If I hear one more person say "impact lives"... - Senior Recruiter Actalent Employee Review

2.0
Dec 11, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Office culture is fun (if you like drinking and HR violations) - Truly a good group of people (in my specific field office) - Can make good money if you're lucky or want to work 60 hours/week

Cons

- "impacting lives" by lying to them and trying to sell them on our consulting model that none of our clients actually do - working with sub-par clients that don't pay people what they're worth making our job harder - no work life balance - used to sell people in on our hybrid schedule, but we are now 5x a week in office - Sales and recruiting are held to 2 very different standards and sales gets more flexibility - flexibility offered to leadership only (directors and above can work from home when they want while the rest of us are required to be in office) - Abysmal salary that is based off nothing other than your start date with the company and how many year end goals you hit - LAUGHable benefits. $750/year 401K match.. you read that right. Insanely expensive health benefits that do absolutely nothing. - company paid trip to Mexico for top performers so you can drink and vacation with your coworkers or as directors call them your "friends" (many HR violations happen on this trip and people will get fired and sent home early, I've seen it happen every year I've been)

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