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3.3

59% would recommend to a friend

(412 total reviews)
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42% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

NonStop Consulting has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 412 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NonStop Consulting employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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412 reviews
3.0
20 Sept 2015

An honest truth

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Pros

After reading lots of reviews, i wanted to write an honest article. One which differs from the shameless self promotion of the company, or the extremely negative reviews and false allegations of scam. Pros- supportive enviroment and friendly staff. Everyone is approachable and helpful. The trainers and workshops really develop you as a recruiter while affording you more time to succeed where as other agencies will expect results or the door in 2 months. Nonstop has allowed people to stay 6-12 months or more with no results (billings) as they see potential in those certain consultants.Staff favouritism may have played a part. Commisison is great as you get it in pound sterling which translated to cz currency is loads of money in a vastly cheaper country. Chance to move to other offices.But you must first hit certain targets first. Targets are doable and to be honest, normal days work for a recruiter. Pardubice- 100k population, nice city, has everything you need and cheaper than the UK. Great for your training period. Being abroad also alows you to form tight bonds with your colleagues and real friendships. Great for after work in what truly is a stressful enviroment. Good promotion and commission structure. Excellent bonus once you start billing and the company truly has a meritocratic enviroment. If you can hack working in recruitment and improve you will make money! Prague is beautiful city and if you are organised you can take advantage of the central european location to travel.

Cons

Very much an orwellian enviroment were all your actions and calls are monitored. They call it 'QA'. Recruitment is a very stressful job. To succeed you must become a machine. If you cannot hack making 80-100 calls a day and come in on weekends then its not for you. Secondly, all of that and you have to still show great patience, as you may not bill for months even with that hard work. In the end recruitment depends on your candidates performance at interview regardless of the work you put in. The location - Pardubice, will bore you after a few months, for those coming from big cities eg london, it will shock you in a week or two. Though being here also raises it morale as you see your colleagues everyday, it also lowers it when people get fired and you end up talking about work after work to add to your stress. High turnover- you will see the majority of your friends or your group leave or go on to compeletely eclipse you. You must have tunnel vision to succeed. Your development will hinge on the team leader you get as much as your own ability, naturally some will be much better than others.Politics has meant that the more incompetent team leaders of which there at least 3, remain in their posts. Though they are acknowledged as useless. BUT the czech base wage though good for there is well below minimum wage in the uk. Essentially you are being paid peanuts. Client calls give new trainees unrealistic expectations of how a BD call will go. Every thursday there is an extra 2 hours unpaid calling time. 'Early evening focus' a nice way of titling what is essentially free labour for the company. Likewise new trainees should be briefed before coming over on the earning base wage, time to truly move offices: 8-9 months and other facts of similar ilk.

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NonStop Consulting Response
9y
Thanks for taking the time to leave such in depth feedback. We appreciate all feedback as we continuously strive to improve. While we do still have some people in Pardubice, we have significantly expanded our Prague office over the last year and many of our people have relocated there. This was done following a staff survey which found people would prefer to live and work in Prague if given the choice. QA, our Quality Assurance team, is not a policing tool but rather a training and development tool. They do look into the work practices of employees but only to help those people identify and overcome developmental hurdles. Recruitment may be stressful for some but it is a career where you don't have to take work home with you like teachers or lawyers might. Many consultants choose to put in extra hours in the evening and/or weekends because they can see the results - more placements, more commission. Any company that takes on large groups of people with no prior experience with the view to giving them training and development will see a slightly higher than average staff turnover. Some of these people will realise recruitment is not the right career for them but we are happy to continue investing in such people until they make such decision and hope that those who decide to leave do so with some additional skills and knowledge. The basic salary is the Prague average salary and though it may seem low when converted to Euros to Pounds, the cost of living in Prague is a lot lower than in London, for example. Because our business model is based around training, coaching and mentoring, switching team leaders isn't really practical as coaching takes time. Some of the more senior team leaders hold wider training sessions though so everyone has the ability to learn from a wider group.
5.0
4 Mar 2017
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Just passed the 5 year mark with Nonstop recruitment and things are getting better and better. I went out to the Czech Republic for the training and loved it so much I stayed there for four years! I have now moved to the London office in Canary Wharf and just finished my first year there. Simply, I'm very happy and things seem to just get better. I'm not going to write an essay but I will put some of the pros and cons I have found. - The sheer amount of training and development now just skills in recruitment but personal growth, management training and industry knowledge. - Clear career development. My next step has always been made clear to me and what I need to get there. - The rewards. Not just financial which are very good but actual personal fulfillment and really feeling part of something. - Easily the most important for me is the environment and the people. Not only are the offices great, the people that fill them are incredible and I have made friends I know will be with me for life.

Cons

Now if you're looking for a job that gives you everything for nothing this isn't for you. If you're looking for a career where you're given all the skills to succeed and you have the personal drive to implement them then you're at the right place. There's that cliche in positions about you getting out what you put in. Recruitment as a career actually gives you a lot more than what you put in but you have to have the drive to succeed. You will have knock backs and down moments but show me a career where you don't. - Dealing with people that have negative perceptions of recruitment without having any experience of it. - Candidates/clients not understanding the effort you put in. At this point I've got the experience to show how hard I work for people so not an issues but I remember it was in the past. - Balancing work and personal life. Sometimes it can be hard to switch off as it never really has a quiet period. It never takes a holiday but you need to. - Internal pressure on myself. I don't know anyone who never has a bad day at work but one of the biggest challenges is to let somethings go and focus on the bigger picture. Don't sweat the small stuff as they say.

2.0
18 Aug 2018

A fair reflection of nonstop

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Pros

+ commission structure is good + prague is a beaut + Flexible open to ideas + admin/QA/marketing are really nice, and the Czech staff. + audit system at the start is a good idea to get feedback before you do it

Cons

+ 'Boys' culture of management. There is void of leader in the senior management team. Most have zero managment experience and lack humility, you get the impression they'll walk over their team. Also some aren't aware their actions on a Friday night, form an opinion of them on a Monday morning, Prague is a small place. + Toxic environment. Recruitment is highly pressurised but its a new level at nonstop. I felt sorry for the directors as there is no job security even at that level. They are driven by the fear of being sacked, so they are less likley to be respectful and patient with their employees, more likely to be a little crueler and this filters down. They are a little out of touch, and have a vision of a perfect recruiter, who works 14 hour days, skips lunch and stands up all day shouts down the phone, rather than intelligently using their time, creating deep client relation. Then they wonder why team leaders get burn out and leave. + Leased ferrari - at nonstop the highest prize is a ferrari, but noone mentions its leased, and they can/ and have took it off people in the past despite all their hard work. + Respect when people leave - When someone quits nonstop, instead of appreciating their work, they go into bizarre PR campaign and call them lazy, and insinuate they were going to get sacked anyway. I found this bemusing, and it degrades the job for all the current employees and devalues the work you are doing. Just appreciate that someone worked for you, then decided to leave, don't try to embarass them or put them down.

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NonStop Consulting Response
7y
Hi, Short response as I don't want to burden readers: 1. We own the Ferraris, outright, they are specifically not "leased/loaned/hired". We have never taken one "off" somebody. We may do but given the performance of the team members who have them is very good, it has never been necessary. 2. The senior management team have no experience in Management: They have all managed people for a number of years. Personally I am part of the Senior Management team and have managed people for almost 20 years myself. See above point over the senior management teams performance also. If they were not good managers then like any business with bad managers, it would not be working so well. 3. As a Director myself I can categorically say that I have no "fear of being sacked". We are very good and what we do. If something doesn't work out (whatever that may be) then we learn from it and adapt. There are some people who are promoted into Director roles, if you are expecting them to be perfect then I would point out that we didn't expect you to be perfect at recruitment when you first started? We also wouldn't be able to offer the organic careers that we can if we feared people not being perfect at the job from Day 1. 4. Actions on a Friday night: I don't know what you meant, but we let people get on with their own lives and be themselves outside of work. We don't want to impose. It would be unhealthy for your employer to dictate attitude, behavior, political opinion etc etc... into your personal life. I would also say that it is unfair for any person to criticize anybody else personal life as you have. Personally my Friday nights is spent on a sofa with my daughter, fiancee and dog. So you may be talking about 1 person, on 1 night? 5. Respect for people when they leave: People leave for all sorts of reasons, and people join for all sorts of reasons. I am personal friends with many ex-Nonstoppers. Quite frankly we are a business far too big to be able to go on PR campaigns about leavers and individuals. If you are saying that when people finish there should be no PR campaign, Even if this were to be the case, given that you feel it is not right, I would point out that you are doing the very same thing on Glassdoor yourself are you not?
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