Robert Walters Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Robert Walters full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good career opportunities and advancement

Cons – None at the moment that I can think of

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Robert Walters full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good incentive programs, agressive culture, diversified and really international

Cons – Too much gorssip in the office. Management team are too young.

Advice to Senior Management – Be good to the 2 tier management team

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Robert Walters full-time for more than a year

Pros – Beautiful office. Good location. Colleagues are all very friendly. Managers and directors are open-minded. It has a great supporting team, and the company's database and office infrastructures It's a good place for fresh recruiters and also for experienced recruiters who are seeking for a stable and profitable career path. It's reputation helps a lot for you to develop clients and find quality candidates in Singapore

Cons – Usually no offical farewell parties if an employee leaves the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Management shall gain more local experiences and be more adaptable to the Asia markets.

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

Former Employee – worked at Robert Walters full-time for more than a year

Pros – Youthful office, very good social life with colleagues, especially as most are expats.
Great candidate/client management system
Supportive management
Feels like a real company in terms of professionalism and benefits compared to some other ones I have worked for.
If you bill well and consistently you have nothing to worry about and it can be quite enjoyable with good career development

Cons – Discretionary team bonus - not transparent on what you will earn and also reliant on team members to perform well and management not being greedy ( can be an issue when a number are having babies that they need to support!)
Broken promises (a running theme in recruitment)
Some office politics, you need to have read Sun Tzu to get on top!

Advice to Senior Management – If office isn't performing stop going out on Friday "management lunches" which are then expensed and stick with your teams until you are all performing again!!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Robert Walters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Professional approach. Sales driven office without being overly bullish with clients.

Cons – Can be too reliant on brand reputation and neglect the hunt for new business at times.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue getting the international and local blend right.

Current Employee – been working at Robert Walters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There is no any pros

Cons – An unethical recruiter from Malaysia because of too money minded, he persued people to join a position which has very high risk of layoff possibility. He gave a lot of fake information to his candidate and that candidate was terminated after working for 2 months and he just pushed his responsibility and no any intention to help the candidate to find a job.

Advice to Senior Management – Please get a better quality recruiters for your company, this is very important to maintain your company brand name.

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

Former Employee – worked at Robert Walters full-time

Pros – International career opportunities, great database infrastructure

Cons – Staff gets jibbed on commissions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Robert Walters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great systems, hardworking environment, respected company

Cons – Discretionary bonuses rip you off, location management dependent, recruitment systems less successful in tough economic times, not a place for very high billers

Advice to Senior Management – Greater generosity on bonuses, gtreater flexability for local market conditions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Robert Walters full-time for more than a year

Pros – A well established company with international opportunities

Cons – In recent years, the Singapore office has seen massive turnover at all levels and current management is poor and unpopular. The nature of the company means its a place for people to start their recruitment careers, and then move on. This is principally because its low paid both in terms of salary package and commission. The comment below that its an excellent place to work is clearly by a Manager/Director who is in denial. Morale is the worst I've ever experienced, as is turnover. There are better places you can start your recruiting career.

Advice to Senior Management – As with the previous comment, no advice is given because nothing will change. This is an office in terminal decline.

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

Current Employee – been working at Robert Walters full-time for more than a year

Pros – The IT systems are great and run quickly. The database is easy to use and the training team is very adept at teaching you how to use it properly and get the most of it. In Singapore, it also helps that the APAC IT Systems are located in the same office and are very approachable if you have any trouble.

Cons – I really cannot comment if the same is true of other Robert Walters offices, but the Singapore office is the personal fiefdom of a select few directors and associate directors who have used it to enrich themselves and protect their own jobs at the expense of everybody else. In just one year, Robert Walters Singapore lost every single one of their managers (except for one horrendous woman who is friends with the Associate Director) and two of their senior directors. Consultants make no money from their placements and their is no transparency on how you could be rewarded for your efforts. The Directors simply take all the profit from the company and force everybody underneath out with increasingly unrealistic and impossible KPIs. They exist solely to berate you for not hitting your unreachable targets and following your notes on the database so that they can leap on the slightest mistake and justify their existence. One Associate Director openly uses her time at the office to go to pilates and massage sessions and uses up most of the secretaries time to manage her personal life. Senior management take no responsibility for their bad decisions and instead fire consultants and managers en masse and slave drive everybody into working longer hours. The majority of your time at RW Singapore will be spent staying in the office till midnight every night just to hit certain targets and KPIs that don't contribute to anything actually productive. It also takes about a week to get a CV formatted from your secretaries because they are too busy arranging senior management's social life - a joke in competitive fast-paced industry.

Advice to Senior Management – I have no advice for the senior management of RW Singapore. You are all entrenched with each other for so long that you will not allow any advice to penetrate your corrupt minds. You will continue to run your empire for as long as possible at the expense of anybody unfortunate enough to work for you.

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