Don't Work For This Toxic Company - Anonymous employee SearchAsia Employee Review

1.0
Mar 20, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

-Learn to manage emotions. -Learn the basics of sales. -A few colleagues-mentors can be caring, at the beginning. -Gain lots of connections

Cons

- No Work-Life Balance. > Expect to work more than 10-hours each day. CEO expects you to stay beyond 8pm. If you leave around 6:30pm, some of the colleagues will comment on your early departure from work. > Values are wrong in this company. You are expected to forego everything and submit to the CEO. > This company is affiliated to Recruit Express, owned by the same CEO. Cross-reference with that company and make your own judgement. - Tell-Show-Do Principle > Incompatible to the Generation-Y and the millennial generation. > Company has a strict policy of "I tell you how to do it, i show it to you, you do it. Don't ask why.” This company practice is backward and very unprofessional. It's a modern form of slavery, having to do things that even your moral values disagrees with. > Micro-managing is thus an adverse consequence of this outdated practice. - Shady contract terms. > During interview, we were informed, "One month close one case for your sales is enough." But nope. > Different interviewees gets told different things. It's not really ‘certified proper training’ that is being provided. But not really. > If you terminate the employment and decided to leave, expect to pay one month of salary all in the name of "training costs." However, there is no certification to proof that you have been trained. Even if there was a company workshop, it's self-facilitated and sometimes the its 'CEO-Trained.' So if you want to proof your skillset to the future companies, and they ask for certification, you can only say 'CEO-Trained.' - High-Stress Environment leading to High Attrition Rate. > Sales job. So expect to be measured ONLY by your sales output and nothing else. They don’t care about the effort you put in. > Due to the distorted company culture, it has led to a very stressful working climate. Consequently, attrition rate is VERY HIGH. The management fails to admit the high attrition rate due to their inability to do basic statistics and calculations. - Company Rating. > To any fresh graduates out there, if you want to join a recruitment/headhunting firm, join the international companies which have proper training and work-plan in place for you. > The rating of this company should be negative.

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SearchAsia Response
8y
Thank you for taking the time to give us a detailed feedback. We hope that the lessons learnt here will enable you to do better in your future career. If you would like to share more about your experiences with us, please contact us by emailing feedback@searchasia.com.sg so that we can set up an appropriate time to talk. All the best!

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Hi, We would like to clarify on the point made that our Associate Consultants are performing "free labor" as suggested in the review. This is a frivolous claim because firstly, our Associate Consultants are paid on per hour basis and the company makes full Employer’s CPF contributions according to the prevailing CPF Act and all other applicable and mandatory statutory contributions. Secondly, it is also the company's practice to brief all potential candidates on the responsibilities of the Associate Consultant during the interview prior to starting work. Thirdly, a Mentor (usually a Senior Consultant in the company) is then assigned to each Associate Consultant to teach them the ropes of the business. We acknowledge the fact that different individuals will have different learning capacities and we endeavour to do our best to equip our consultants with soft skills necessary to manoeuvre on the job. If you would like to share more about your experiences with us, please contact me by emailing feedback@searchasia.com.sg so that we can set up an appropriate time to talk. Thank you!
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