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Chimera Recruitment Reviews

3.9

81% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)

Reeda Ouzerdine; Daniel Horner; Ryan Cerenko

71% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Chimera Recruitment has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Chimera Recruitment employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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38 reviews
1.0
13 Jan 2019

Make sure you know what you're in for...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

The only reason I have given it one star is because I have to and one of the staff members was rather helpful when finding me a shift and I appreciate his effort in doing so.

Cons

One thing you should know if you're deciding whether or not to sign up to an agency is that they only care about the clients. Fair enough, they get paid by the clients whereas you are more of a tool for the means. So if you're not up for that then agency work isn't really for you. Unfortunately, the way Chimera acted when deciding not to keep me on their books was highly unprofessional and in my opinion inappropriate. For a company that deals with sales I believe they might want to work on their ability to communicate accurately and fairly with their temp staff. They sent a generic email of reasons to terminate my employment and when I called up to inquire further they back tracked on the content of the email and essentially brought it down to one point that had nothing to do with my ability to actually do the job. If what I did was so heinous then how did they ever manage to find me any other shifts? Essentially it was a quiet time and they needed an excuse to drop people from their books. In the short time I was with Chimera, they failed to record one of my shifts and despite the fact I sent in a time sheet, no one thought to get back to me over the confusion and just didn't pay me until I had to chase them up. I provided them with plenty of availability and was only given six shifts in over a month, three of which were last minute and more often than not I wasn't given a shift at all.

1.0
7 June 2022

Money hungry

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay Sunday pay is decent

Cons

Micromanagement Unorganised Too many last-minute shifts Not guaranteed shifts every week

3.0
30 Dec 2021

Decent

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They hand out quite a lot of work, the hours aren't too long, you can choose your availability.

Cons

You have to email a timesheet after every shift that needs to be signed by the manager where you're working, otherwise you won't get paid on time, since it's agency work, you don't get commission but the people that are working with you in the shop get to earn commission off the work you do, lastly, there isn't a guarantee of shifts.

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