Experis Reviews

3.2

53% would recommend to a friend

(2,084 total reviews)
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Jonas Prising and Kye Mitchell

63% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Experis has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,084 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Experis employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
29 Apr 2015
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Pros

You can bill under £20k a year and not get fired as the place is so terrible they simply can't recruit any talent. Sometimes you see a helicopter out of the window.

Cons

-Management knows nothing about recruitment. Quite a disturbing sexual harassment case involving senior members of staff happened in December 2013 and they are still there. -Payroll offers no support and gets upset at the noisy nature of the sales floor. -Sales floor is like walking among tombstones. -0 talent coming in. you'd think a recruitment company would understand what makes a company great and how to, you know, actually recruit. They don't. -Growing a company through acquisitions leads to constant power struggles. -No regular staff events and if there are, they don't pay for drinks or anything. They'll leave you to get a cab home from the middle of nowhere or you could go back with the director... -Have overheard Senior Management making racist jokes in the toilet. -Everything you ask support to do is a chore and "not their job". -Salaries are very low and the commission scheme is broken. You stop earning commission on a contractor after they have done 12 weeks leaving Experis with the lions share of all of your juicy contracts. -You have to work on low return on investment jobs to keep the old boys clubs biscuits in stock. You will work on roles between 15-18k on 6% basis and are expected to hit your target. I guess this is why no one cares. -Freezing cold offices and the cheapest free coffee and tea going. -Open plan like a prison. All of the work force is on one large floor whilst the 'managers' watch from their cosy offices decorated with their private school certificates. -Meeting rooms unavailable last minute as the non billing staff loves to waffle. In a nutshell, don't join. Read this and move on or join and remember, I told you so.

1.0
10 Mar 2017
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Pros

To be honest at the moment I can't think of any, maybe the hours are decent.

Cons

I started Experis with such high expectations, and it was decent for the first year but I came to realise that when you asked for more wether it be in terms of salary, career help and progression or guidance there wasn't the support available. Why would you continute to work somewhere, put so much effort into doing a good job, hoping to make this a career and you get nothing back. The management there seem to have accepted that Experis is just a stop in the road for most, they aren't bothered about keeping on employees, they are happy to have a high turnover of university grads hoping to make good cash for a year and then let them go. In terms of the management in general, I don't think there is any other worked to describe it than non existent. There is a person there with the title manager in the office but to be honest, he doesn't do any managing, I'm not sure what he does. Higher up on the pecking order those guys aren't too bothered about the little people in the office, as long as money is being made they don't see there being any problems

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Experis Response
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Thank you for taking the time to raise your concerns. Needless to say, I am troubled to learn of your experience. Our business would be nothing without people like yourself who work hard and share our drive to succeed. I can assure you that employee turnover at any level does not make me happy and in fact, the average tenure of an Experis employee is just under five years. With retention and progression in mind, we have been investing in talent - developing the people who work here through coaching, training and tools to help all colleagues accelerate their performance. I will make sure our teams are better aware of what is available following your comments. I would also welcome the opportunity to investigate your comments regarding management and invite you to send further details to me via internal.communications@experis.co.uk.
2.0
2 Jul 2015
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Pros

Nice building, lots of place to stretch around, sales environment, we banged the desks every time someone rings a bill.

Cons

All boys club and every person to himself, people were rude- no one respected you. management was all over the place, we were forced to lie on the phone about the company and incentives. No real training, awful really. Commission was not realistic, sold dreams when first joining of 30-40k in first year. Realistically it would be good if you hit 20 after your 16k basic salary.

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