Great team, good opportunity, stunted growth - Talent Acquisition Specialist Softworld Employee Review

4.0
19 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Strong tenure Professional team Growth Opportunity (to an extent)

Cons

Given that they were in a hiring freeze we didn't have roles to fill and therefore weren't able to make any bonuses.

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Softworld Response
1y
Thank you for your feedback, and glad to hear that you thought highly of the team that you worked with. Fully understand your reference on inability to make internal talent acquisition bonuses during your time at Softworld - I'm not exactly sure when you were here, but there absolutely was a hiring freeze during a window of late 2023 and early 2024 - that freeze is now a thing of the past. We're hiring aggressively at junior, mid and senior sales positions all across the country, as well as targeted mid and senior recruiting positions if the right candidates come up. Our growth commitments and plans in the coming months simply won't occur without hiring - for current (and any future) Talent Acquisition professionals, there's plenty of opportunity on tap for the foreseeable future. Thank you again for your sharing your thoughts, and we wish you best of luck on future career travels. If you have anything else you'd like to share, I can be reached at 781-373-8452.

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Pros

Very open and communicative recruiters

Cons

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Softworld Response
2mo
Glad to hear that you've had a positive experience with us, and thank you for representing us well on your assignment. If you have anything more to add, you can always contact your recruiter, or I can be reached at 781-373-8452. Continued success in your Quality Operations career.
1.0
11 Feb 2026
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Pros

I was able to work primarily remote. As an Account Manager, it might not be a bad gig

Cons

Take this with a grain of salt since their director of recruiting was let go, and that was a major issue up until 2024. I'm sure some of the feedback still applies though In short, it was the worst experience I've had in staffing. Constant negative feedback, unrealistic goals, and dealing with recruiting management that had no experience, or likely success, anywhere else As a recruiter, you were probably given 95% system requirements from DoD employers with 60 other vendors (Black Holes). Their idea of "manager contact" would be if they knew the managers first name, and intake calls had those 60 other vendors on them You would also have to make 30 documented cold calls on old jobs each day, before you could even work on something new. Then they would just pass the job back to someone else after a month and keep going. Having jobs with 500-1000 VM's attached to them were normal. Again, these are system requirements, and not even good system requirements.

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Softworld Response
2mo
Thank you for your candor. It appears from your review that your tenure occurred years ago, and you're right that there have been personnel, parent company integration, and process changes more recently. Furthermore, some of those changes have reflected pieces of the business prioritization and particularly older job categorizations that you're alluding to. That said, many of the most successful recruiters in the history of the company worked within the same business structure, customer base, and opportunities that you refer to. Dozens of recruiters have built combinations of 10-plus year careers, leadership achievements, multi-million dollar GP portfolios and ground-up growth paths under the same model. Those numerous success stories respectfully would have been impossible under a primary staffing model that you describe. Our model has never been perfect, and we've always operated in a "what's best for the business isn't always easiest for recruiting" mindset. That has yielded some frustrating assignments, particularly for senior recruiters accustomed to other environments that may have featured less individual accountability. While some of the job order assignments and tasks you're describing doubtlessly occurred, our years-long double digit growth and individual success stories paint quite a different picture for many people. Our model (both then and now) wasn't for everybody, and we wish you best success in wherever your professional travels have taken you since your time with us. If you have anything more to add, including anymore specifics you think would have improved the business, I can be reached anytime at 781-373-8452. Thank you again for your review.
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