Great place to work - Associate Consultant River Partnership Employee Review

- Excellent leadership; regular weekly appraisals help keep performance on track. You are able to have frank conversations that never feel confrontational or overly KPI focused - Reasonably rapid promotion if you do well - as a junior employee make about four placements and you're on your way - Opportunity to develop own ideas and pursue new business ideas - a lot of freedom (providing you can make the business case!) - You work with genuinely high-tier clients: River punches above its weight in this regard - Doesn't feel to "salesy" - the atmosphere of the company echoes that of that of its tier 1 clients - there's no "boiler room" style feel - Good company nights out and reward schemes for good performance

- Not really something River should worry about fixing, as I understand the reasoning behind it: be aware that while you are an "Associate Consultant" (so for graduates/junior employees) your commission is capped at a few hundred pounds per placement, which can suck a little when you make a high-value placement! This ceases to be an issue once you've been promoted (Consultant+) as River's commission is very competitive from that point on. I believe that one of the reasons River does this is because it means there's more incentive for junior employees to make those initial placements and get promoted!

I’ve been a search consultant at River for just under three years. It’s been an exciting few years, tough at times but very rewarding. We’ve helped to build a search business literally from scratch. It’s obviously had it’s challenges but its been incredibly rewarding. I’ve been part of retained and contingent campaigns across Europe and Asia for genuinely Tier 1 brands. Management really care about development and I’ve benefited from a great deal of internal and external development. The commission is very good and there’s a real opportunity to progress quickly in terms of increased responsibility, account man, team leadership etc.

As we’re growing the infrastructure can be stretched at times. You only get back what you put in and it can be hard work! We’re still a small team working at close quarters so one awkward personality in the ranks can have an adverse effect...