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Progressive Recruitment Reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(82 total reviews)

Mark Dorman

50% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Progressive Recruitment has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 82 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Progressive Recruitment 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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82 reviews
1.0
30 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are none! You even have to wait a month before being paid!!!! (The whole point in Contracting through a agent is to be paid weekly!)

Cons

Not enough space to write! Underhanded, rip off, liers, thieving... You will be ripped off with your rates both yourself and the customer. Like all agents they do nothing for there money. When I questioned on the such big cut they took, I was talked down to that I shouldn't be asking these questions and I shouldn't be so greedy and they have a lot of things to pay for, like the company cars! (A Porsche was one of them!) They had screwed me and the customer and I went to talk, I told them that they had not represented me and I was sacking them and they threatened me with court told them to go ahead. The customer who's management I got on with very well wanted to take me on direct and they then threatened them if they did they would sue even though they had been found out how little of the rate they where paying to the contractors and why a lot of them were so disgruntled! One positive they lost the contract to supply contractors there! They arnt known as aggressive progressive for nothing! Please please take heed and stay away!

1.0
2 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None that I can honestly think of aside from the client list the somehow maintain besides clearly stiffing contractors every chance they get

Cons

Very unprofessional and shady business ethics, a nightmare to deal with, refuse to use any other form of communication other than rushed phone calls. I was pressured to accept their offer, which the client hadn't even made yet, even though I had a competing offer on the table. Take the biggest commission on contracts of an recruitment agency I've ever worked with, as an example the contract they had with the client was charged at £420 a day with the contractor getting £320, that's roughly 25% commission which is 10% over industry standard(which in many opinion in the IT contracting sector is still far to high for companies that essentially do zero work). When confronted about the frankly huge margins they simply denied it and I was told I was being greedy by blowing the whistle on their unacceptable practices.

1.0
4 Nov 2013

Probably the Worst Recruitment Company in the UK

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If there was anything good to say, I would tell you. There isn't.

Cons

They always paid me late and they always underpaid, it was then the a fight over the telephone to get my money paid into my bank. They always had many excuses for the reason I was underpaid, but I was never overpaid - strange that...........

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