Pros
If you’re trying to get your start in recruiting, they have a very comprehensive training program. People come out of Jobspring and Workbridge (sister company) with good recruiting experience. For people like me who isn’t pursuing a career in recruiting after that experience, it was pretty much a waste of time.
Cons
Where do I start...I really wasn’t there for that long, but just being at my new company for a while made me realize how dysfunctional Jobspring was. The review is for the Irvine office, but it looks like from the reviews that these problems plague every location. This is probably due to the fact that they promote from within and the managers who are all under the age of 35 don’t know any better and are used to this environment. If you’re lucky, you could get added to a team where your manager may still be immature, but will at least treat you pleasantly and professionally. If you’re unlucky, you may get added to an aggressive managers team. I’ve seen one of the managers treat his team members to the point that the girls on his team are in tears all the time. I get that we are in a sales environment where you have to push people sometimes to succeed, but to the point where it’s done in a way that’s unprofessional and down right aggressive?? It was honestly hard to watch sometimes and was a big reason why I quit so soon. You’re in an smaller open office environment and you literally sit in front of your manager. Everything you say or do is being watched. If you say something wrong on the phone with a candidate or client, your manager will publicly point out your wrong doing right then and there in front of your team and the rest of the office. You have to take your lunch from 12-1. If you walk in at 1:01, you will get a snarky comment from one of the managers. Anytime you take off for things like doctors appointments, you’re going to be suspected of interviewing and grilled by the managers. The ones who made it to the sales aspect of the job have to do extra work after work at home UNPAID to “source” for leads. If you work on this during work hours, you’re going to be told off. Oh and you’re going to have mandatory training half an hour early on Tuesday and Thursdays. Not to mention, the compensation is ridiculous. You have to do about 20 deals for you to be a lead recruiter and earn commission. They said this will take about a year to a year and a half. But when i worked there, there was literally no lead recruiter, which means most people don’t last that long. Until then, every candidate you place adds 1k to your annual salary, which equals to about $83 per MONTH, while your manager takes home a big check for your hard work.
