Pros
-culture -meaningful work -very valuable experience in the long run -sets you up for outstanding career (as long as you take what you learn and leave.) My local office had a strong culture of team work and autonomous decision making at the recruitment level which made for a great sense of pride and individual and group accomplishments. My manager was a strong leader and he was a great mentor that I trust and respect. I enjoyed my team and the program's I managed.
Cons
-corporate bureaucracy -overwhelming pressure to produce sales in high volume over high quality. -lowest salary for a recruiter out there - hands down At Maxim, you're working in a niche market. The only staff we hired are nurses and CNAs. Nurses are truly ungrateful and know that you need them more than they need you. Maxim has tough Margins because so much of their office revenue goes to corporate while recruiters make 15k less per year than they should be and nurses are paid 20-40% less than they would in a comparative at any other agency. The nurses are tough but Maxim gives them NOTHING. No PTO, no guaranteed work, very unaffordable high deductible health plans they can't afford and they lose it if their client is sick or in the hospital and they miss work. Recruiters makes 36k with a tiny commission plan. Usually 100 buck a week. Recruiters do not have a coordinator or scheduler. They act as recruiters, HR managers, care coordinators, schedulers, and operation managers while earning the salary of receptionist. It's truly a shame. It's the perfect entry-level job because you learn more than you ever would have dreamed but take what you learn and get out in favor of more rewarding opportunities. Also, many recruiters want to grow into HR management. Maxim only wants You to become Business Development Managers which is a fancy title for business to business direct sales. The attitude at Maxim is greed and act like commission-only vacuum cleaner salesman when they should be focused on quality care delivery to the patients they serve. They will take nurses from a difficult case to work on a higher revenue case and leave the other client without care and then let them fall off their roster. I've seen it happen many times.