Planet Healthcare Reviews

Pros

Great office atmosphere. I actually look forward to coming to work.

Cons

None. I have no complaints.

Pros

As a Recruiter you will be expected to do pretty much every job function: Sourcing, Screening, Submitting, Placing, and maintaining the relationship beyond first placement, even some interaction with the clients when Sales/Account Management fails to get you the feedback you and your candidate need. This will inevitably lead to you knowing how to do a lot of things and build a diverse skill set for your next job.... Occasionally you'll work with a cool candidate that makes the job not so bad. Other coworkers in other Planet sectors are cool/fun to work alongside. Good water cooler, ice cold. That's about it though.

Cons

Poor leadership/management from the top down. Typical Staffing heads; when somethings not working make more calls, you're doing something wrong, etc. When things are working and you're seeing success, it's why aren't you seeing more success. Nothing is ever good enough despite you busting your hump. When you have a "bad" month, every reason you provide them as to why it was the way it was is seen as an excuse, and... they could really careless what your feedback is. Sales/Account Managers make more money in commissions despite doing much less work. It's all MSP/VMS job orders that you work on, so the positions will be there regardless of who is holding the Sales/AM positions, and they're not generating any new business or "selling" candidates to clients - so this doesn't make any sense. Sometimes they don't even hold up what little responsibilities they do have and you'll have to troubleshoot whatever the issue is through the candidate and their manager or by reaching out to the client yourself. Takes a good 2 years of hard work to actually build up a pipeline to where you're going to see success and a sustainable living wage in today's climate. Little to no training when you start, so get prepared to figure out a lot of things out on your own. The Sales/AM teams aren't as well versed in healthcare knowledge and you will have to explain things to them sometimes, which again makes no sense because they're making more and should know what the positions actually are and what your candidate does. You will feel overworked and will have to field calls/texts for candidates after hours if you want to see success, just leads to inevitable burnout. False promises. Numerous times incentive programs were ran where bonuses/rewards weren't paid out. There's always been a plan to go national, but no real concrete plan or correct steps taken to get there. Like I said previously, the sales team isn't selling and getting into new hospitals, which makes it hard to grow to a national scale. No new recruiters are hired for new target areas, just poor overall planning and implementation. I could keep going but feel this is enough to paint a solid picture of what it's like to work at Planet Healthcare. In a nutshell: Toxic, look elsewhere and don't waste your time.

Advice to Management

Incentivize or increase the commissions for Recruiters to at least what Sales/AM's make, it will make them feel more valued and make the climate more fair since they're doing most of the work anyways. Get leaders in place who actually understand healthcare industry and possess knowledge. Get out of the classic staffing mindset, healthcare industry is different than others and more calls isn't the answer, because... nurses hate being called and if you want to ensure that you never work with someone, it's by calling them during the day when they're sleeping because they work nights, it shouldn't be a hard concept to understand. Text, text, text.

Pros

Drinking alcohol in the office. PlanetDay they take everyone out and pay for food and alcohol.

Cons

Consistent Micromanaging. Always negative. Exceeded my goals every quarter and was scolded for not making enough phone calls. They monitor your email and social media. Positive Reviews were posted multiple times by the same internal Employee.

Advice to Management

Treat your employees like adults. Give positive feedback and credit when it due. Toxic leadership and constant negativity is why you are losing all your employees.

Pros

Competitive team with a drive to win. Every day feels like we accomplished something and yet there is never enough time in the day to do everything that you set out to do. Work here is never boring!

Cons

Highly competitive market. The Healthcare industry has shorter contract assignment durations, so turnover of contractors is high, unless you can extend them at a facility or find them another option nearby.

Advice to Management

Keep growing the company internally and finding opportunities with longer contract durations!

Pros

TONS of room to grow and move up in the company, this isn't your "typical" agency where recruiters are thrown in to either drown or swim. Planet Healthcare really cares about the recruiters they hire. They train/support their staff to really have a successful, long career here. It's a competitive but fun work environment - stuff gets done but it has a family feel which is nice to come to five days a week. I love the... thought that I have the opportunity to help grow a business from the early stages - it's exciting and sure to be rewarding!

Cons

Still a small company, so there have been a fair share of growing pains. A lot of competition out there with companies that have been doing this longer/have bigger names

Advice to Management

Keep promoting from within and continue the entrepreneurial spirit!

Pros

- Strong leadership - Commission Structure - Opportunity for growth

Cons

With any growing company, we continue to make improvements both internally and externally.

Advice to Management

Continue listening to internal and external employees.

Pros

- Strong opportunity for growth - Exceptional leadership team who are always open to new ideas - You get out what you put in - control your own success both professionally and financially - Fun, and competitive working environment

Cons

- With rapid growth, some processes were not built to sustain that. This has caused some headaches, but are always improving, and it comes with any growing company.

Advice to Management

Continue to keep pushing an entrepreneurial mindset. With healthcare staffing being an ever-changing industry, it is vital to growth. Overall, keep up the great work!

Pros

Great compensation and commission schedule. Leadership is open to new and creative ideas for both business development and internal processes. Entrepreneurial spirited company.

Cons

Newer company in the market place means steep competition in some larger metros.

Advice to Management

Continue to maintain the entrepreneur spirit and listen to internal and external employees when something isn't working.