These may not be the most compelling reasons for an employer to condone a day off, but it is true that much of America will be tuned into the game on Sunday.  Last year, a record 111 million viewers tuned in to watch the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers.

While it’s not likely to receive national holiday status anytime soon, we at Glassdoor were curious to see if many people are planning to take time off to recuperate from overzealous Super Bowl celebrations. We also wanted to uncover the productivity level and mood in the office for those who do punch in. Here’s what employees had to say in our Superbowl survey*:

• 20% of employees say that morale is typically better in the office the day after the Super Bowl
• However, 22% of employees also note that it’s commonly a less productive day than usual
• One in ten (8%) employees plan not to work the day after the Super Bowl
• One in ten (9%) employees plan to take Monday off as a vacation
• 3% admit that they will take a ‘sick day’ the Monday after the Super Bowl

When we asked employees if their employers offer any sort of perks on the Monday after the Big Game, several Glassdoor users noted that they are either allowed to work from home, use as a flex day, or have their regular Monday morning meeting postponed for later in the day. Some also reported that their employers buy breakfast for employees the Monday after the game.

What’s your work experience typically been like on the Monday after the Super Bowl? Let us know below.

* Online survey was conducted between 1/28/11 and 2/3/11. Included responses from 500 Glassdoor users including those who are employed (full/part/self) or unemployed but looking.

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“At the office, even the littlest things can set you on edge when they happen every single day,” says Kerry Miller, founder of PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, a humor blog that often highlights annoyed office workers. “You start to think your co-worker is typing extra loudly just to drive you crazy — and then you go crazy stewing over it.”

Since most people spend more time on the job than away from the office, it can be especially difficult to express the feelings that flare up – without getting fired. Ever wish you could tell your co-workers exactly what you’re thinking? We asked real people to vent about their co-workers and they did. Their real feelings may surprise you, which is why they’ve asked to keep some anonymity. Read on to get an inside glimpse of what your co-workers are thinking:

Escaping office annoyances

“Please, for the love of God stop playing this music for the entire office. No one else likes it. No one else cares about your flashback stories to the months you spent following rock bands. It’s super annoying and the year is 2011; your hippie days are long gone. Also, your laptop has a little spot just for your headphones, not sure if you knew.”

- Jessica M., Chicago

“Leave me alone and stop bothering me via all possible electronic mediums. I know what I’m doing and can do it better and quicker than you, but I cannot do it if you are constantly in my face. No one likes a micromanager, so we’ll all be better off if you just let me do my job.”

- Cari B., Marketing associate

“Every time something doesn’t work with your computer, please don’t start taking to it. No one wants to hear you ramble. What you may not realize is that the only thing not working is your head.”

- Eugene K., Chicago

Manners matter

“Next time there’s a team dinner, why don’t you join us? Whatever else you’re doing isn’t as important as keeping up project morale.”

- James D, San Francisco

“To the guy a couple of cubes down, please stop clipping your nails at your desk. It’s so gross. Don’t you have time at home?”

- Brie G., News Editor

Break the bad work habits

“Team, get your butts up in the morning and get to work early. It’s time you accept discipline in your life and become professionals. You don’t have any good excuses. I want to see the effort and ambition or the next person in line will take your seat.”

Jordan P., Sales Manager

“I can tell which of you were in band or theater in high school. We know you like to be the center of attention. Showoffs!”

- Brie G., News Editor

“I’m sorry that you’re stuck training me, but how can you not understand that the better and nicer you train me, the quicker I will learn, be self-sufficient and stop asking questions? So get off your high horse, spend 10 minutes on some training materials, and we’ll all walk away happy.”

- Sabrina B., Marketing Associate

“Your outrageous misogyny and borderline sexual harassment is unconscionable. My name isn’t ‘toots’ or whatever nickname you’ve decided on for this week to further dehumanize me. Don’t wink at me; it doesn’t inspire kinship, it just makes you creepy. Stop staring at women’s legs. News flash: They can see you. And stop assuming that my male counterpart is better at the job than I am simply because he’s a man.

- Christine K., New York

- Originally posted on Aol Jobs by Alina Dizik

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This ability to see inside is an example of a hugely important and very hopeful phenomena, which we call “technology-enabled people power.”  It is forcing companies to become “good companies” – by being good to their employees, their customers, the communities in which they operate, and the environment.

I realize you may be skeptical.  Examples of the “bad guys” doing well are discouragingly common: companies shirk taxes while padding profits, firms foul the planet but keep raking in revenue, and reckless greed on Wall Street goes largely unpunished.  But quietly, thanks to technology-enabled people power, a different and more hopeful era – which we refer to as the “Worthiness Era” – is unfolding.  Increasingly companies will have to do good in order to do well.  Current concepts of “social responsibility” – which are all too often little more than PR efforts or considered nice but not necessary – are ceding to more genuine efforts by companies to become worthy of their employees’ best efforts, their customers’ loyalty, and their investors’ money.

Proof is in the numbers.  We created the Good Company Index™, based on a quantitative rating system of how good companies are as employers, sellers, and stewards.  (Employee ratings on Glassdoor were used as a component of our rating system.)  We used this system to assign a grade – from A to F – to each of the publicly traded Fortune 100 firms.  Then we compared how firms in the same industry performed in relationship to the Good Company grade.  The results are clear and compelling.

Over the previous three years, the company with the higher Good Company Index score performed, on average, more than 4 percentage points better per annum in the stock market than the paired company from the same industry with the lower Good Company Index score.

Most of the differences in stock performance occur when the difference in Good Company Index scores between the two paired companies is three points or greater, corresponding to at least a letter grade in our overall ranking system. Companies outscoring their peers by three points or more on the Good Company Index outperformed them, on average, by 11 percentage points annually in the stock market over the previous three years. T he relative annual performance of each of these twelve industry-matched pairs over the three-year period is displayed in the figure below.

Goodness pays!

Good News — The Good Guys Are Winning! is a post from: Glassdoor Blog

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Read on for some of our favorite funny workplace nicknames, and hope you don’t recognize yourself in the stories!

Miss Cah-Cah

I work at a local day-care center and I am the teacher for the 2-year-old room. My name is Jessica and they are taught to call me Miss Jessica. However, most of them cannot fully speak at that age. A little boy in my class, Dawson, likes to repeat things twice. He heard one of the other teachers call me Miss Jessica and he picked up on the “cah” sound at the end of my name. What do you know, he repeated it and called me “cah-cah.”

Soon all of the other children found out it was a lot easier to say Cah-Cah than Jessica. (For the record “cah-cah” means poop in Spanish!)

I was so embarrassed! All the other teachers laughed and now I am always addressed as Miss CahCah.

– Jessica Morgan

Ms. Bullet

My name is Sherrell Icon, and when I got my funny nickname, FedEx Kinko’s was my employer. I was 24 at the time, and my job entailed making copies for customers and processing shipping requests. There were only four employees at our location.

In the summer of 2008 we were all sitting around the store chatting. I told them that I was saving up for a Bullet, which was a blender/food processor. But I didn’t say that to them, I just called it “the Bullet.” I marveled about the five speeds and its compact size. I told them how life would be easier when I got it and that I had plans for bringing it to work. It wasn’t until then that I noticed their crazed expressions.

My manager warned, “I don’t think this is appropriate!”

“I don’t get it,” I replied. “Why not?”

My co-worker Marquis blurted out, “Isn’t that a sex toy?”

I immediately turned bright red.

At this point my manager made his way over to the computer that I was working on. He burst out laughing when he looked at the Web page for the item, which showed the blender that I was actually talking about.

“Oh! That bullet,” he said with a guffaw.

Everyone crowded around the computer, and they all began laughing hysterically. I was mortified, but I couldn’t help a chuckle myself.

From then on, until I left that job, I was known only as “Ms. Bullet.”

– Sherrell Icon

Sarge

My name is Kristen and I have worked at Sears for about two years. A few months ago, our store received a transfer associate from a nearby store. Her name was Loretta and she was brought in to join my team. We were warned that she likes to be bossy and take control of projects, but my fellow associates and I thought we’d give her a chance.

But on her very first day, she started giving orders. Our uniform code is khaki or black pants and a white or black top. Her first outfit was khaki pants buttoned very high up and a black tee shirt, tucked in. She was a larger woman and this outfit gave her a larger-than-life appearance.

Wanting to at least give her an opportunity to impress me with her work, I tried to push past my bad impression of her appearance. However, as soon as she walked in, she began criticizing my attire. This rubbed me the wrong way, but I tried to just ignore it. Later on, she asked me to help her with the fitting room. When I walked over to the rack of clothes, she handed me a stack of pants and ordered, “Go!” So I went.

As her first shift drew to a close, I had begun to draw my own conclusions about her. By the end of the first week, everyone was pretty peeved at the orders she was giving. When a person tried to explain something to her, she would interrupt them and say, “I understand!” in a clipped tone. When she was giving you instruction on something, you knew when she was finished because she would say, “You can go now,” in that same clipped tone.

So because of the orders that continually barked out of her mouth, my coworkers and I began to call her “Sarge,” short for “Sergeant.” We don’t call her this to her face because none of us can get along with her, but we always do behind her back. If you ask someone, “who are you working with tonight?” the answer is never Loretta, it is always Sarge.

We hoped her bossiness was going to be a short-lived thing, but unfortunately it seems as though it’s here to stay. So instead of being angry with her, we have created a whole joke about her. We mock her constantly between ourselves, giving “commands” and then dismissing them from our presence. It is annoying when she is there, but when she isn’t, we sure have a blast making fun of her.

– Kristen Angelo

Little One

I’m a high-school teacher at a medium-size high school in eastern North Carolina. I work with about 90 teachers, ranging from the ages of 24 to 65. I am on the front end of that age group at 28. My nickname came about after I had my little girl, Emma. I lost a lot of baby weight very fast and I’m only 5 feet tall. So I pretty much looked like a house of cards about to fall over. Skinny was an understatement.

Looking back, I can see how the nicknames for me started flying. The most popular was started by this older man at my workplace. He calls me “Little One.”

He is my parents’ age (60) and thinks he has to be a father figure, to both me and the students. But I still couldn’t believe it when I was walking down the hall during a class change (when all the students are scrambling to their classrooms before the tardy bell) and I hear him yell “Little One” at me, for all the kids to hear. I just tried to ignore him and dipped into another hallway, walking fast to my classroom so I didn’t have to acknowledge it.

But the nickname is spreading, to other school personnel. However, they are changing a few of the words to make their nickname for me seem original. Some other versions turning up are “Little Bit,” “Short Stuff” and “Peanut.” So now I’m not only sounding like a short person, but also a 6-year-old little girl. It is driving me crazy!

To top it all off, the principal is now in on the banter, except his addition are lame jokes. Let me know if you’ve heard them:

“You’re so skinny you have to dance around in the shower to get wet.”

“If you had a dime on your head, we would call you a nail.”

“All you need is a broom head and we could sweep the floor.”

Nicknames, it seems, are not only permanent, but also really annoying. Don’t think you can shake them off just by telling people to “stop calling me that!” I know; I’ve tried. It has not worked for a moment.

Maybe I should just gain 30 pounds and be done with it all?

– Morgan James

No. 2

My name is Justin and I am 17 years old. I am employed in the landscaping industry, which is rough, hot and involves long hours. When I got the job and went out to my first job site, I thought the crew was going to be old, crabby and disinterested in me and our work. I was wrong about all of that.

These guys were fun and tried to do everything they could to have fun. I happened to be the second Justin to be hired, which meant that there were two of us on the site. Since calling out “Justin” would get us to both turn our heads, they gave me the nickname “No. 2.”

This nickname then turned into “Poopy” and “Duke” because of the bathroom nature of “No. 2.” So now every day I go to work, I’m always being called all kinds of funny nicknames, with “Poopy” being the most popular.

– Justin Morken

Pigpen and Chia Pet

Working in a customer service call center gives you many opportunities to know your co-workers. You take the good with the bad while you wait for the next customer call to come in.

Working in close quarters with co-workers has its disadvantages, especially when one of your neighboring coworkers doesn’t know how to apply deodorant. Her nickname instantly became “Pigpen” to me and my best friend, Becky, who also sat close to us both.

But the best co-worker nickname we came up with was for a gal with the puffiest hairdo you’ve ever seen. Containing our laughter was difficult enough when she walked by, but that became almost impossible when we came up with the label “Chia.” Her hair was so out of control she reminded us of the Brillo-haired Christmas gift called the Chia Pet. I’m sorry to say that we always called her that, and even sent texts back and forth between us (when she was sitting right near us), singing “Chi-chi-chi-Chia.” I know, it wasn’t very nice, but it sure broke us — and a dull day — up every time!

– Dawne Prochilo

- By Jenny Peters

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So as the merger talks linger on, we were curious to find out what the employees think about each company.  What are their concerns?

As the discussion heats up in the public arena on the impending takeover of NBC Universal from its existing majority owner, General Electric, Comcast employees are sounding off on Glassdoor about what it’s like to work for the cable giant, and NBC Universal employees are chiming in about what’s great about their jobs and areas that need improvement.

When it comes to CEO approval rating, Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, receives 70% approval, two percentage points higher than General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (68% approval) and eight percentage points more than NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker (62% approval). Glassdoor’s CEO approval rating is based on employee feedback on how the CEO is leading the company.

Interestingly, employees of both Comcast and NBC Universal give their employers the same company satisfaction rating (3.2), which means that most employees think the company is ‘OK’. But what happens when we dig down beyond the ratings to find out what it’s really like to work for Comcast? Here Comcast employees dish on what to expect working for the nation’s largest provider of cable services. First we start with the areas that may need some improvement:

“It’s such a big company that the left arm does not know what the right arm is doing. No matter what project you are working on, someone else somewhere in Comcast is working on a similar task, so you always end up competing internally against another group.” – Comcast Software Engineer (Philadelphia, PA)

“A good job for those who will sell their soul for money. Their success is because they have great products, not how they run the business.” – Comcast Business Account Executive (Fife, WA)

“Full of people who are in managerial roles that they spend time calling endless meetings trying to justify their role. They wouldn’t recognize innovation if it hit them in the face.” – Comcast Anonymous (Washington D.C.)

With a 3.2 company rating and a proven business record, there are many things that seem to be working well. In fact, if you look deeper into the company ratings for Comcast, employees’ show they are most satisfied with work/life balance (3.6) and compensation and benefits (3.5). Here’s why:

“Benefits are great, reviews are regular and I receive lots of feedback from managers. CA&R has great mentors you would be lucky to work for.” – Comcast Senior Accountant (Philadelphia, PA)

“I really do feel that the supervisors I have been privileged to work under really care about me and want me to do well and that is very important for me as an employee.” – Comcast Business Services Support (Houston, TX)

“I have [sic] been with this company for 3 years and I have to say that this is the next best thing to a union job at the big three.” – Comcast Direct Sales Representative (Detroit, MI)

And if Comcast is looking to learn what NBC Universal employees think is going well or needs work, they can turn to Glassdoor for some first-hand insights:

Pros:

“Great place to learn media technology and to get hands on experience.” – NBC Universal employee (Miami, FL)

“Great opportunity to develop in the media industry. Learn sales techniques in the distribution of informational content such as news and entertainment.” – NBC Universal Information Management Leadership Program (New York, NY)

“Very cooperative and innovative staff. It is fun to collaborate with everyone and [sic] work together. Latest in terms of technology.” – NBC Universal Technical Operations (location n/a)

Cons:

“Giant conglomerate couldn’t care less about the individual people working there. You are just an anonymous cog in the huge machine.” – NBC Universal IT Director (Universal City, CA)

“It’s so large yet somehow seems to never have enough money in their budget to fully staff positions that your department needs to have manned in order to accomplish the goals you are tasked to do.” – NBC Universal Interactive Project Manager (New York, NY)

“Nobody takes you seriously if you do not share the same opinions as everyone else.” – NBC Universal Producer (location n/a)

Comcast’s deal to buy Universal is expected to close at the end of the year.

If you are interested in reading more reviews or getting salary insights and interview reviews, click on any of the following company names for more: Comcast, NBC Universal, and General Electric.

What do you think about the Comcast / NBC Universal deal?

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Starting in the next few years and really manifesting itself from 2020 to 2030 will be a global war for talent. Friedman projects that due to mortality rates and retiring boomers the world over, countries will be forced to entice and compete for skilled and unskilled talent to keep their economies moving in the right direction.

Why should this be of interest to us readers at Glassdoor? Well, whether you are currently working, looking for work or considering strategic paths for your company’s short and long term future, it is vital to know that talent plays an important role on the global stage for the next 90 years. Gives us pause to consider what role we or our companies will play on the global stage. And 2020 is coming up faster than we’d like to think.

Read the book if you want a unique view on the future. I can’t say that all will occur the way Friedman prescribes, but he certainly has an interesting set of arguments to support his views.

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Here are some questions to consider when crafting your auto-response that will keep your contacts informed and give you the chance to get away:

• When will you be gone and when do you get back? Be clear in your message and let people know the date(s) that you will be out and when you return.
• Do you have an alternate contact while you are out? Do you want your cell phone to ring incessantly while you’re out of pocket or have emails just go unanswered? (Or are you one of those who never actually shuts down? If not for yourself, try to do this so you don’t bother your friends and family.) Determine if another colleague could assist in handling inquiries while you are out and make sure they are ok with you listing their phone and/or email address in your out-of-office reply.
• If there is an emergency, is there some way to reach you? Let’s face it; it’s not easy for everyone to step away, especially as you become more senior in your career. Consider letting someone know the details of your whereabouts so you can be reached in a true emergency – or consider including a note that reads: “For emergencies only, contact me at 555-1234.” This way emailers can use their own judgment. But, if you are afraid that this emergency number will be abused, use your head and do some early planning of your own and let your key contacts know ahead of time that you will be away from the office.

And for the sake of your career, here are a couple important pieces of advice:

• While you may have buddies at work, remember that the out-of-office message is part of your professional brand – as well as your company’s.  Don’t leave an out-of-office email message that reads, “Off to Vegas for heavy drinking and strip clubs.” Clients, prospects, recruiters, your boss and other senior executives can all be on the receiving end of the auto-response emails. A poor choice of words in your auto-response may leave you feeling that you might be better off hiding out there for longer than you intended.
• Don’t forget that there’s more than one way for people to know what you are up to while you are gone.  You know those followers and friends you’ve been racking up – how many are clients, coworkers, or vendors are watching what you do?   Remember, things that happen on your vacation can stay on the internet…for a long, long, long time.  Do you really need to upload to Facebook the picture of you and your friends cutting loose? Does your status update on Twitter really need to made at this time? And even if you do manage to take some photo or update down later, think about the hundreds — or thousands— of people who may have caught on to your ‘fun’ before you had a chance to think about the consequences of what it could mean for your job and career. Remember this is your vacation, try and unplug a little.

Lastly, just for kicks and giggles, here a few humorous out-of-office reply’s from Zach Whittaker of ZDNet:

“You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, you wouldn’t have received anything at all.”

“Hi, I’m thinking about your interesting e-mail. Stay right by your computer until you receive my response.”

“I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation on the 18th. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.”

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Glassdoor released the findings from its holiday workplace survey today which highlights how those employed, affected by layoffs or other cost-cutting measures, and unemployed plan to tackle gifts, parties, travel and all that the season brings with it. As part of the Glassdoor survey of more than 2,250 people, we wanted to find out: What do people plan to cut back on this season compared to a typical holiday season? Bottom line:  people are reducing gift budgets and plans to attend holiday parties and travel, even more so among employees who work for companies that have initiated or communicated layoffs in the past six months, which accounts for 27% of employed adults (1). Survey highlights include:

• Gift Budgeting: More than half (52%) of those whose company has laid off or communicated layoffs in the past six months plan to cut back on budgets for gift purchases, compared to 40% of all employed adults.
• Gift Exchanges: Gift exchanges will either be less common or less pricey: 28% of employed adults plan to cut back on gift exchanges with co-workers; whereas, 38% of those whose company has communicated layoffs in the past 6 months plan to do the same.
• Gift Expectations: 50% of unemployed are not expecting gifts from others compared to 36% of those employed. Interestingly, more women (42%) report they are reducing their expectations for receiving gifts this season than their male counterparts (30%).
• Company Parties: Fewer people will be attending company-sponsored holiday parties: One in five (19%) employees say they will cut back on attending company-sponsored holiday parties; the rate is highest among employees whose company has initiated/communicated layoffs in the past six months (25%)
• Holiday Functions: And, holiday functions or events hosted by co-workers or colleagues are expected to be down; 15% of employed adults plan to cut back.

In addition, the survey points out how people are planning to cut back on travel and vacation plans. One in four plan to cut back on travel for getaways (27%) and travel to visit family and friends (26%). The reduction is highest among those currently unemployed but looking and employees who have survived layoffs — Among the unemployed, 36% report plans that they will travel less and 34% report they are cutting back on travel to visit family and friends.

What group do you fall in? Are you planning to make changes this season from what you have typically done?

(1) Harris Interactive^® fielded the survey on behalf of Glassdoor.com from September 17 to 21, 2009 via its QuickQuery^SM online omnibus service, interviewing a nationwide sample of 2,257 U.S. adults aged 18 years and older, of whom 1,320 employed full/part time and/or are self employed. Data were weighted using propensity score weighting to be representative of the total U.S. adult population on the basis of region, age within gender, education, household income, race/ethnicity, and propensity to be online. No estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated

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“Wow, what a hard worker – comes into the office even when they’ve got a terrible cold.”

(or)

“Why are they here? They are going to give the rest of us their flu. Great! I know I’ll get sick this weekend.”

The government recommends that anyone exhibiting the physical symptoms associated with cold or flu stay home. As fall turns to winter,  consider these reasons to stay home or encourage your co-workers or employees to stay home when sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching and complaints of being up all night strike:

• Work/life balance takes a toll. Most people in the working world appreciate a company that offers a good work/life balance. However, if the company culture silently supports employees coming in when feeling under the weather, their appreciation for a good job combined with a solid personal life is likely to be impacted. In turn, an employee’s overall satisfaction at the company could go down and even contribute to a shorter tenure with that employer.
• Office productivity goes down when employees are sick. Rest really can do wonders. If you go into the office with severe symptoms, you are likely contagious, and you can cause the rest of your office mates to get sick too. Depending on the size of your office, a cold and flu can often take days if not weeks to cycle  through. Instead of suffering through the work-day, compare  the impact to your environment and office mates to coming in and  getting a job done and out the door. Not to mention that we are coming into job review season – do you really want your boss to look at your latest work effort and wonder why it didn’t turn out quite as good as expected?
• Healthy office competition takes a hit. Encouraging a healthy competition that supports innovation and quality work is one thing, but fostering a workplace that causes co-workers or employees to feel like they really should come in when they are sick as a dog in order to be looked upon as a good worker among peers is another.

We understand that some people like to stockpile their allotted number of sick days so that they can use them for a personal day or perhaps cash them out at the end of the year. But if you are still thinking that you are not really that sick, refer to WebMD’s list of questions to consider before jumping in your car and heading to the office:

• Are you contagious?
• Will resting at home help your body to overcome the illness?
• Are you taking medications that could impair your ability to think, work, operate machinery, or drive?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, stay home – this is why the sick day was invented. Giving yourself time to relax can help you get back in the saddle a lot sooner than if you are to push yourself.

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Based on the company and interview reviews on Glassdoor, we did some digging around to give you a better picture of what it’s really like to be a recruiter today.

What recruiters don’t like about their jobs: In a nutshell, being a recruiter requires long hours, sometimes a low commission based salary, and a continual uphill climb given a tough job market.

Long hours, commission brackets are impossible to reach, once you reach then you still aren’t making that much money. – Aerotek Recruiter

Overall, the staffing industry isn’t a prime place to be. Go in wanting to learn about the job market and what you need to succeed, and get out while you can. – Aerotek Recruiter

You will not have a personal life. – Spherion Recruiter

There isn’t much of a work-life balance, my average week as about 60 hours, and that was nothing compared to some of my colleagues. – Robert Half Recruiting Manager

In a down economy it’s about numbers vs. the past or the quality of the individual. – Kforce Account Manager/Recruiter

What recruiters do like about their jobs: On the plus side, recruiters enjoy getting to see firsthand the fruits of their labor, and some report that the more elbow grease you put into it the more you will get out of your career in recruiting.

You get to see the result of your hard work. There is nothing better than seeing a person get a position they really wanted and having them thank you for it. – Aerotek Recruiter

This job is exactly what you make of it. They reward hard work and integrity with chances to increase your load and advance. – Spherion Recruiter

Excellent opportunity to make money when the economy is doing well. The ability to earn commissions as a sales person there are excellent. – Robert Half Recruiting Manager

You are paid for your performance and income potential is unlimited. –  Robert Half Recruiting Manager

Provides an insight into large corporations hiring practices or the lack there of. You can earn a decent entry level paycheck with a bachelors degree in social science or even liberal arts. – Volt Information Technical Recruiter

And last, but not least, what is it like to get a job as a recruiter or at a staffing agency in this market? What do recruiters get asked in an interview?

What does diversity mean to you? – TEKsystems Technical Recruiter

There is a man on the ground with a broken window and a rock in the same room. What happened? – Microsoft Recruiter

Tell me about a former colleague you didn’t get along with. – Apple Recruiter

What would you do if you got a job at a company and you hated it? – AeroTek Recruiter

Remember that this snapshot is just the tip of the iceberg for the recruiter and staffing agencies reviews on Glassdoor. If you have questions on how to determine if a recruiting job at a specific company is right for you, contact Glassdoor’s Clearview Collection, a panel of career experts with expertise in recruiting, HR and other workplace issues, with your questions (askclearview@glassdoor.com). Or, if you are looking to work with a recruiter and staffing agency, take some advice from Glassdoor career expert Jeff Hunter who offers tips on how to evaluate a job and career recruiter.

Job Recruiters Dish On What They Like About Their Careers, What They Don’t, And What They Get Asked In An Interview is a post from: Glassdoor Blog

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