Robert Half reviews

Long hours - you will work every day from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. if not longer. There is an "unwritten code" among the team that you shouldn't take too long for lunch or be out of the office too often. The metrics are almost unreachable; while you're there, you'll hardly have time to breath before you have to get on that next phone call. They employ the sales tactics of used cars salesmen - they want you to be pushy and overly aggressive to the point you've annoyed your clients. They only care about the almighty dollar, not the candidates or the clients. They'll stick with 6-10 core candidates and place them on several different projects just to make money for themselves rather than place a new candidate. They will tell you that you have a year to "ramp up" to where they want you to be. However, if you're not quite where they want you to be after 3 months or so, they'll let you go. There were 3 people let go during the short time I was there and one person left on their own. VERY HIGH TURNOVER. Little to no training about the recruiting or technical side of the creative industry. If you have no experience with creative/marketing/advertising, or recruiting, forget it.

Again, you need to hustle! If you expect to come in, fake your cold calls/client visits, and relax, you're in for a rude awakening. The turnover is high, and for a reason. Management expects a lot from you. You'll be micromanaged on almost everything when you're a new employee or if you're not meeting your numbers. They'll question you on your dials, how many people you talk to and visit, what notes you write, when you can look at email, your chit chat with coworkers, etc. A lot of staffing managers won't last 6 months - whether on their own terms or because they get let go. You'll work long hours in the beginning, and stress to the point where you'll hate Sundays for the pure reason that "it" starts all over Monday. It's a tough, tough industry. You'll have rude clients, rude candidates, and high and lows you've never experienced before. One day, you'll break into a new client and feel a great sense of satisfaction and think "Wow, I'm happy, I could stay with this company." You'll give an unemployed candidate the job and they'll be so thankful, and you'll be on cloud 9. The next day, your temp candidate doesn't show up to work, and you lose the client to the competition. That's life in staffing. It's the craziest love-hate relationship you will ever experience. You can become manic, bipolar, depressed, happy, estatic all within 24 hours. Candidates/temps will make you (in my opinion) the most miserable. Some are GREAT workers and you can't help but love them and wish the best for them. Others just don't understand why they can't find a job through you. They'll leave you nasty voicemails and send you poorly-written emails basically telling you how horrible you are and how much you suck. Candidates also think you make money just by interviewing them - a rumor that will make you Hulk-like angry EVERYTIME you hear it. They have no idea what it's like to be in staffing. Many are angry because of their work situation, and they will take it out on you. Other candidates, whom you find work for, will quit (the excuses you'll receive are mind-blowing) mainly because they don't want to work, or they just won't show up period. Yet they don't understand why they still haven't found a permanent job. Mind you, some excuses are legitimate, but unless they're in staffing, they won't see the repercussions that happen to you because they decided not to go to work.