At-Tech Reviews

I was told to lie about having jobs so I could bring people in to get leads from them as in where they were working at so I could call their bosses to see if they had job orders. I also had to lie to unemployed people, telling them there were jobs when there weren't. I said I felt bad because of the gas/hope I was giving them when there were no jobs to fill. I was told to suck it up and I'd have to meet my quota. My managers came and went and no one knew what they were doing. I was a recruiter but had to train full desk people who lied about having experience when they didn't have any. Lots of gossip and backstabbing. This company didn't pay my vacation or commissions when I left. I made the most commission so they got rid of me. They had laid off the secretary weeks before that so I was doing payroll and answering phones. I had to go to the labor board to get my money and I got most of it by the way, even though they tried lying. When you leave/fire you, they won't pay your vacation. How horrible! My manager also tried to get me to work weekends and after the office closed and even lied to me about how there was a new law that 48 hours was mandatory full time. When I was sick, she wouldn't let me leave the office. I am so thankful I don't have to work for such scumbags.

This is an unstable environment with a lot of turn over. The core team doesn't want anyone to come in from the outside and work harder than they do because that would threaten them so they are unfriendly to any new employee from the start. Poor management style due to lack of training and favoritism to certain employees. They hire a new technical recruiter every few months due to turn over and when a new recruiter starts, the recruiter quickly finds out that they are only working with telecommunications job orders and there aren't any technical job orders to work on. As a new member of the team, you are required to work a full desk and generate your own accounts which isn't bad except for the fact that the core team (the employees who are favored and not let go) isn't required to do the same, they only recruit for the telecommunications requisitions and do not cold call for any new accounts or make calls to reactivate accounts that hadn't done business with them in a long time. The favorites of the team have been given the telecommunications accounts for ongoing account management and these accounts are the only accounts they work on. Once the new technical recruiters have landed a few new accounts and made a couple of placements, they are terminated and the core team continues to work those accounts and candidates. After which, they are not worked correctly due to lack of training so once again the only job orders that are worked on is the telecommunications which were handed to them. Then, time to hire a new recruiter to bring in more business for the core team.