders (per the methodology outlined within the document). That means that individuals that we are speaking to in the market as well as the candidates that we are placing at client companies are represented by the salaries outlined within the document. No client has ever used Lannick or any other premium-level recruitment and staffing firm to place candidates without at least 1-3 years of professional work experience. As a result, to compare our salary ranges to new grads entering the job market does not line up. The average length of employment for our non-production professionals is greater than 6.5 years - many of which have progressed to higher levels and greater responsibility and meaningful job duties, inclusive of increase to base salary (multiples of what they earned compared to when first hired). In fact, we have an administrative professional that just celebrated their 16th year work anniversary. To suggest we only value producers is untrue - and if it were, we would not have 22 happy and engaged non-production staff with us as long as we have. Also, we have been approached by many co-op programs over the years to assist their students with finding employment opportunities and gain valuable work experience; we then selected a post-secondary institution that aligns very well with our values, including paying for the co-op placements, unlike many employers that chose not to at all. Many of our administrators earn well above the industry average for what they do based on their tenure and experience. We are exceptionally proud of what we offer as an employer, including base pay, benefits, learning/coaching/mentoring, and work experience that will add to the skills necessary to ensure individuals are marketable, if they in fact chose to move on to another employer; or they can work hard, be patient and progress to a more advanced level while seeing increases in compensation along the way. It's never solely about base compensation when you start a new position and we are saddened that the overall value of what we offered as an employer did not meet or exceed your expectations. As a company that continues to double in size in 5-year intervals we feel that we are doing many things right. Wishing you nothing but success in the future. For those reading this review, please visit lannick.com to see which positions we have posted and apply accordingly. We look forward to you joining our team!
- Former Employee★★★★★
0 Respect for their Employees
Oct. 22, 2020 - Client Service Associate in Toronto, ONRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
None - don't fall the earning potential they repeatedly tell you in the interview because you'll likely never make it there since they'll find a reason to fire you whenever fits them best.
Cons
Do not work here or waste your time applying here. They do not care about their employees whatsoever, ask your connections if they know anyone who has worked here and their experiences will speak for themselves. The company is run by such poor management that have 0 respect for you. It is a rough job market right now but don't stoop as low to waste your time applying here. Find a place that will value you and your time, there's many out there. Trust me, you can find elsewhere, spare your dignity.
Continue readingVaco Lannick Response
Managing Partner
We're sorry things were difficult for you during the pandemic and we wish you all the best in the future. Most reading this review understand that feelings are not facts and that these are highly emotional times. We could not have doubled the size of the business every five years over the past 20 years and yielded so many long-term employees (10-15+ years of tenure) if any part of this was true. The income expectations that we share with new hires is absolutely 100% based on existing employees and what they continue to generate in income year-over-year. We pride ourselves in every aspect of our management style and will never stop holding people accountable to their metrics as their expectations for a high income level will always remain as a top priority, as well as working with the very best sales and recruitment teams in our industry.
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Vaco Lannick has an overall rating of 4.1 out of 5, based on over 47 reviews left anonymously by employees. 82% of employees would recommend working at Vaco Lannick to a friend and 75% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.
82% of Vaco Lannick employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Vaco Lannick 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 4.0 for career opportunities.
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