Robert Half International Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Robert Half International full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Fast paced, rewarding, real growth opportunities, challenging, great team environment

Cons – Nothing to report as a con at RHI

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline the hiring process quicker

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Robert Half International full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – -No day is the same, very fast paced environment
-Better system in place compared to other agencies
-Real competitive base with lucrative commision structure
-Great trainers and leaders, RHI structure is hard to immitate
-Good team environment

Cons – -Longer hours
-Not for everyone
-Learning curve can be tough

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Robert Half International full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – If you're in a city with a good team, work is fun. Amazing $ potential. I was able to make 6 digit income by year 2 with company and around $200k every year after. If you put your time and effort into building your book of business, it is possible. I was lucky to be in a group with a supportive team and manager. Work day is always full of jokes and laughter with team.

Cons – Cons - takes time to build trust with senior team members. High pressure work environment. I'm a high performer but still feel stressed and loose sleep when having a bad month. Long work hours. Seems like every year corporate changes compensation plan to benefit company at the employees expense.

Advice to Senior Management – APPRECIATE your employees. We are out there working extremely hard for ourselves and the company. Only to be rewarded by compensation plan changing NOT to our benefit every year. How long do you think your top performers will continue to put up with this year after year? Our loyalty can only last for so long if we continued to be undervalued. Yes, we fully understand and are aware that Sr. Management's 1st priority is to your shareholders....

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Robert Half International full-time for more than a year

Pros – Up to 50% bonus on your billings. Say you bill 300K in a year- you'll make 150K commission on that- and really- who wouldn't want that!

Cons – very competitive- do not enter if you're not willing to deal with very egotistical men.

Advice to Senior Management – Train your staff better... see where people fit in.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Robert Half International full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great benefits and excellent training program available if you are willing to invest in the company and the team to help grow your book of business and recruits for placement. I really like the community conference calls with other RHI offices to gain feedback and tips to better enter the marketplace for your local needs.
Persistence pays off in this company. Turn objections into opportunities with consistent work flow. This can be overwhelming at the start and lots of cold calls but creativity will help you break through in areas you never thought could open doors. Joining local clubs and groups are a great way to build business in this field.

Cons – Limited resources at different branches. I traveled between 3-4 different branches in different states and each had different needs and resources available. My biggest mountain to overcome was the quality of previously recruited individuals and jobs in the database to work from and the objections from the bad reputation that one branch had acquired prior to my arrival. The bad reputation comes from no leadership/management on the local branch level. Review the local branch's reputation to ensure it is a good fit for your drive and personality. No management at one branch for several months caused a tsunami of trouble and turn-over that had to be overcome for several months.

Advice to Senior Management – Continued training sessions and follow-up is great regarding the methods taught by RHI. The micro-manager from out-of-town who goes in and erases the data recorded from a visit with a client is so not cool. Inform the newbies in the beginning that you will be supporting them, not trying to sabotage them by accidentally erasing data while checking on them. That costs thousands of dollars in revenue and makes the entire company look unethical.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Robert Half International full-time for less than a year

Pros – Once again, Robert Half was rated one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Cons – None that I can think of.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Robert Half International full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Most of departments have relax schedules for life work balance

Cons – Some IT department has worst management - poor quality of managers/supervisors, lack of integrity and basic knowledge of IT, make fake numbers, have to be in friend circle. Super micromanage. A place for 100% politics, forget about customer service.

Advice to Senior Management – CIO please pay attention to all levels of IT management. People don' quit the company, they quit managers. Try do some skip level interviews. During annual review, do a 369 degree review, not just top down. Try to empower employee.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Robert Half International full-time for less than a year

Pros – Information on how to do your job is provided in a portal. Actually doing the job is more on your own with limited training...there is not enough time in day to research the portal.

Cons – Micromanagement and focus on daily activity. The inconsistent management. There can be finger pointing among the other divisions with clients and candidates since not every client is on a target list. It is a gray area at times when a job order comes in who actually is receiving credit. The long tenured employees have the relationships with clients and may get job order simply because they know there name even when you did all the work.

Advice to Senior Management – At times there is inconsistent management and process could change depending on activity.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Robert Half International full-time for less than a year

Pros – Able to build your own client base. Good amount of vacation time. Competitive bonus structure. Good 401k and health benefits.

Cons – I am not really sure where to start. The job security is awful. The fired one of my colleagues out of the blue one day after months of telling her how great she was doing. In addition they do not really help you to build leads or determine business strategies. They track your "connects" which is based on the number of clients who answer the phone. You will literally dial over 100 people a day and at times feel robotic. Perhaps the worst thing about this company is the leaders and management. The leaders in my branch were incredibly unprofessional. They would arrive late and leave early. They would gossip about the staffing managers via company email and would constantly snap about small questions. At times management has called other staffing managers "retarted" for not following guidelines properly. It was a truly toxic environment and I left just a few months in. What was worse was that when one of my colleagues presented her discomfort with branch leaders to higher management it was dismissed as that she was unappreciative for what great leaders they were. It actually seems unreal that I actually worked for a company that treated people like this.

Advice to Senior Management – Do not promote people solely based on sales. You definitely need leaders in leadership roles. The corruption within my branch ultimately drove the entire staff away.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Robert Half International full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people, good work life balance (if you are not management ;). Positive working atmosphere. Great parks and trails all around work.

Cons – Not so great work life balance if manager. Average health and retirement benefits.

Advice to Senior Management – Bigger training budget.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend