Average Employer - Recruitment Consultant Walker Hamill Employee Review

1.0
14 Oct 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Not much to best honest. Maybe the location of the offices and the freedom to book time off.

Cons

There were a lot downsides: - Difficult colleagues and management. - Difficulty freely being able to pose questions to seniors when you were unsure about a procedure. - Toxic workplace culture - not sure if this was due to the clashing of recruitment personalities that creates a strange environment. - Strange hierarchy mentality amongst senior individuals in the organisation.

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Walker Hamill Response
1y
I am very sorry that you did not enjoy your time with us and found both colleagues and management difficult, there isn't however a toxic culture and as a group I think that we all get along very well. Management do sit on desks, with their teams, and this may on occasion lead to a feeling of them being omnipresent, but I genuinely don't think that we are at all hierarchical. Everyone chips in, we work as teams on assignments, are collaborative and there are no special privileges with seniority. It is fair to say that we have had few senior hires from outside the Company and have traditionally preferred to promote from within, with a strong core of people who have all worked together for 15 years . This may at times lead to a very definite Walker Hamill culture. I sense that this may have been your first or second job and I hope that as your career progresses you may reflect and hopefully reassess you experience with us once you have had exposure to additional management styles. I am glad that you liked the offices and the freedom to book time off.

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Pros

Great reputation in the market and very well respected company.

Cons

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Walker Hamill Response
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Thank you very much for your kind review. We wish you the best of luck in your career going forward.
5.0
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Pros

Great company where graduates are able to to develop and learn from a welcoming, supportive, experienced and driven management team. Got the opportunity to work with a great range of clients across industries, from PE backed companies to FTSE 50 clients. Equally, our candidate base are all high quality, so you get the opportunity to headhunt and work with individuals with excellent profiles from your first day. Learnt a lot about developing both client and candidate relationships and what best recruitment practice looks like. Great mentoring scheme and fantastic team culture, fast-paced environment. Excellent salaries and corporate benefits and social culture, including frequent after-work socials and generous company parties.

Cons

Quite long working days, however these are needed to get the most out of your role and are practically needed so as to offer flexible times for candidates that we meet. No other cons.

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Walker Hamill Response
7y
Thank you so much for what is a highly motivational and kind review. You have highlighted what we hope are some of the key company strengths of high quality long term client relationships, outstanding candidate access and team orientated and knowledgeable consultants. We hope that the culture is welcoming and supportive and wish that we sometimes had more time to spend on formal internal training than we do. With management and experienced Consultants integrated on all desks, hopefully we can provide immediate advice, mentoring and and support. We have recently also appointed a highly experienced external trainer to lead a series of courses for both Researchers and recently promoted Consultants, to hopefully also help provide an additional perspective. We are also working on sending messages re going home when not busy and hours continue to shorten. Thank you again so much for the positive and generous review.
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