The managing partners demonstrate a horrible lack of integrity. They steal candidates from their most valuable clients and lie about it in an effort to cover up their tracks.
They treat their employees like disposable pieces of garbage. While you're useful to them, they play nice but as soon as they hit a rough patch, they turn on you and bad mouth you to clients and other employees to try and cover up their own shortcomings. Once they dispose of you, you are forced to threaten or even take legal action to get money owed to you. They even keep token items, belonging to former employees, of little or no value that may be left at the office as a sort of trophy. It's weird and petty, but that pretty much sums them up.
Once an employee has left/been fired, they trash talk them relentlessly. Everything is somebody else's fault but never their own. They don't seem to realize that people see through it, and know the same awaits them when they leave.
They are constantly pulling people into meetings and out of business, even though they preach about a focus on activities. They don't seem to realize that THEY are the problem.
They often share inappropriate stories about their drunken, drug-fuelled parties from the night before and frequently drink and drive.
I would encourage any prospective clients or employees to conduct a reference check with former employees of Avanta. Any of us would be happy to give you a realistic preview into their shady practices. The positive reviews on here are clearly by the managing partners themselves. If you read them, they are remarkable similar. They’re too lazy to even do that right.
This is the type of recruitment agency that people love to hate. It's all about making a quick buck no matter who they screw, be it clients, candidates or colleagues. I truly believe the founder is a sociopath who demonstrates an incredible lack of remorse and can turn from being a friend to an enemy on a dime.
