Hit or Miss Environment with handful of great people - Recruiter Kforce Employee Review

3.0
8 May 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Overall the company is a great company, they are really trying to keep up with the new and upcoming technologies for the staffing world. If you are in sales or recruiting and you work very hard you can get paid really well, they have company incentive trips and lots of flexibility with hours/working from home when needed.

Cons

The company's great culture is often skipped in some offices and among some people. The company is so large and simply cannot create the same environment in each office. I worked in several offices and worked for some great leaders however it only takes 1 bad leader to destroy an office and lose great people. After several years I realized that the bottom line and the profit in the managers pockets seem to be the only thing that matters even when they know they have a horrible manager in the office who is unethical and unprofessional. The Dallas/Fort Worth (specifically Fort Worth) office is a drama filled, catty environment with a very lazy and unprofessional manager leading the team. Dispite complaints, because the Fort Worth business continues to grow, the manager's actions are overlooked. In addition, local management are focused so much on KPI's and their appearance to Sr. Leaders that they often require you to enter KPI's even when the actions aren't being done. The focus is on the number of interviews, calls and visits you make and not about the quality of the activities.

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5.0
9 Jun 2026
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Pros

Work Life Balance, the comradery across the whole firm.

Cons

I wish I could travel for work more.

2.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent salary base, probably could be a really good paying job if the job market was better

Cons

Definitely a typical, corporate sales culture where you are defined by your metrics and your metrics only. They are money grabbers, and their commission structure isn't that great. After 2 years you lose 50% of your commission from contractors and they eliminated early release days before holidays. My office started becoming a "bro culture" and the leader was clearly trying to act like "one of the guys" with the males in the office. If your market is slow with reqs, they expect you to reach out to other offices for subs which is hard to do when other offices favor their own teams' recruiters. They'll likely give you a picked over req or one not close to the money that their own team didn't want to work on. I had to reach out to other offices daily to basically beg for a req to work on to hit my metrics. To add to it, the PTO structure for salaried employees is not how they described it when I joined. 17 PTO days total (including sick/personal time btw) and it is actually accrued throughout the year. I had to use PTO for sick time and a vacation, so when I left I had to write them a check for my balance! Talk about a way to really give someone the boot when they're on their way out the door.

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