company is ran horribly - Anonymous employee Softworld Employee Review

2.0
Sep 17, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

free breakfast, nice co workere

Cons

management is terrible, job orders are not given out fairly

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Softworld Response
5y
Thank you very much for your candid feedback. While I'm glad for your comments regarding your coworkers, I'm sorry for the frustrations that you experienced. I'm not certain, but I'm assuming that you're referring to being a recruiter in your critique regarding job orders "not [being] given out fairly." Presuming that assumption's right, I actually agree with you, in a way - we don't always allocate job orders "fairly" in a traditional sense. Instead, our approach aims to match up business opportunities with the recruiter(s) in the best position to fill them. Expertise, depth of network, work ethic, client knowledge and a growth mindset all factor into the real-time business decisions that we make in allocating the thousands of requirements we work on every year. Every recruiter has an equal opportunity to prove themselves and grow in their profession; we also have business rules in place allowing any recruiter the freedom to put in extra effort on any job order within the company. If you want to be the best, you have an equal opportunity to earn it at Softworld. But our management philosophy and business operations are centered on the tenet that our best recruiters own our best business. I certainly understand that our model isn't for everybody, and I'm sorry you felt it wasn't for you. I wish you all the best at your next professional stop. If there are any other comments you'd like to share or suggestions for how we can improve, please feel free to reach me directly at 781-373-8452. Thanks again for your candor.

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Cons

Take this with a grain of salt since their director of recruiting was let go, and that was a major issue up until 2024. I'm sure some of the feedback still applies though In short, it was the worst experience I've had in staffing. Constant negative feedback, unrealistic goals, and dealing with recruiting management that had no experience, or likely success, anywhere else As a recruiter, you were probably given 95% system requirements from DoD employers with 60 other vendors (Black Holes). Their idea of "manager contact" would be if they knew the managers first name, and intake calls had those 60 other vendors on them You would also have to make 30 documented cold calls on old jobs each day, before you could even work on something new. Then they would just pass the job back to someone else after a month and keep going. Having jobs with 500-1000 VM's attached to them were normal. Again, these are system requirements, and not even good system requirements.

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Softworld Response
3mo
Thank you for your candor. It appears from your review that your tenure occurred years ago, and you're right that there have been personnel, parent company integration, and process changes more recently. Furthermore, some of those changes have reflected pieces of the business prioritization and particularly older job categorizations that you're alluding to. That said, many of the most successful recruiters in the history of the company worked within the same business structure, customer base, and opportunities that you refer to. Dozens of recruiters have built combinations of 10-plus year careers, leadership achievements, multi-million dollar GP portfolios and ground-up growth paths under the same model. Those numerous success stories respectfully would have been impossible under a primary staffing model that you describe. Our model has never been perfect, and we've always operated in a "what's best for the business isn't always easiest for recruiting" mindset. That has yielded some frustrating assignments, particularly for senior recruiters accustomed to other environments that may have featured less individual accountability. While some of the job order assignments and tasks you're describing doubtlessly occurred, our years-long double digit growth and individual success stories paint quite a different picture for many people. Our model (both then and now) wasn't for everybody, and we wish you best success in wherever your professional travels have taken you since your time with us. If you have anything more to add, including anymore specifics you think would have improved the business, I can be reached anytime at 781-373-8452. Thank you again for your review.
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