Don't fall into the same trap I did! - Anonymous employee Harnham Employee Review

2.0
12 Jan 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Average social side, lots of young and like minded individuals, regular socials, a definiteive drinking culture, free fruit, one very clean male toilet for the whole office.

Cons

The management team are unrealistic. 12 hour days, ridiculous "targets", key accounts are handed to the boys club, the company is ran by a team of favourites, if you don't identify with them, you'll not progress. The office is in zone 3, don't believe the lies on the website about it being close to London "the place for all the best graduate jobs etc." , Wimbledon is a leafy suburb, and this is not a job worthy of a graduate. You'll be shown through "training", where they will essentially "teach" you how to cold call 500 (give or take) people per week. A well trained space monkey could manage this. Don't believe the lies about data and analytics, harnham, the ludicrous salary expectations, many people you call have never heard of Harnham. As if it's not bad enough hearing your own voice recorded, managers will play back your calls and laugh at you, make out that you are stupid for not knowing the ins and outs of analytics, if you did, then you'd be a data scientist, not an irritating cold caller. Coercing people to take a job through a barrage of emails and phone calls is not a way to make a living. Make sure you know what recruitment is before you fall into this trap. You'll be earning 20k and desperately looking for a way out. But hey, at least you're in London!

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Harnham Response
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Many thanks for leaving a review and firstly, apologies that things didn’t work out for you at Harnham. We’ve always put a high emphasis on training & are really proud that a lot of the leaders of our business were grown organically. We try to cover a variety of training methods within our graduate programme as we are aware that everyone learns differently, so we’re sorry that you didn’t enjoy some of them. ‘Key accounts’ are looked after by a designated team. Roles are passed to relevant teams in the business but consultants are not ‘handed’ accounts if they haven’t done the work to deserve them. If you would like to expand on this point (or any of your other feedback), please do get in touch. Wimbledon is indeed a leafy suburb, but I’m not sure how this makes it a job not worthy of graduates? Thanks again for your review & good luck with your next role.

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