Research - Anonymous employee Marlin Hawk Employee Review

4.0
Mar 7, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Marlin Hawk is an incredibly place to scale your career as an executive recruiter. It is a flat organization, so you are visibile from the most junior roles to the top. Marlin Hawk is disrupting an otherwise antiquated industry, and the roles we recruiter for are truly transformational. The Partners at Marlin Hawk provide a "Yes First" approach to anything you want to do for the firm or your career. Rather than setting boundaries and limitations, they look for ways in which you can develop how & where YOU want to develop. I don't think there is a better firm in the space for launching a career in search!

Cons

While Marlin Haw allows for tons of visibility and limitless opportunities, it lacks an infrastructure for proper professional development. Because there is no real formal training program, you truly have to be entrepreneurial in your own development. That certainly works for some--especially experience recruiters--but it can be difficult for those who have little experience in the industry. Also, your career can become very BD focused as you grow in the company. Sometimes Marlin Hawk cares more about quantity of candidates rather than quality of candidates, and it frustrates clients. Marlin Hawk also deliver searches in a quick time frame. If there is no institutional knowledge of the role for which we are recruiting, we can get into trouble with the client. Sometimes delivering difficult searches in a month, or 6-8 weeks will allow the process to spiral, and quality suffers for both the team and the client.

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Marlin Hawk Response
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Thank you for your review. It's really helpful feedback. We are hearing consistent messaging around certain topics and striving to ensure we are a place where a multitude of different talents can thrive and are encouraged to do so. We are looking to improve a great deal of internal processes here which will mean timescales, and the ability for them to undermine the quality of our service, is diminished. Along with client feedback that we are collecting, all of this should help us shape our strategies in the future.

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Cons

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