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An honest truth - Consultant NonStop Consulting Employee Review

3.0
20 Sept 2015
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Pros

After reading lots of reviews, i wanted to write an honest article. One which differs from the shameless self promotion of the company, or the extremely negative reviews and false allegations of scam. Pros- supportive enviroment and friendly staff. Everyone is approachable and helpful. The trainers and workshops really develop you as a recruiter while affording you more time to succeed where as other agencies will expect results or the door in 2 months. Nonstop has allowed people to stay 6-12 months or more with no results (billings) as they see potential in those certain consultants.Staff favouritism may have played a part. Commisison is great as you get it in pound sterling which translated to cz currency is loads of money in a vastly cheaper country. Chance to move to other offices.But you must first hit certain targets first. Targets are doable and to be honest, normal days work for a recruiter. Pardubice- 100k population, nice city, has everything you need and cheaper than the UK. Great for your training period. Being abroad also alows you to form tight bonds with your colleagues and real friendships. Great for after work in what truly is a stressful enviroment. Good promotion and commission structure. Excellent bonus once you start billing and the company truly has a meritocratic enviroment. If you can hack working in recruitment and improve you will make money! Prague is beautiful city and if you are organised you can take advantage of the central european location to travel.

Cons

Very much an orwellian enviroment were all your actions and calls are monitored. They call it 'QA'. Recruitment is a very stressful job. To succeed you must become a machine. If you cannot hack making 80-100 calls a day and come in on weekends then its not for you. Secondly, all of that and you have to still show great patience, as you may not bill for months even with that hard work. In the end recruitment depends on your candidates performance at interview regardless of the work you put in. The location - Pardubice, will bore you after a few months, for those coming from big cities eg london, it will shock you in a week or two. Though being here also raises it morale as you see your colleagues everyday, it also lowers it when people get fired and you end up talking about work after work to add to your stress. High turnover- you will see the majority of your friends or your group leave or go on to compeletely eclipse you. You must have tunnel vision to succeed. Your development will hinge on the team leader you get as much as your own ability, naturally some will be much better than others.Politics has meant that the more incompetent team leaders of which there at least 3, remain in their posts. Though they are acknowledged as useless. BUT the czech base wage though good for there is well below minimum wage in the uk. Essentially you are being paid peanuts. Client calls give new trainees unrealistic expectations of how a BD call will go. Every thursday there is an extra 2 hours unpaid calling time. 'Early evening focus' a nice way of titling what is essentially free labour for the company. Likewise new trainees should be briefed before coming over on the earning base wage, time to truly move offices: 8-9 months and other facts of similar ilk.

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NonStop Consulting Response
9y
Thanks for taking the time to leave such in depth feedback. We appreciate all feedback as we continuously strive to improve. While we do still have some people in Pardubice, we have significantly expanded our Prague office over the last year and many of our people have relocated there. This was done following a staff survey which found people would prefer to live and work in Prague if given the choice. QA, our Quality Assurance team, is not a policing tool but rather a training and development tool. They do look into the work practices of employees but only to help those people identify and overcome developmental hurdles. Recruitment may be stressful for some but it is a career where you don't have to take work home with you like teachers or lawyers might. Many consultants choose to put in extra hours in the evening and/or weekends because they can see the results - more placements, more commission. Any company that takes on large groups of people with no prior experience with the view to giving them training and development will see a slightly higher than average staff turnover. Some of these people will realise recruitment is not the right career for them but we are happy to continue investing in such people until they make such decision and hope that those who decide to leave do so with some additional skills and knowledge. The basic salary is the Prague average salary and though it may seem low when converted to Euros to Pounds, the cost of living in Prague is a lot lower than in London, for example. Because our business model is based around training, coaching and mentoring, switching team leaders isn't really practical as coaching takes time. Some of the more senior team leaders hold wider training sessions though so everyone has the ability to learn from a wider group.

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