Disgusting treatment of staff - steer clear of this place. - Senior Recruitment Executive Hays Employee Review

1.0
Jan 20, 2024
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Pros

Training is good and professional from the outset but the politics, favouritism, heavily archaic views on staff management make this a bad place to work. Very poor treatment of staff, mispay internal staff constantly and then they blame the manual based system. They will use and abuse staff if the senior leader is a bad egg. Some insecure leaders exist at hays trying to sandbag good staff. Severe culture issues, retention system that provides a workplace that push 20yrs olds to work hard and anyone older out the door, no conflicting priorities allowed. Stay away or leave after you are trained!

Cons

Toxic workplace, not based on meritocracy Hemmorage staff constantly and leadership team based on favourites & luck. Social events should be banned here based on bad behaviour.

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5.0
Jan 23, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

They have helped me land 2 contract, work quickly and are kind

Cons

I was the benefits were a bit more affordable

4.0
May 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great place for new recruiters to gain experience. A lot to learn. Younger crowd, fun teams.

Cons

Competitive, people that weren't succeeding would be put on PIPs and eventually let go. Can be some micro-managing. Not all managers created equal - some great, some not so great.

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