Pros
I had spent the last 18 months at Celeris Partners as a search consultant handling recruitment within the consultancy space. I have been rewarded with the opportunity to work on very exciting roles and develop a network in a space that I found very interesting. I covered Switzerland and Germany, you get the opportunity to work globally, meet talented and smart individuals. Culture - I got along with my colleagues very well and bonded many times over lunches out. No cliques, a welcoming and international culture. Management was very considerate in giving me the time necessary to build a network to start my billings. Recruitment is a sales job, There are KPI's that must be hit in order to do the job well. However, they have been very fair with numbers to be achieved on a daily/weekly/monthly and quarterly basis. There is a heavy emphasis on quality over quantity I think the business is very fair in these aspects. Sales jobs often do not come with work life balance, it was never expected of me to work over hours whilst sometimes the nature of the work means you have to.. I was able to have great work life balance and the slightly earlier finish on Friday's is always welcome. The salaries are very competitive in fact higher than market rate and you are well rewarded. I leave the business at the end of April to take on an internal recruitment opportunity that felt better suited to my skillset and where I will choose to develop further in my career. I would not have been able to do this without the experience, support and development I had gained at Celeris Partners. I am very grateful to the team and opportunity I was provided with.
Cons
Recruitment is a tough business, you are dealing with complex markets but is truly rewarding when you can impact the lives of others. Sales elements, the ups and downs that come with recruitment... that doesn't change no matter what business you are part of. Truthfully, I believe that the only con and it is still functional in fairness.. is the CRM being a little dated. A modernised recruitment CRM can take a lot of the Admin burden away and if I were to have one improvement suggestion, it would be to update this. That said, the CRM is very useable and still does what you need it to do on a basic level.