Rullion Reviews

4.4

90% would recommend to a friend

(141 total reviews)
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James Saoulli

95% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Rullion has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 141 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Rullion 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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141 reviews
1.0
11 May 2018

Sycophant City

Recommend
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Pros

Leaving the organisation and writing this review

Cons

The company has no clear direction. It announced its self as One Rullion in January 2017, then 6 months later it takes one part of the business, renames it and moves it elsewhere. The hierarchy are a harem of women employed to stroke the self proclaimed "visionary" leaders ego, there is a vast bullying culture from the management teams within the Head office. Failure is often rewarded with promotion as long as your ability to brown nose is of a high standard. From the inception of "One Rullion" the organisation has lost many of its more established and successful consultants and replaced them with 3 dozen 19 year olds with bum fluff moustaches. Although internally they are known as the creme de la creme of the organisation. Rullion's values are tripe and their aim to be the most admired recruitment business is what can only be described as utter drivel. If you are a man in your 30's - 40's your opportunities are vastly limited within the organisation unless you are in the Idonotagreatdealotherthanwaffleonaboutfiguresbutdontgenerateanynewbuisness gang. There is also a huge divide between varying parts of the business. Amended policies are not rolled out to managers and consultants unless you are in the "Rullion club". Don't ever expect a pay rise and if you ever dare have an HR issue its highly likely you will get the boot for your trouble. Other than this it is a great company.

1.0
10 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Office location Some good brand clients, coupled with some very low margins <10%

Cons

It’s usually the companies that support and thrive in the bad times that truly shine in the good times. In this case, it’s Rullion’s major downfall. On the first announcement of lockdown in 2020 Rullion cancelled all commission, a few days before payday. New commission scheme released in 2021, nearly a year later, which is significantly less reward, for more the same amount of work (?) There are many other recruitment companies that have furloughed a huge number of staff and let a number of people go, but also a large number that haven't cut pay. Go to those places. There have been some mental health initiatives, which are great, but do not make up for the financial deficit felt by staff, especially in a sales environment. Rullion is not an incentive led culture, there are no lunch clubs or annual holidays, so commission is really the only reason to continue. Micro management and trust is a problem. KPI’s and spreadsheets to monitor all activity. Very little execution or leadership when it comes to ‘new’ clients. Very top heavy, a lot of managers with 15 + years tenure. Opportunities aren’t widely available unless you work for the major accounts, which have a high turnover. There are a high number of people who have stagnated in their role for 6 + years meaning, if they ever quit, you can get a promotion. If you’re on Glassdoor thinking about joining Rullion, don’t. There are plenty of agencies in the North West who are thriving, not surviving.

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Rullion Response
5y
Hello, Thanks for providing us with some feedback. We're sorry you aren't happy working for Rullion at the moment. This isn't our intention and we always want our colleagues to feel valued and fulfilled working for us. 2020 was an undoubtedly difficult year for everyone in many respects. Lockdowns created a challenging business environment that meant we had to adapt both our ways of working and incentive schemes in order preserve Rullion's future for our colleagues, candidates and clients. However as you mention above, we've recently introduced our new commission scheme, which has been developed by our Rewards Squad, a team comprised of your colleagues from across the business at all levels whose task it is to look at incentives and bonuses. They conducted extensive research and have compared the newly developed scheme with other commission models and benchmarked it against external factors. We're confident in our new scheme and have received lots of positive feedback from across the business. It's important to us that you feel trusted to do your job, although also recognise the importance of tracking key metrics to help us monitor business performance. Our senior leadership team work tirelessly to forge partnerships with new clients and will always aim to share the vision and strategy we have as a company that we ultimately want you to be a part of. Sorry to hear you feel you're not developing as you'd like within your role. Our Pathways Programme allows individuals to undertake a Personalised Development Plan which sets our specific aims and objectives that allow our colleagues to develop at their own pace and progress within their career. This is available for all our colleagues, across all areas of the business and within all our accounts. We also advertise all jobs internally meaning people have the opportunity to move laterally into another area of the business which they may be interested in. Please get in touch with us on marketing@rullion.co.uk to discuss this further. We'd be really keen to rectify any issues you feel you're having. Many thanks, Rullion
1.0
30 Jul 2021

Avoid this company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some staff are good, others haven’t got a clue what they’re doing.

Cons

Poor pay and benefits, lack of direction, describe themselves as “agile” but take about a million years to get anything done, CEO lacks any real knowledge of what is actually going on in the business. I would avoid this business at all costs - it is like a sinking ship.

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Rullion Response
4y
Hi there, Thanks for taking the time to leave us this review. It’s disappointing to read that you had a negative experience during your time at Rullion. We do all we can to ensure everyone who works here has a positive and enjoyable experience, and have worked hard both before and during the pandemic to improve our internal communications and company-wide updates, as we recognised this was something everyone craved from us. In relation to pay and benefits, we had to make some difficult decisions in 2020 to ensure financial security across our business, but we feel that with the recent rollout of our new commission scheme, following research and external benchmarking that we are able to offer both competitive salaries and earning potential through bonus. In terms of other benefits, we have also fully embraced remote working and feel we offer an excellent level of flexibility to all employees to ensure they can enjoy a work / life balance along with a whole suite of perks which stand us out from competitors, our enhanced payments for maternity leave, our long service awards and increased time off, to name but a few. Our CEO James takes part in regular executive meetings and personally reviews comments received via our anonymous employee survey, so while he may not personally roll out all communications, he has a keen interest in the welfare of employees. Many thanks Helen
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