Pros
-Energy and the positivity from everyone -People in "the pit" have great personalities and rarely do you rub someone the wrong way -Great opportunity if you want to stay in this industry -I made great friends with most of the people I worked with here and maintained all the relationships post-IGI
Cons
-Unless you want to be a recruiter, an account manager basically forever (rarely do people actually get promoted to sales manager or higher), or want to stay in the staffing industry, there's not much room for career growth here. -The actual hours of the job when you're with the company for over 4 months are 7:10AM-5:45PM. Maybe even longer with OOCs. -Out of the 100+ account managers, only about the top 10 percent of them are actually making the money they said you could make. -Stability is volatile in this company so one day you could put in $3,000 in spread and the next day you could lose $5,000 in spread from something out of left field. I've seen an AM drop from ~20k to ~5k overnight (9 months of work gone overnight). As you can imagine, coupled with this comes extreme stress and anxiety. -There's a 70% turnover rate or close to within the first year. I saw about 20 people come and go within a year and a quarter. -At times I didn't feel that I was being treated in an adult manner. For instance, I was only allowed to have lunch between 11:30-12:30 or 12:30-1:30. No ifs, ands, or buts. You're also basically being watched at all times in the office so if you leave 10 minutes late for lunch (because you're tied up in work) and come back 10 minutes late, you took too long of a lunch and are subject to disciplinary measures. -A lot of micromanagement in this company. -Any negativity in any way, shape, or form is instant grounds for discipline. You could be having the worst day but displaying that emotion is risky. Putting on a smile is always necessary. -Recruiters have to wear a full suit and tie, shave, and come to work with shined shoes, even though 60% of the days, you only interface with internal employees. -In the hierarchy of the company, professional recruiters are most of the time looked at as 2nd class to account managers. In reality, they are equal in status. -Friday recruiter meetings become redundant and monotonous.
