Hays plc Reviews

I worked at Hays plc full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Decent pay, good people. Had a great time and would do it again if I had to.

Cons – None that are worthy of mentioning

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Hays plc

Pros – , opportunities for progression if you are willing to work long hours and fit with company culture

Cons – Long hours, presenteeism culture , can be a "face fits" atmosphere

I worked at Hays plc full-time for less than a year

Pros – Okay salary for a new graduate. Good benefits.

Cons – Standard practices were not followed - workers were sent into hospitals uncompliant, which meant that they did not provide the correct documentation to work (g passport, proof of address, references from past jobs). In a way, this equates to potentially a dangerous person having access to patient records. The management was poor -- a lot of the training was left down to an associate consultant. This resulted in mixed messages being thrown around about how to do a certain task.

Advice to Senior Management – Stick to the rules in order to prevent the law being broken and do not allow novices to train new starters.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Hays plc full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good initial training
Real possibility to make a lot of money
Culture can be fun - but very male-oriented

Cons – Trapped in a monthly cycle
Never make as much as they promise you
Management shuffles are constantly occurring
Plateau after 6 months, very little development after that.
Huge Attrition rate of staff (circa 60% a year in some teams)

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the employees more
Give a new strategy a little time before changing again.
Implement a real quarter by quarter career development plan

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Hays plc full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Worked with some great people when I first joined who realized things were going downhill and left.

Cons – Currently managed by some monkeys who dont have a clue on what theyr doing. Dumping all the costs into CAPEX from OPEX is not reducing the overheads. A bunch of con artists currently running the company into the ground and milking it for everything its worth.

Advice to Senior Management – Get somebody to manage IT who actually have some technical knowledge.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Hays plc full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good training, good employee incentive schemes that reward strong performance and a relatively mature manner in dealing with people. If you generate sales for the company, you will be looked after well. They also have global reach which has its advantages in pitching for major client wins.

Cons – The foundation of the company is to provide strong recruitment services. To that end, they deliver well but the greed of the Board and Senior Management prevents hiring expertise and simply forces them to hire inexperienced low-cost consultants to service the lowest end of the market.

Senior management have invested over £50m on a database that simply does not work in order to provide global Management Information. However, very few people actually use the system for anything other than producing an invoice, so the information senior management see, is completely flawed. This was a great company, that is now being run by idiots. Chief of which is a CEO who has been fired from his last 2 jobs and has never worked a day as a recruitment consultant.

Advice to Senior Management – Get out and listen to the people on the shop floor. Stop wasting enormous amounts of money on technology that is already light-years behind the competition. Instead, invest the savings in hiring better Consultants who can mentor, develop and retain the best consultants in the market and transform the reputation of the business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Hays plc full-time for less than a year

Pros – The only recruitment company to take on graduates with no recruitment experience.

Cons – Starting salary on graduate scheme of £15,000 sounds ok when you have just finished uni and are promised fast progression but divide that up by the unofficial 50+ hours per week and it is well below minimum wage.

Advice to Senior Management – More honesty about the working hours from the start.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Hays plc

Pros – good team with good market coverage

Cons – low commision and not real creative control

I worked at Hays plc

Pros – Meritocracy
Fun
International Opportunities
Comission
Recognition for success
There's not many more pro's, was quite a difficult place to work especially with the high staff attrition.

Cons – Beurocratic
Lack of Respect
Graduate business model

Advice to Senior Management – Respect staff more

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Hays plc

Pros – Everyone knows Hays and they are an established player in recruitment

Cons – Hays is stuck in the past with its pricing and customer and candidate development

Advice to Senior Management – The management don't know how to do the job and are changing and moving the goalposts all the time, hence high staff turnover

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend