Think Twice Before Accepting a Job at Maxim - Healthcare Recruiter Maxim Healthcare Employee Review

I wish I would have read the reviews before accepting a job at this place. This is one of the most disorganized and greedy organizations I have ever worked for. It is an organization that contributes to the major issue with the healthcare organization, money over quality care. Management doesn’t care about anyone but themselves. They cannot admit they don’t know how to run the home care side of the business. The center I worked for opened a bunch of home care cases and could never fill the cases due to the shortage of nurses and nurses with certain skills needed. It is sad a bunch of people have to go without a competent and caring nurse, because of a broken promise. Nurses are fired frequently, quit on the spot, find a better job, or taken off the case by the client (parent/patient). Even when we had a consistent nurse, more than likely she was difficult to deal with. As a Healthcare Recruiter on the home care side of Maxim, I was excited to become a recruiter since other organizations would not hire me due to lack of experience in the role and now I see why. Being a recruiter is to be one of the best careers in the corporate field, empowering and rewarding and I had some awesome experiences with my previous recruiters for jobs I was hired for, but for the top recruiting agencies or top organizations hiring internal recruiters, one needs 2 to 3 years’ experience. Maxim hires “recruiters” right out of college because it’s an amateur and high stress role that requires duties that have nothing to do with the role. Not only are you a recruiter, but you are a receptionist, secretary, scheduler and HR assistant. They have a main line and you are required to answer it by the second ring if not by the first so you receive every department’s calls and are responsible for forwarding them, even though you have your own work/goals. You get yelled at when you have forwarded the call to the wrong person or did not screen it; that makes no sense. The work environment is unprofessional. Recruiters and Field Support are out in the open with desks side by side so there is a lot of noise and distractions from other people’s conversations and your business (personal or job related) is out in the open. It also promoted pretentiousness, and that was very annoying. You have the watch your back because if you do not agree with employees, they will turn on you. The office has too many managers; there is one for the site, staffing, HR and clinical (2 supervisors as well) so you are made to feel like you are everyone’s assistant. Working with clinical was the worst. One member was tacky with her personal stories, complaints about everyone under the sun and took over conversations to pump up her head up. Management is narrow minded and untrustworthy. I read a review about this role where one former employee said he never felt his job was secure and I felt the same. Talk about a “who's boss” type of attitude. My manager was very fickle and would act like he understood the problems, but then turn around, change his mind, and act like the employee who spoke up was the problem. He also was too emotional at times. He would talk to his employees like we were his children and use certain language which pushed me over the edge and told him to watch his mouth. He would always find something negative about someone. He also was a schmoozer. In the interview and during my first couple weeks here, he complained about the unprofessionalism in the office and said he was moved there to fix the problems earlier in 2017 and liked my professionalism and knew I could be the one to help fix them problems, but when I finally got into the role and explained the problems, he would always have some type of excuse or try to fix them, but then hold a grudge. This organization tricks you into thinking that with your hard work, tenacity and intelligence, you can fix the issues, but when you point out procedures and policies that are causing the issues, they have a rebuttal and get offended. I was told that the role I chose was a career not a job, and it’s completely a JOB. Overworked, unvalued… only about a paycheck. The turnover is extreme. Just this year I was at least the 7th person to resign and it was a small office worked in. I could not even last 3 months and I gave my notice before I accepted another job. As time progressed, secrets started revealing. The office I worked in has a history of high turnover and people quitting on the spot. The entire office is new (managers and all) every 1 to 2 years. And it’s not just this office. It’s a nationwide issue. Thank goodness I don’t work there anymore.