Corporation that churns employees like butter - Staffing Manager Robert Half Employee Review

As a Staffing Manager you will be expected to be glued to your computer and phone constantly calling companies that don't want to hear from you, and have likely been badgered by Robert Half for some time. You will be cold calling. You will have the phone hung up on you often and even if the company says that they are not hiring or requests not to be contacted again your manager will likely make you feel like that's no excuse not to call them and make it out to be your fault if you do not establish a relationship with the company. You will be expected to reach an obscene amount of people and make valuable "connections" with them every single day. If no one picks up, if you have a bad list of companies, or if these companies are not interested in talking to you, you will fail. All of your calls, connections, and sales are tracked meticulously and underperforming will get you fired. Robert Half is a publicly traded company and they have a need to perform for their investors, so sales goals are high. Your hours will likely be 8am - 6pm (50 hour weeks) but you will only be paid for 40 hours. You technically have a lunch break - but the culture at the company is to work through your lunch so you will feel like the slacker if you go out for lunch, especially if you have not hit your connection or sales goals. This is a very competitive environment that will require you to constantly be selling. Most people around you will not like their job and that vibe is obvious around the office. For temporaries, you will be finding people work at companies and paying them a little over half of what you charge the company! That's right! If the employer can only pay $17 an hour for an accountant, you will only be paying the temporary accountant you send to that company roughly $8.5-10 an hour. The employees you hire out are underpaid because Robert Half takes a huge percentage in order to pay you and keep their nice facilities running. The ratio is calculated and reflected in your sales reports so if you are only keeping 30% of what you charge your clients (the companies who hire) your managers will notice. You will obviously also make less money this way if you are on commission. There is high turnover because people 1. don't like the job, and 2. underperform. You will see people leaving often. The work is the same work, all day, every day. There is very little variety in your job as a Staffing Manager and no need to innovate. You will call people to try to convince them they have a hiring need, you will look for candidates, you will fill jobs. Sure it's a bit more complicated than that but it's on the more bland side of the spectrum of work types. I was told by all of my colleagues when I first started that there is no possible way to meet your daily and weekly connection expectations until you have a big book of business, so I should fake them as much as possible while making them seem realistic. They all had tips on how to do this. I agree that there seems like there is no possible way to meet these connection goals when you first start, but I was uncomfortable with faking the connections - what's the point of waisting my time with writing about connections that I didn't have when I could be selling. The problem is, no matter how good of a salesperson you are, you may not reach your connections every day but you are still expected to have those numbers on your board. Everything is tracked and reported. Your managers may be understanding to some extent if you don't hit your connections but you will be under pressure to make as many connections as your coworkers so that you don't seem like you are underperforming, and many of your coworkers will likely have the edge of creating fake connections. I just don't agree with a system that encourages dishonesty. * The pay will likely be a salary at first, that will turn into a commission after you are able to make the mount of salary you are achieving in commission sales. This is a goal the company sets for you. You must fight for a high salary to start - you will be living on this money until you bring in commissions. If they say you don't need a high salary because it will make it harder for you to reach your goal - just remember, you will be living on the salary that you start at until you reach commissions equal to your salary which could take over a year. Successful candidates can make hundreds of thousands of dollars as a Staffing Manager with Robert Half, but you'll have to work extremely hard at sales for a long time to get there.