They only care about money- HR nightmare - Recruiter TEKsystems Employee Review

1.0
27 Jan 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Meet great people Learn to multitask Great place to start your career, but not stay

Cons

HR nightmare. Constant sexual harassment which is par for the course with rampant office hookups. Racism and sexism are also rampant. My boss complained about heritage & pride months and said "why isn't there a day for straight white men?" I was told by multiple AM's in our office morning meetings that I needed to "hire a 'bro' for this role and to make sure he fit in...a 'Joe' or a 'Bob' if you catch my drift" (verbatim) The company preys on young people who do not know any better about 1) never being able to leave or go on vacation. 2) favoritism in the form of lucrative accounts while the less favored workers have to work 100x harder for significantly less money. You can literally walk into a great account and do nothing and make $$$$ while those who break their backs and make progress slower have to be paired up with a 'successful' account manager. Seen this happen literally every day even though it's common knowledge that the person with the better account could literally never sell cold territory. So, demeaning to say the least. 3) thinking its okay to publicly make fun of women who leave at 5 to pick up their kids OR make fun of adults who do not have kids for wanting to enjoy life and leave by 5:30 and 4) make you tell the entire office your past trauma as a way to guilt you into not leaving. ("But your parents are poor so you need to stay here and make money right?") I was literally told to ask if kids had student loans on the half day interviews. They also make you go out for events after your 14 hour day, because "work hard play hard" aka stay trapped in a pit while they throw a beer at you. You're told that this is the only place to make impact, money, and a life for you/your kids (it's not). You're also told that you have to only love making money, not what you do for a living. All companies know that if your #1 motive is to make money, your business will not be run with good or smart intentions and will eventually fail (as what's happening). There are absolutely NO learning events, just a sales meeting every year where they pick a few random people to go to drink the kool-aid about tek, your trauma, and essentially nothing else. Also, when you do leave you're pushed out and not allowed to tell people so your boss can come up with a fake story about why you left and how you'll never find a good company again. There is no growth at TEK. Any job you do within the company is just more staffing work. TEK is slowly going downhill which makes for constant pressure and less money for those who are doing the work. In recruiter training, a senior leader said to us "work life balance is a myth" You have to pressure people into jobs. If a candidate says that a job isn't great for their career growth...and you know it isn't as well, your manager will literally, physically throw a fit in front of everyone because you didn't "sell it enough"

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

- Decent pay to start. - Account manager is responsive, engaging, and a serious advocate for you and your contract. - Gain access to Udemy Business to build more skills.

Cons

- The benefits suck. - High recruiter turnover with highly variable experience trying to work with them-- some are good, most are not. - Once you are placed, you will be promised regular meetings and then never hear from the recruiter again. - Trying to find a new contract if you are unhappy with your current placement is nearly impossible and I don't believe they are incentivized to help you move at all. - You have to manually request a raise and depending on how you negotiated your contract, you may or may not have the ability to receive one. - There is a cap to how much they will pay you for the contract so even if you work that position 4 years, once you hit that cap you are stuck. I originally submitted my resume with TekSystems when I had finished my degree and never heard back. Many years later, I was approached on LinkedIn by a TekSystems recruiter for a position and he had no idea I was in the system previously. Working with him was good, and I did get the position. Then I never heard from him again and I've had 4 or 5 different recruiters whose names I could not tell you if I tried since then. There's supposed to be monthly calls, they never happen.

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