Tatum Reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(94 total reviews)
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Dominic Lévesque

61% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Tatum has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 94 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tatum employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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1.0
4 Oct 2017
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Pros

There were many promises, but none of it materialized. I thought I was joining a high-end brand, but as I was told later, the Glassdoor rating that I used in part to make my decision was artificially inflated by an internal campaign to "pump the number up". It's pretty obvious to me now when I look at the ratings trend.

Cons

In the time that I’ve been here, nearly every Office Managing Partner (ten in total) and Talent Partner has departed. Several weeks back, we lost two of our top producers in the private equity space, our strategic accounts lead and another Office Managing Partner. This collection of bright people is seeing the transformation of Tatum and electing not to be part of this company going forward. That cohort of people are the ones that understood this business - not the staffing industry transplants with car salesman mentality.

1.0
31 Aug 2016

Once Great Company is Now Struggling

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Tatum offers outstanding professional experiences, usually at the "C suite" level with companies in a variety of of industries, as well as a wide range of sizes and organizational maturities. The work is usually challenging and interesting, the clients sincerely appreciate you are helping them through whatever difficult circumstances they may be navigating, and my engagements while at Tatum were consistently very satisfying.

Cons

The firm has struggled some since its acquisition by Randstad in 2011. The corporate overhead cost allocation from Randstad that Tatum must build into its engagement pricing is crushing. Typically this overhead allocation either makes the price at which Tatum offers to provide a senior executive too far above the competition to be seriously considered, or else the portion of the engagement fee able to be paid out to the Tatum Partner doing the engagement work is significantly reduced, clearly a "lose-lose" recipe.

1.0
15 Sept 2015

No Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Middle market and private equity focus at the CFO and CIO level. True C level opportunities for execs, just not enough to keep anyone working year round. Great international platform from Randstad to grow on if a business model can be determined and followed consistently. New president Kathryn Bolt - maybe she can finally pull the firm together.

Cons

No consistent national strategy Poor pipeline Revenue trending down for 5 straight years Not well integrated with Parent Company, Randstad Lots of leadership turnover Lots of poor performers across the country Will it survive?

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