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Motion Recruitment

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Motion Recruitment reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(490 total reviews)

Chris Layden

100% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Motion Recruitment has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 490 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Motion Recruitment employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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490 reviews
5.0
May 18, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

-Culture -Growth opportunity -Knowledge -Learning how to be solutions oriented -Interaction with Hiring Managers

Cons

-Salary – not competitive however it is a great motivation to do your job well and excel, and finally get the pay increase that comes alone with the promotion. -High stress at times, but it pays off once a position is filled with your candidate.

5.0
Mar 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

• Truly superior sales training, starting with basic lead generation, on to account management, advanced negotiation skills, etc.; you're instructed on and off the desk from Day 1 • You are doing real business with real companies while you're still very green; within 30 days you're responsible for building new clients and making business deals at a stage where at another agency your role might be limited to candidate sourcing for 12 months or more • Significant income growth for top producers within a few years; it's not easy to get to that stage of course, but if you're a commissionable employee on a top 25% percentile team you'll be earning more than most of your peers in other industries outside of finance, or without an MBA • You can build a strong network; high-level people at impressive companies know your name, and depend on you to solve business problems, and if you do it well, your reputation will last • If you're on the agency side, you're getting an education in entrepreneurial corporate culture; your boss will will try his/her best to be a mentor and share battle stories, client lore, business etiquette, where are the best restaurants in Midtown,etc., and the level of personal attention to employees is high at every stage of your career • Following that last one...if you like the job, and if you get good at it, you can become a manager yourself in an average of 1.5 years; all of sudden now you're in a position to teach others what you've learned, inspire your team, look after your business, and hopefully become a leader worthy of trust

Cons

•The nature of inside sales, regardless of what company you work for, is a lot of time at the desk and on the phone, coupled with pressure to produce, which can have the effect of sending less experienced business people on something of an emotional roller-coaster; this is not unique to the Workbridge Associates or to Motion Recruitment Partners, and sales remains a challenging way to make a living, and even the most stern and steady professional can get burned out after a while • Because sales and recruiting is a team operation, everyone needs to be there, in the office, doing the same thing at the same time to accomplish team goals; for this reason your schedule is extremely rigid, and it's a challenge to maintain focus while spending unbroken hours at the desk, especially when you're junior in the business and you don't have people to manage, meetings to write, clients to visit, etc.

2.0
Dec 30, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great entry level training program young hip atmosphere. The path is clear for advancement if this type of work is your bag.

Cons

Terrible pay even for entry level, but the worst part is no commission. Unrealistic goals for how much money you will make. I worked there for 10 months, billed over 100k ( and in recruiting there is very little over head so that is a nice chunk) and my salary went from 30k to a whopping 37,500 a year. In my entire peer group of all the people I knew when I worked there that had proven themselves and were supposed to have this great career path, only one of them is still there. None of those that made manager came close to making 100k. It has bean a few years since I worked there and I have heard they have gotten more up to date but they literally use no technology and no CRM. There methods are a little dated and I had never seen that they work, seeing our competition used them to their success. (No phone screens?) Managers are young and not very experienced. Seeing they only promote from within it is very feasible that all the Senior level people have never worked at another company before and only see the business world through the Stride "bubble" . They also play favorites which was a big reason I left. There is allot of attempted indoctrination in this company. Almost like a cult and if you cant "hack it" here, than your clearly sub par. Ya right. I see allot of reviews on here talking about how much money the senior management here make. What took them 10 years to achieve at Stride I made in my new job in 3. I also didn't see any of them mentioning the draw you have to make when your management to even begin making commissions. Ridiculous. If you are that good of a recruiter than just set up your shop. You will make allot more. They also keep talking about the entrepreneurial mind set you need to succeed here. If they were that entrepreneurial they would be working for themselves.

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