Pros
- You get the opportunity to work with industry leading clients.
Cons
I worked for Technology Recruitment London and it ended up being the most depressing job I've ever had for the following reasons: - There is no career path at all which is very odd for a recruitment agency. There were never any targets in place to get promoted. - Most of the Senior Management Team have been promoted not because they've earned/deserve it but because of the amount of time they've been working for the company. - The training they offer is terrible and consists solely of having themed sessions with under qualified managers. Graduates are sold on joining because there is supposedly good training when in reality it's pretty much non-existent. Harvey Nash's competitors offer much better, structured training. - The management team bully their staff. I've seen Consultants been reduced to tears on the sales floor before. - It's the most KPI driven environment I've ever worked. KPI stats have to be reported daily and every Wednesday to a senior director. It's suffocating. - The commission structure is awful. As a contract recruiter you are paid on the initial deal value not timesheets through the door like most recruitment companies. This means you are liable to clawback and crucially if contracts extend the rate of commission is less. The commission structure for a permanent recruiter is equally bad. - Basic salary is well below market rate. There is no salary banding so everyone is on a different basic which causes bad feeling in the office. Given that there are no targets to get promoted or pay rise I felt stuck on that salary. - The incentives are rubbish verging on non existent. Every sales company should have good incentives and at Harvey Nash they are seriously few and far between or un-achievable for most. - Graduates joining are not put on full commission to start with. In the banking and finance practise for example graduate consultants have to do 10 deals before they are put on full commission which is not the industry norm at all. - They are not focussed on delivery to their clients which in this market is backward. They are much more interested in winning new clients but less focussed on delivery. They have an offshore team in Vietnam and they expect them to source CV's for you which in my opinion is not giving the best service to their clients. They market it as a 24/7 CV sourcing solution but in reality they expect the team in Vietnam to find CV's and Consultants in London to do Business Development. - I've never worked anywhere where so many people are unhappy which is depressing. - An email got sent round last year from the Talent Team asking employees to come here and give positive reviews as there were so many bad ones. For me that shows the company is not genuine. - I genuinely think Senior Management have no idea how bad it is to be a Consultant working for them.
