KForce-get your act together - Talent Director Kforce Employee Review

1.0
Jan 14, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

their compesation plan is solid and well thought out. Competitive in the NYC Metro Area.

Cons

The New York NY office of Kforce is in shambles. They have cycled through about 3 different management teams in the past year and change. Recently they have been promoting underqualified sales people to lead teams, literally people who have been unsuccesful in their line of business. The problem is most of them barely understand staffing. This is both in terms of perm and flex- (contract). In addition, year over year revenues are down and they are under siege from other companies. Kforce sold off a couple major components recently suggesting they are cash poor. In addition, Dave Dunkel took home a massive bonus. Overall, my experience is they are poorly managed and inept at hiring quality people. Their back office processes are painful and they often have difficult times bringing payments in. If it doesnt come in a certain time period, the AE takes the hit as a write-down. Also, the emphasis here is not on cultivating relationships but rather more geared towars throwing as many resume's as possible. The teams, at least in technology, do not meet their candidates and most of the time they dont even bother speaking to them before emailing out a resume; kforce is not ethics first.

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5.0
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Pros

Work Life Balance, the comradery across the whole firm.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Decent salary base, probably could be a really good paying job if the job market was better

Cons

Definitely a typical, corporate sales culture where you are defined by your metrics and your metrics only. They are money grabbers, and their commission structure isn't that great. After 2 years you lose 50% of your commission from contractors and they eliminated early release days before holidays. My office started becoming a "bro culture" and the leader was clearly trying to act like "one of the guys" with the males in the office. If your market is slow with reqs, they expect you to reach out to other offices for subs which is hard to do when other offices favor their own teams' recruiters. They'll likely give you a picked over req or one not close to the money that their own team didn't want to work on. I had to reach out to other offices daily to basically beg for a req to work on to hit my metrics. To add to it, the PTO structure for salaried employees is not how they described it when I joined. 17 PTO days total (including sick/personal time btw) and it is actually accrued throughout the year. I had to use PTO for sick time and a vacation, so when I left I had to write them a check for my balance! Talk about a way to really give someone the boot when they're on their way out the door.

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