Volt Information Reviews

Pros

I like working at Volt because:
-Good communication with management
-Supportive managers
-Knowledgeable resources and opportunity for training
-Nice teams, good people on staff

Cons

Things I dislike about working with Volt:
-Very strong focus on metrics that may be unattainable or outdated
-Apply the same standards/metrics to all teams

Advice to Senior Management

Please continue to support your teams and their opportunities for growth. Drive business goals while keeping in mind that your teams and team members want to be successful so setting attainable goals/metrics is important.

Pros

schedule bids are nice
decent pay for the job you do
set hours are nice
benefits that are industry standard

Cons

no communication
no advancement opportunities
lack of respect
lack of proper training

Advice to Senior Management

create proper training and follow up guidelines, proper review, not just call audits

Pros

Experience of the team members

Cons

Benefits are poor and PTO should be offered.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication of company initiatives

Pros

This is a family oriented environment where Volt is steadfast to help out when the chips are down, good morale boosting events, excellent training group in place for internal employees, great teams who collaborate well and think outside of the box.

Cons

Noisy environment makes it difficult to concentrate on tasks, computers need to be faster, database needs to be improved upon for candidates searching for jobs

Advice to Senior Management

Provide employees with working tools that are fast, up-to-date systems with no downtime, slow computers or system crashes and improve upon and come up to speed on social media to be implemented for staffing across all divisions.

Pros

They pay at this assignment is good.

Cons

Due to the assignment, after 1 year, I have to spend 100 days away from this job before I can come back and continue my career.

Pros

Every Volt employee involved in my recruitment and hire for a temporary position was gracious and kind. If they could not answer a question immediately, they got back to me.

Cons

As a contract employee, I felt a bit of pressure not to accept a temp assignment while actively pursuing full time work, because if I left the temp assignment early, it would reflect poorly on Volt's relationship with its client employers. However, the contract verbiage indicated that either party could terminate the contract without explanation.

Advice to Senior Management

Explain the contract verbiage about either party being empowered to end the contract without explanation before a potential temp accepts or declines a position.

Pros

-great customer service
-corporate environment
-many opportunities to prove abilities
-enjoyable people to work with
-flexible schedules
-management will work with employees if employee has personal issues

Cons

-outdated / insufficient technology (computers are extremely slow, countless opportunities for automation ignored / rejected, need more tools and software)
-high turnover (high impact to business operations and progress)
-unprofessional environment
-dirty / messy offices
-politics over skill
-executive management does not communicate well nor consult subject matter experts when making decisions

Advice to Senior Management

pay your employees more or do something about your turnover. it's destroying possibilities to stay competitive when you spend weeks training a new employee while the trainer's work falls behind. become a professional company that people will want to do business with and create a professional environment that people will take seriously. be creative and invest in technology, there are too many people scared to step forward. focusing on saving money and creating incentives is great but don't forget about operations and morale. volt is not as well known to most people as *another staffing company*, do something about exposure. stop announcing it's break on the intercom, some people are on the phone and we aren't in elementary school anymore.

Pros

Different opportunities with a variety of organizations

Cons

Low level of contract employee support and self-service options

Advice to Senior Management

Virtualize how employees can manage their records.

Pros

people, money and the path for promotion

Cons

software is outdated and they can focus on trivial matters sometime.

Advice to Senior Management

hire younger recruiters and train

Pros

Mostly left alone to do my job for the client (MSFT) - employee relations folks are decent.
Not a lot of micromanaging
Short and long term opportunities - lots of clients in the area and lots of jobs

Cons

Rules of clients like MSFT about length of contract/breaks
No real ownership - you aren't an employee of the client and Volt doesn't really do much to "pump you up" and bring about positive morale

Advice to Senior Management

Try to establish some sort of culture for your contractors - allow for networking amongst contractors - you never know when those contractors will get hired on as FTE's and be looking for your people to fill out their teams.