Terrible toxic culture - Technical Recruiter Kforce Employee Review

1.0
24 June 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

team members are supportive. Candidates are usually great people to talk to.

Cons

Kforce's upper management does not support the members of the team that are struggling, they will only lift up and give opportunities to those that upper management favor. Always want to fire people rather than train/help them. Your manager will not fight for you, if anything happens they will throw you under the bus without a second thought and you can not fight back as that as seen as attitude and will threaten to fire you. They don't care about the circumstances of a situation or if the roles they assigned you are unqualified, have no approved funding, no Hiring Manager control, they only care about unrealistic metrics and numbers that only half the team can hit. They expect you to work overtime and to accept any abuse from candidates, clients, or coworkers with a smile and if you fall they will team up to discipline and make an example out of you. They pretended to care about Black Lives Matter but fired the only 2 team members of color first chance they had.

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Kforce Response
5y
These comments do not reflect the environment Kforce stridently maintains, from the top down, nor do they reflect the engaging and meaningful work experiences we strive to provide. I’d very much like to have a confidential conversation. Please reach out to me at jschwaller@kforce.com. - Jessica Schwaller, Senior Director of HR

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Cons

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Please know that what you describe in your review does not mirror the experience we aim to provide our employees. If you’d like to discuss this with a member of our HR team, reach out to KforceCares@kforce.com. Thank you.
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