Branch Manager - Branch Manager Randstad Employee Review

5.0
29 June 2015
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Pros

The people, the compensation, the autonomy. The people and compensation: even after people leave, they stay in touch with their managers and have certainly built life long friends. We hire great people, provide support and training and whether they succeed or not, is up to them. The opportunity is what you make of it. Autonomy: we don't have micromanagement. You run your own sales desk. We will guide and measure but as long as you are showing effort and hitting clear expectations, you can chart your own adventure.

Cons

It's a competitive environment. It's friendly but everyone here wants to succeed; and wants to see our customers, consultants and company achieve! The way that I look at it, it's much better to deal with internal competition, where we have rules around fair play and you know what your competition is doing versus having us as external competition! Work/life balance, if you are in a sales role, for the first couple of years, there really isn't very much but it's offset by autonomy and a supportive infrastructure.

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Cons

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1.0
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Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Cons

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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