Onward Search reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)
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Ken Clark

87% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Onward Search has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 131 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Onward Search 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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131 reviews
5.0
Jul 14, 2015

Great cultured, rapidly growing company.

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Pros

Excellent company with a good group of people. Able to attend college with flex hours, attend technology and guided meetings either online or going to NYC. Dress code was relaxed. Metrics were all achievable by following their process. Meetings were always 2-way with management, listening and talking equally.

Cons

There isn't an option to work from home, not a big deal at all for my circumstance. Seems not everyone knows the sales structures (in prior reviews) and expect to walk in the door being handed money. It's like any other job, you gotta work hard to make a name for yourself for candidates and/or clients and build a rep. Sometimes this can be a slow process or fast one depending on lots of variables.

4.0
Jul 13, 2015

A Company that LIVES its Values! Refreshing, gratifying and inspirational.

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Pros

Onward is an organization that thrives on the innovation, drive, and discipline of it's employees. Here, we do things the RIGHT WAY. We support each other. We provide amazing customer service, and we communicate with honesty and transparency. Everything we say, is said with respectful candor, and (should be) received with equanimity. Recently, Onward has doubled-down on it's commitment to supporting it's employees across the globe, by investing in training, career progression, and corporate resources. The mission of the training program is to equip our innovative, raw talent with the strategy and consistent execution that will take their skills to the next level. The leadership at Onward is visionary, passionate, forthright, and honest. This company practices what it preaches, and inspires excellence in all things, from the top down.

Cons

When we marry our innovation, with strong strategic implementation, we'll be unstoppable.

2.0
Jun 28, 2015

Unethical Leadership who back stab one another and play politics

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Pros

I wish I could list some pros. When you first start out there, you feel like there are many pros. You feel that you have leadership support, you feel like you are empowered to do the job you're hired to do, but once the honeymoon is over, it's all about the money and there is zero reward for your efforts. It's a smoke and mirror situation. They sell you on the pros to get you come work for them and then once they have acquired all of your professional contacts and generated consistent revenue from your efforts, they cast you aside and replace you with a Jr professional who picks up your accounts where you left off.

Cons

The leadership is highly unethical. There is zero regard for employees. Even the top producers are expendable, even more so than others because once you become a top producer, the company doesn't like having to pay them such high commissions. They either force their top producers out or fire them and with the NDA they make you sign, top producers are trapped in a lose-lose situation because they cannot go work for a competitor for 1 year and lose all rights to the contacts that they have added to the database during their tenure.

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