Full of False Promises - Recruitment Consultant Navartis Employee Review

1.0
15 Jul 2025
Recommend
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Pros

You learn the truth about what goes on in recruitment

Cons

Working hours don’t add up. The day is 8am-5pm (9hr days) with a full lunch hour not allowed, as I quote you are told ‘if you take the full hour you are already halfway out the door’. Make of that what you will. To add to this, you are expected to arrive 15 minutes early at least and likely staying behind until 5:15/5:30pm each day. This totals to 9h 30m - 10h days, bringing weekly hours to almost 45 hour weeks, but paid a 37 hour week salary (minimum wage). You soon learn about the fast track scheme, however, once you achieve your promotion many incentives are taken away. For instance, the ‘company car scheme’ was taken away conveniently as soon as I reached this level. When I noticed others at the same level, receiving it. Bringing it to my next point on a biased treatment of staff, depending on who you are. The chern rate of staff leaving is very high and seems from previous reviews this has always been the case. You see many people come and go very quickly. Expect to lose all personal relationships outside of work due to the extreme work life balance. This role destroyed my personal relationships outside of work. I also seen this happen to many others. A final note, I can confirm the reviews about bonus are true. Never on time, many excuses as to why not, however for some it seems to always come on time and in abundance depending on who you are.

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Navartis Response
11mo
Thank you for sharing your experience. While it’s difficult to read, we do appreciate your candid feedback and regret that your time with us left you feeling this way. We take concerns around fairness, work-life balance, and inclusivity very seriously. These are foundational values we aim to uphold, and we’re committed to continuously reviewing our policies and practices to ensure all employees are treated equitably and with respect. If there have been inconsistencies in our processes whether related to bonus timelines, progression incentives, or hours, we acknowledge that these are areas we must improve. We also understand that recruitment is a demanding industry, and while many thrive in the fast-paced environment, we recognise that it’s not the right fit for everyone. Your feedback will be shared with our leadership team as part of our commitment to creating a fair and supportive workplace. We sincerely wish you all the best in your future endeavours and thank you again for helping us reflect and grow.

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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience, we do use these reviews to help understand where we need to improve and also to see where we are getting things right. Reading your recent review we are sorry to hear that you didn’t have a good experience. We do pride ourselves on recruiting people with little to no sales experience and developing them into successful recruitment consultants and we have a huge amount of success stories, which we are truly proud of. We feel our training and development is one of the things that sets us apart part. We also fully appreciate that it is a tough job, that requires a lot of determination, focus and dedication and due to this, some people that join find that it’s not the right role for them… which is common in recruitment. We wish you luck in whatever you choose to move into. Navartis
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