Robert Half reviews

100% cold calling, do not let them fool you into thinking these are warm calls where there are already established relationships. If a relationship is established that means that customer is already one of your co-workers client and you are not allowed to talk to them. You need to be a telemarketer for this job, if you are used to a consultative sales approach you will fail here. The level of Micro Management is absurd, everything is measured and quantified and then reviewed twice a day with your manager Hostile work environment, it is every man for themselves and since there are no territories you have to get used to snakes stealing and calling on the clients you established a relationship with. Management will not care if the client was stolen as long as money was made! Arguably the most confusing commission schedule of any fortune 500 company. I asked people who worked there for 3 years how it worked and they were still confused, but they told me it is not good. This is a turn and burn boiler room sales environment! If this is not your style, stay away. Full Disclosure: Me and everyone single person I was hired on with was fired within 3 months of working there.

One big con is working for the contracting side as opposed to perm recruiting. There is a huge turnover, they are constantly looking for recruiters. I wondered about this since the working environment is ok. Here is the con. What they do is hire a recruiter to find candidates for jobs the sales people found. As a recruiter you split commissions 50/50 with the sales person. Once you have a decent number of contractors on board each earning you a commission for every hour they work Robert Half will begin to find reasons to fire you. Once you are gone they divert the commissions of the still working contractors you would have received to a house fund which reduces costs and makes the manager look good. Then they start all over again advertising for a new recruiter. The sales person also receives a bit for helping set you up to be fired. It may not be done on all offices but I've learned from several former directors that it's widespread. A couple of directors told me they couldn't live with themselves so they found other employment.