Proclinical Reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(183 total reviews)
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Paul Strouts

89% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Proclinical has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 183 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Proclinical 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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183 reviews
1.0
31 Mar 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Well, there are some good people there, but they tend to leave quickly

Cons

Where to start: - Be aware that this company was funded by a few people who have their own “inner circle” of protected and privileged ones (even if they are unable to do their job properly) - The recent shift of management has brought unwelcomed changes: people are much more controlled and micro-managed; there is more pressure on KPIs (one of the few good things until some months ago were the reasonable KPIs) and commission structure has changed in order to privilege people in the top management One example is from this difficult times caused by the virus: due to the fact they do not trust people working from home, they are now checking them every two hours and instead of trying to ease the stress and the pressure, they are asking people to increase hours on the phone and pressing candidates and companies more (is this a company who cares about people?) - There are some people, particularly those in good with the management (without any merits apart from g binge drinking with them), which are always receiving benefits, as for example being included in incentives trips even without reaching targets and get randomly promoted as well - They spend an awful lot of money in parties, but if you ask a laptop for working from home due to COVID, they don’t have the budget (ridiculous) - Some people in the middle management think they can manipulate people with their useless speeches about how much they care about your career progression, when they are just thinking about how much money they will gain at the end of the quarter (and honestly people are smarter than you think, stop believe you can manipulate them) - Client service managing is giving the fault of their mistake or unsuccess to their, when it’s pretty clear that they don’t have the expertise to manage the client - Team leads are the worst. They obtained this job title thanks to the effort made by their resourcers (often more experienced and more capable than them) or, even worse, talking them down in front of the management and giving them the worst positions There have been a few cases of bullying there, e.g. management (HR!!)laughing on how new entries are dressing or behaving I would never go back, even if desperate, so be careful during interview, when they are trying to present them as good as they can!

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Proclinical Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback on your experience with Proclinical. We are disappointed to hear that your perception of the business and your colleagues is of this nature. I would like to address some of your comments as we feel that some of them are unfounded and misleading. Proclinical is well known in the industry as a company that has never been ‘an aggressive KPI driven business'. Our KPIs have remained the same for many years, 15 in total and are regarded as low for industry standards. Our commission structure adapts and evolves with the business every year, as it does most recruitment agencies and if you have been with the business for more than one year, you will be aware of this. As we continue to grow as a business, with 16 offices globally, this is completely normal and necessary for many reasons. If anyone is reading this and has concerns then I would welcome them to approach our TA team to review the schemes and judge as we benchmark annually and we believe it to be strong for the industry. During these challenging and unprecedented times, we are proud of how we quickly and efficiently set up all 215 of our employees to work remotely across the globe, providing company laptops and equipment where possible and across all 16 offices. With the on-set of Covid, our first concern was about the safety of our employees and given that 60% of the company uses desktops and the lead time for our supplier (Dell) is a month at time of writing this response, we asked everyone that could use a home laptop to do so for assistance, so people could keep working from home where they would be safe. This isn’t to do with money or investment in the slightest, just speed and safety. Managers have been keeping in touch with their team members regularly over the past 2 weeks but this is to ensure they have the necessary support and tools to do their job effectively whilst we work remotely. We are keen to ensure that all staff also have adequate support mentally at an extremely uncertain time like this. Some staff are very new to recruitment and need more development and assistance so contact levels depend on the employee. Any employee that attends company incentives or are promoted are done so within the strict parameters of our consistent reward and recognition schemes. The management team work hard to ensure that each incentive is organised fairly and consistently. The comments you make around ‘bullying’ are concerning. I would be keen to better understand your thoughts and feelings shared here through direct feedback, so please feel free to out to reach out to me directly on j.kinsella@proclinical.com.
1.0
15 Apr 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some good and friendly people, mostly coming from lower levels

Cons

I am not the kind of person who usually write this kind of review, especially because I always had good and positive experiences in my career, but here, was not definitively the case: - Management is useless, some people find themselves in apical positions, without any job-related merit, but because they are best friends with the management - Salaries are ridiculous, 24k as average for people (even if they have PHDs) who are working hard and long hours in a very niche industry - They like to recruit unexperienced people, in order to pay them less and because they are usually not willing or mature enough to go against management even when they absolutely should - If you are just a person with a self-esteem and willing to share your views, you are going to end up in the “blacklist”, so your career there is ended - Team leaders are so scared of people under them doing better, that they try everything to make their resources unable to achieve any success - Lots of discretionary decisions made just to privilege some people - zero flexibility, zero trust

1.0
23 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-We have linkedin recruiter - Average commission structure

Cons

-Roles in Clinical Research have dissappeared, and you can easily verify this from our website and from our consultants linkedin account activity. Clinical Research recruitment is not what used to be, and the managers know that. I am sure they will post soon a response as they dont want the new employees to know the truth. -Many colleagues who have joined us from the competitors, have left after a short period, and they dont include this employment on their linkedin. -This place is getting a KPI led company, where people dont matter only results, calls & how much money you are making for the company. - Company boasts about rewards, but if you are making good commission, the reward is like peanuts for the ones who will never get the big money. I was promised I will make good money, but the market they assigned me cant generate that commision for anyone. -The managers are nice at interview, once you start it's a different story. Hence people leave so often. - Training is average, and there arent many tricks they will show you. -Unethical environment & the main focus is on manipulating the candidates

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Proclinical Response
8y
Thank you for your review. I am disappointed to read some of your views, particularly as you have stated that you are a current employee. As HR Manager I would like to think that ProClinical pride themselves on listening to and understanding the needs of our employees. We have completed one internal anonymous employee engagement survey and one external anonymous engagement survey since July last year and are in the process of working on our next one. Our action points from each survey conducted are communicated in all of our quarterly kick off presentations. To add to this we have quarterly individual reviews, a suggestion box and senior management hold open door meetings at least once a quarter with the last one being last week. Our KPIs have remained the same for a number of years and we strongly feel that our CV send out target of 1 day is fair and particularly low for industry standard. We feel it’s important to confirm that after checking your suggestion that people do not list ProClinical as an employer that only one consultant has done this since the start of 2017 and they left the company for personal reasons with the full support of everyone at ProClinical. We would disagree on the view of Clinical Research recruitment however if you are a genuine current employee then we would strongly suggest you speak to myself directly about an internal transfer to a different vertical focus. We have done this previously many times to great success and this could allow you to have the performance level required to have the amount of success you suggest you wish to have.
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