KellyMitchell Group Employee Reviews about "people"

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There are no cons to working at KellyMitchell. Great company, great team!

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No Cons for the review of KellyMitchell.

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I did nit have any challenges with KellyMitchell Group which is rare in the consulting industry. They were well organized every step of the way and are the best company I have worked for thus far.

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The industry can be tough but still rewarding. Not every day is going to be perfect, but the highs outweigh the lows. There are uncontrollable factors, which can be tough.

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Offers little to no professional development. Company doesn't care if people quit because they are unhappy, huge turnover rates. People are promoted because they are well liked, not because they have the skills necessary to manage. Zero people management abilities has led to blame of failure on the recruiters rather than the manager in charge of them. Hard company to work for and be happy at the end of the day. No job stability.

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Ups and downs of staffing.

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This is hard for all staffing companies, but the benefits for families are a little expensive. You can easily makes that up though by producing!

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Management lies to you about income potential and opportunity from the very beginning. They might not necessarily be intentionally lying about everything, a lot of what they tell someone about potential is made up or based off imagination. There is no process for projecting or placing demands on any sales position. They do not evaluate market potential based of facts or hard numbers. There is no real market study, for instance screening the companies in a given area for if they even do this type of work and if they aren't already penetrated by KellyMitchell, or have fired KM in the past. On that note you are told and told to tell others that the company has never lost a client: it's a huge lie! They will hire you just to see what they can get out of you even if there is little market potential because they simply don't know or care. It is irresponsible and unprofessional, that is this company as a whole. They don't care about turnover because if people leave they get to keep more share of the profit and not pay the commission on both the recruiter and client development side- about 20%. You are told to lie to potential and current clients about the number of staff working on their needs amplified exponentially; saying there are 50 recruiters when they're are only 8-10 on staff, 2/3 of which are on other accounts. RFPs are filled out by loosely projecting potential consultants in the database and then doubling the numbers. 0 direction, no training, no process for anything. Permanent documents needed to reference for subbing consultants are missig, but you better not let that hinder you! Somehow there is still micromanagement in there, it seems impossible with the previous description, but it isn't. I got meetings with almost every potential customer within my area, only to have my meetings hijacked by the blabbering manager who wouldn't let me get a word in and threw up KellyMitchell all over the potential customer/ decision maker. We would leave and they would never talk to me again because of zero connection made. Any good sales person knows better than to conduct a meeting like this. People want you to get to know them and not desperately splurge company facts at them. Then I would be blamed for not making things happen, when I wasn't trusted to run the meeting in the first place after attaining it on my own. The manager wasn't even in the same state as me, and when in town would blow me off when I scheduled a meeting with her ahead of time to get to know her better; it's hard to earn trust and open communication when your manager doesn't know you at all and doesn't act as if she wants to. I quickly learned open communication is is not welcomed and is a trap. If you don't blow smoke or suck up with power players you are fired out of nowhere. I watched almost the entire sales staff quit or get fired with no warning in the 6 months I was there. Upper management has no idea what they're doing or what's going on in the company. They are a lawyer and engineer who were on a temp hiring team during a strike and decided to open and it recruiting firm- have no expertise so are quick to think this is easy and if their number projections aren't realistic then sales people are lazy, it's ridiculous. They tell you to earn clients by promising we can cover jobs other firms can't, but they don't realize promising Java developers for $75,000/ year isn't possible because there simply aren't any in St. Louis who aren't working already and making 6-figures plus...just make it happen or you're fired 'because you don't want to work hard'. The people who stay are told, and reassure themselves by thinking they are the few who are willing to work hard so they can continue on without guilt, but really it's about how much you are liked based off how much you suck up and how fake you are. If you have ideas don't share them because you will hurt someone's ego and get fired, if you are smart you won't last. if your a sorority bully you'll fit in great! Don't waste your time, you will only learn how to play games or leave feeling completely insecure at your next job because this place is a game that will mess with your head no matter how smart you are and how hard you try. In fact, the smartest people here don't last long except for the few who have tenure who keep their head down and make their own rules...you will know them when you see them, they will never leave or be fired because the company wouldn't know what to do without them, and they don't want to have anything to do with helping someone new. Like I said, just don't waste your time it's a total mess. Oh and benefits are laughable- obamacare is amazing compared to this coverage and price.

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Hiring process took an extremely long time and after finally receiving an offer I was told within four days that the position was being taken in a different direction.

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A lot of paperwork! But it's to be expected.