RGP Reviews

Former Employee – worked at RGP

Pros – They give out goodies, have parties and award you when customers compliment your work.

Cons – They leave you with too much bench time and threaten to never use you again if you work in the interim for another company. Their reimbursement of expenses isn't always timely.

Advice to Senior Management – Manage your inventory of employees to meet your clients needs and no black balling when employees work for other companies to have income.

Current Employee – been working at RGP

Pros – Employee longevity and loyalty, stability

Cons – Limited sales commission but comfortable base

Advice to Senior Management – Always listen to customers

Former Employee – worked at RGP

Pros – -Consulting jobs require the highest level of experience. Not likely that a very senior person will be asked to do low level work just for billable hours.
-Choice on what projects to take. That means no travel if you don't want and its not held against you!
-No overtime unless the client pays you for it.
-Great Managing Director and team working hard to keep you staffed between projects.

Cons – -Little training offered or difficult to access it if available.
-Didn't feel like an employee of RGP but more connected to the client culture.

Advice to Senior Management – -Your model is a refreshing change from the other big firms and ensures that the right people are staffed on the right projects always. Keep up the great work and expand your service offerings.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at RGP

Pros – Overall, a nice bunch of people, some screwballs. Most companies are 40 hour weeks, nice if you have a part time business.

Cons – 2 to 4 weeks downtime between assignments. CSD's have favorites, could help or hurt you. CSD's don't listen to consultants.

Advice to Senior Management – Get back to your roots and realize that your best assets for the business is the consultant. Spend more time listening and less time talking about growing the business.

Current Employee – been working at RGP

Pros – Almost without exception, the consultants from Resources Global Professionals have been smart, collegial, and hard working. The management seems genuinely concerned about the company's consultants and dedicated to their success. They really are more than a headhunting firm...the look for loyalty and long term relationships with their consultants. The benefits are good and the stock purchase plan can be lucrative when the stock price is rising.

Cons – The company does project work and pays by the hour. Though they work hard to keep employees staffed, beach time does occur in some of the smaller practices/markets. It can be tough on the pocketbook. If you need a steady paycheck, this reality can make things difficult at RGP.

Advice to Senior Management – Giving consultants more opportunities to assist with business development- as well as have some opportunities to maintain income during bench time for some of the smaller practices and markets would allow even better retention of top consultants.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at RGP

Pros – Flexible, high quality, dynamic environment where management works with your strengths and weaknesses.

Cons – You have to be willing to live with insecurity, but, in this market, there is no such thing as a permanent job.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more opportunities for associate/consultant interaction.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at RGP

Pros – May work for some folks that want a flexible work model and are looking for opportunities to stay busy and are not so picky about work content and purpose.

They have good parties

Cons – Unprofessional Environment

Interfacing with the client are a GQ 30 something crowd that wear nice clothes and take staff out to dinner and throw parties but have virtually no understanding of client specific needs - nothing more than a body shop with a "throw it up against the wall to see if it sticks" quality philosophy.

Consultants they hire tend to be seasoned professionals that are often capable enough to make this model work in spite of itself!

You really operate in this environment as a contractor "light" - they throw you a minimal benefits set but utilization risk rests entirely with you. Another key point, since the company has no independent appraishal of your skill set, effeciveness, performance you are highly vulnerable to the vagaries of firm/client skuttlebut and chemistry/non performance factors and I have seen some very capable people wash out because an originally poor fit results in spurious feedback and you are entirely on your own. Sniping often occurs when staff is place alongside other consulting firms or threaten other client agenda's and feedback (and the lack of forethought concerning appropriate role/accountability) and I have seen good people screwed from this.

The also tell you its up to you when and what you work on but as a practical matter you are naturally locked into the opportunity pool currently facing the firm and so this does not work in practice - large dysfunctional firms that are required by the outside world to throw money at a problem (SEC, DA, etc.) are this firms bread and butter. I have seen staff who are former CFO's performing bank reconciliations at ridiculous rates and former staff accountants teed up to the client as transitional controllers - no rhyme or reason. But they do have good parties!

Advice to Senior Management – Dont know what to say - theyy were never inclined to listen

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at RGP

Pros – You might get lucky and they have a real position to put you into! If they do, you get paid hourly like any other contractor.

Cons – They recruit you using language like a permannet position saying "We have an opportuinty with a Client for a position doing Planning". What they really mean is this - if you are willing to go thru our background check, we will build a profile from your resume to try to create demand to start a project up with this client. We will pay you nothing and you are expected to help win the business you thought we had that we were recruiting you for.

Also, their Medical Insurance does not kick in until you have been working there for 60 days!

If you are on the bench, you are unemployed period. My career planners warned me about this - I tried it out for myself. It is true. There were more people on the bench (looking for a job anywhere they could find it) but Resources Global still counted them as their resource.

The consultant bears all the risk here in this relationship. It is very misleading.

Advice to Senior Management – Be up front. The only difference between you and the low end contract firms is that Resources Global does do a more strenous check - but you offer less in many cases than the low end contract firms. Youoffer more to the client, and the employees get much less.
Resources Global needs to be an actual Employer - not an over rated Subcontracting firm.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at RGP

Pros – Good gig if you only want part time work and can handle a lot of benchtime sitting around waiting for your next job.

Cons – Sporadic work. Boring assignments. Assignments typically much shorter than originally contracted for. Recruiters and Client Service Directors give you constant lip service about upcoming opportunities they are working on.

Advice to Senior Management – Come up with some form of benchtime compensation plan for up to 2 months.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at RGP

Pros – Work Life Balance, Limited Travel,

Cons – Cost structure (hourly rate) has benefits (more work = more pay) and drawbacks

Advice to Senior Management – Consider how to expand into other merging areas (SCM, Lean SIx Sigma) to compete with Accenture (given purchase of George Group and HB Maynard).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend