Very high turnover and workload - Staffing Consultant Randstad Employee Review

2.0
May 6, 2015
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Pros

Small, close-knit team Pay is decent Support and encouragement from colleagues/branch manager Fast paced - good experience Wine Fridays - social workplace and a good place to meet friends

Cons

The 360 role model needs to go. Its impossible to meet quota when you're expected to sell (lots of cold calling), manage accounts, recruit AND act as a receptionist (the company model is not to have one so staff alternate picking up the phone and assisting walk ins (sometimes get up to 10 a day.) For the first three months you also need to attend and partake in silly webinars which will take up 1/4 of your time. Its extremely hard to balance time with expectations. You're expected to work 8-4 but you will quickly discover your peers coming in early and leaving late and you'll soon follow. Not paid overtime and you will never see the quarterly bonus they promise in the interview... sales targets are simply unattainable. Tight deadlines but too many things to jungle for one person. The 'connect' software is pretty inadequate. There are other small glitches in their processes but I think I covered the main stuff.

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Pros

Loved my team. My Manager was incredibly supportive, understand, and always rooting for myself as well as my teammate's success. Remote work was highly flexible and accommodating.

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Cons

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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