Highs and Lows - Recruiter Aquent Employee Review

4.0
3 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

When biz is good, the pay is totally worth it. Freedom to run your desk as you see fit. Flexible hours.

Cons

When biz is slow, you dont get paid. The draw is just an advance on your commish and you have to pay it back. Only 40% fee payout which isn't bad, but I'm starting to see other agencies raise their fee % for recruiters.

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work was remote and easy job

Cons

No cons that I can think of

3.0
1 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent benefits, but Cigna insurance likes to take the cheap route on everything from MRIs to colonoscopies.

Cons

For "budgetary reasons," my contract work for an industrial automation company got "offshored" to Asia. After working on the same ongoing project for over six years, Aquent didn't respond to my application for work on other projects, and they completely cut me off from company email or anything else. In total, I had worked for them for more than 7.5 years, and this is the way they treat people?! Also, I never got a raise in that entire time. Actually, I went from being a fulltime employee to hourly talent when there was an earlier shortage of work.

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