Toxic Culture - Senior Recruitment Consultant Hays Employee Review

1.0
6 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good training if you are new to recruitment.

Cons

The leaders in this company don’t trust their employees to get on with their work and treat them like children. There were a lot of meetings that added no value other than to check up on what team members were doing. When the WFH mandate went out, I was expected to use my personal laptop and phone for work for over a year. Success doesn’t come down to hard work, it often is luck of the draw depending on what desk you are put on. Different teams have different commission structures for no apparent reason. Salary and compensation was not transparent. Toxic work culture overall.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

Not as many benefits as other staffing companies

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