Hays Reviews

Pros

A lot great people work here, solid PTO policy, and decent commission %% compared to other places. If management was not so bad, it would be a good company to work for but unfortunately that is not the case. They will cram your week up by assigning you jobs going absolutely no where or other pointless time-wasting tasks. which it make it extremely difficult to hit your numbers.

Cons

Very poor management making horrible decisions. Recruiters are not treated well. A lot of time wasting activities that need to be taken care of. This company absolutely blew my mind recently with their decision making. I don't think any of the Leaders within the organization have actually looked at a single job requisition. They recently brought on a new Account where all of the jobs are prioritized as "Red Hot" by management yet the jobs are the biggest joke you could ever possibly witness as a Recruiter. Management actually wants to build a new team completely dedicated to this account and force their experienced recruiters to spend a large portion of time on it. You will get yelled at by Management if you do not submit daily, very detailed, multiple paragraph, updates to the Account Manager, however, Recruiters are not entitled to any feedback on the candidates submitted. In a time frame of over 2 months, there were close to 200 job requisitions with this particular client, and not one single interview or anything close to it. Not a single placement will ever be made on it as your most experienced recruiters have already pointed out, yet Managers actually want to build a team of multiple people who solely focused on supporting this complete joke of an account as well as force their experienced recruiters to waste a large portion of time on it. It is mind blowing to see high level leaders within such a large organization make such horrible business decisions that will only lose the company money and more employees in the long run. Very long training sessions to experienced recruiters who do not need it. Why is an employee with over 3 years of experience forced to sit through multiple 2+ hour training activities? If the training was actually relevant or helpful, I would understand but it's not. Half of it is spent making fake "role play" phone calls to other recruiters to practice everything they already do on a daily basis, It's just insulting and a waste of valuable time and resources. How can you expect recruiters to get 6 interviews, 8 submittals, and 20 mini profiles per week when in reality they only have about half of the day to actually focus on recruiting.

Pros

- There are many large staffing agencies, and I've worked at one of the largest here in the US before coming to Hays. Hays does things really well. - Get paid commission for every placement. Competitive base pay - Excellent career growth potential. There are clear lines drawn as to how to get promoted, what you get with a promotion, and where you can go from there. Many promotion opportunities. And they're pretty good about letting you move to another segment (from recruiting to sales, from IT to Finance, from staffing to internal L&D team, etc...) - Pretty good benefits, especially compared to mid-sized staffing agencies - Lots of good people. - A good amount of longevity across the US. Yes, it's a staffing agency, so there is some turnover for those who don't try. But when you see people regularly here 3+ years, it speaks well compared to some other agencies. - Not insanely strict on "butts in seats 8-5 no exceptions" - at least management in this region understand that we're people - as long as you put work in, there's a bit of flex.

Cons

- Very metrics-driven. Your manager plays a big role in how important the metrics are, and I'm lucky enough to have a manager that generally lets me work at my pace as long as I get placements. If you want a promotion, you need to hit those metrics though - Lots of busy work, especially with new initiatives rolling out. Lots of clicking through the system, running reports on numbers, etc. This can be seen as a good thing for your career progression though, as it forces you to be a bit more strategic. - Not a great office where I am - some locations have great offices though - Clear promotion path is a double-edged sword. It seems some leaders who were great recruiters are not as strong on the leadership side. - Sometimes unclear messaging on importance of metrics. Overall, they're important, which some people push against.

Pros

The people and culture are great.

Cons

Don't listen to ideas, don't get paid for the work put in

Pros

Excellent training I met lots of great people and it was the first time I’ve worked in an environment with more people my age (20s) which I found to be positive. Management gave me a lot of time to help develop my confidence and knowledge Great incentives, mainly for those who have worked at the company 2+ years (which is fair enough!) it can be hard when you’re working long hours and not seeing the rewards because of the commission rate and no incentives to begin with You can progress very quickly although I believe it’s a bit of pot luck involved as to what desk you are allocated. Saw very hard workers get disheartened because they were working really hard but the desk was completely cold compared to others who took over a really warm desk from someone else. Success is celebrated and there was a good feeling of working for my own goals but as part of a team

Cons

I was never afraid of long hours as I’ve never had a job where I haven’t put the work in and worked considerably extra - but here it really was too much. I worked minimum 7:30-5:30 every day and it was frowned upon to work those hours and not do extra/ take a break at lunch. I get there’s long hours to be expected in recruitment but this was too much and resulted in a high staff turnover because of quick burnout. Starting salary is way too low considering no one will make commission under the commission structure. You won’t make money in your first year because you need to be promoted twice to get to the level where you’re taking commission. It feels tough to earn so little for so many hours and a face paced day. Really high pressure to be expected in most sales/recruitment roles but sometimes the added hours made this feel impossible. Expected to work crazy hours but no consideration given to peoples health and mental well-being which is a mistake. I took annual leave one day for a break and was called 3 times by management about paperwork issues that could have waited until I was back. As mentioned I’m in no way opposed to working hard to develop my desk and business but the hours meant people left as they had no life and were worn out