If you are a talent acquisition professional looking for an opportunity where your expertise and knowledge are put to good use, please walk the other way. I recruited for technologists for their Connect Tech platform and it was an eye opening experience to say the least. HR calls all the shots when it comes to recruiting even though they have zero experience actually recruiting. I left most of my meetings with HR shaking my head and exasperated due to their lack of knowledge of today's talent market, especially when it came to technology. I was told at one point that "we just want to hire smart people, don't worry about their skill set." HR is more concerned about tracking and filling out their status reports than dealing with the real issues of recruiting at Nielsen.
The interview process for the hiring of Software Engineers (conjured up by HR) is lengthy and parts of which comprised of childhood riddles. Most SE candidates either were turned off by the interview process or took another offer before the interview process was completed because it took so long. It was more convenient for HR to blame recruiting for a lack of hires than to take a look at other issues like salaries not being competitive, a bad industry reputation, a lengthy and irrelevant vetting process, uncooperative hiring managers, etc.
As a Talent Acquisition Partner, for the most part, I never really felt like a true partner with the business. HR was condescending + uncooperative and hiring managers had very little respect for recruiting and engaged with them begrudgingly in most cases.
Other cons - low referral fees, poor technology choices when it came to recruiting tools and ATS.
