Randstad US Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Cons

I've been waiting a nice hot minute to type up this review. 1. Here in 2021, Randstad decided to do a big hiring wave where they pretty much hired on about 400+ staffing managers across the nation in just a little less than half a year. Each wave consisted about 150 people and all 150 of those people had to go through the first two weeks of training together through google meet. Unless you went to a big college and LOVED your large classes then this training will SUCK.... TERRIBLY. Training with 150 people as a company is one of the worst training tactics I have seen in my entire life. 2. They DO NOT do a good job of breaking down how commission works. They sort of sell you a dream on how it's practically easy to make 75k year one when even though it's doable, it's not quite likely. 3. What they probably don't tell most people during their interview process is, you're going to work 45-50 hour weeks. ABSOLUTELY not worth it for that base pay. 4. Your territory.... This job doesn't necessarily consist on selling skills, it dang near consists on if you have a good territory or not. One of our VBR tactics on finding good clients in our territories would be to get on indeed and find job openings in your assigned zip code(s). Every time I would go and look, there were ONLY job openings for like one or two units in our branch. Mind you, there's half a dozen units (two people per unit) in this branch so make it make sense that only one or two units have openings... 5. MANUFACTURING AND LOGISTICS IS TERRIBLY MISERABLE. It's just so boring. 6. The cold calls...... I am on my tenth week of training and have probably called WELL over 300 clients at this point and I think I have gotten a half butt 'yes we need staffing' from literally like 4 or 5 clients. 7. There's typically about two people that look over you in the office. When in your interview process, make sure you really like both of them. 8. Being completely off on the weekends is cool but I for sure still feel like there is no work/life balance. They expect you to be pretty hardcore locked in for literally 9-10 hours a day. 9. The training overall is actually quite rigorous and they didn't stress that AT ALL in my interview process which is pretty weird to think about in hindsight. 10. The money potential in the long run is actually pretty great but man it's just a BORING job. 11. There's literally 15 meetings a week. Micromanagement is insane. They say you have a lot of freedom..... which you in a sense do... but those meetings just make almost everyday super dreadful unless you CONSISTENTLY have good wins every other day. Which, barely half of my unit even does. It's extremely embarrassing to have to talk in front of the entire branch and tell everyone how bad of a day you had at work because all the clients in your territory suck. 12. Trust me, I get it, if you've made it to this point then I know some of you are probably reading this and going 'dang maybe he was just really bad at the job' or 'Maybe someone clearly just rubbed him the wrong way'. But neither are the case. I have a history of being good in sales and was really sold a dream to come work here. I was just way too vulnerable to fall for it. The only people that really love this job either had HORRIBLE jobs before working this one and/or have phenomenal territories and just had good luck from the jump. 13. Lastly, the KPI numbers are very unrealistic. Almost every category is hard to fully attain but the order numbers is the specific one that I cannot seem to wrap around my head. To dumb it down, they basically expect you to receive 17+ orders in a three month span. This is why I said territories matter, to put things into perspective I am now in week 10 of training and there are a little over a dozen of us new hires in the branch..... Only 4 of us (I think) have over 3 orders.....here in week 10..... I hate to have to type things out like this but if anything I am just frustrated at the fact that I left my past job for this crap. This job wouldn't be half bad if the base was at least 55k, the commission came in a little faster, and the hours weren't as brutal.