Do Not Work Here: Toxic, Misleading, Not Worth Your Talents. - Recruiter Kforce Employee Review

1.0
8 June 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not really too many pros at the end of the day, a nice starting salary helps keep you complicit for awhile but is quickly offset by an insurmountable amount of misery.

Cons

You're trained for 2 weeks & then thrown into the game, they say you have 6 months to "ramp up" but most of my colleagues and myself were terminated before we had a real chance to establish ourselves. I had actually been performing at my best (growing business amid a pandemic) when I was terminated, which was later determined as a wrongful termination by the state of Illinois. They fail to follow their own core values, and the Chicago office in particular has a disgraceful leadership team who would cover poor behavior of other leaders by offloading recruiters as scapegoats. It was a white-male dominant environment, and company culture equated to either liking football or being an outcast. I waited months to write this review in an effort to convey the level-headed truth without any lingering resentment, and the way in which I was deceived, misled, and even outright lied to makes this a very toxic experience that I have since grown from, but I would never recommend anyone else waste their time & talents on a company like Kforce in 2020 when there are so many better places of employment.

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Kforce does not support or condone the workplace culture you have described. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and value our diverse workforce. Please contact us directly so that we may investigate your claims.

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