Pros
- A few of the people I met were decent. - Central location made it easy to get to work. - Admin staff were lovely and a pleasure to talk to
Cons
- Managers are, for the most part, flat out clueless and not fit for the position they hold. One or two managers actually try to manage professionally, but the others are glorified consultants without an ounce of managerial training (training is an issue I will discuss later on). Managers mainly care about what you bill and nothing else. Don't try and turn to them with a problem - they won't care unless it's about making them money. - During my time at jjfox I was dumbfounded at how the Aussie bloke was a director of anything. The training was generic stuff you could teach yourself online. Or, alternatively, if you have an ounce of common sense then you would probably know it anyway. He was a decent bloke but it's bizarre how he had the job he had/has. - Staff turnover in the company is a very open secret and also a running joke. This is morale destroying for any new starters. - Interviews are an ego boost for management and are mainly a test to see if you can put up with being treated like rubbish. If you can take it then you will fit right in. If you can't take it then you will not fit in. Either way, you are more than likely to be offered a job due to staff turnover issues. - Trust me, your contract is not worth the paper it is written on to the company. Managers wouldn't understand if you brought up an issue with it and anyone higher wouldn't even acknowledge you (as only managers can have an "audience" (their wording, not mine) with anyone higher). - Issues about work times have been mentioned by others, but I will reiterate. You will not start after 8am and you will not finish before 18:30 (or 19:00 if training). Contractually you can, of course. But you can expect to hear about it if you come in after 8am or finish before 18:30. Everyone appreciates that this is a sales business and everyone appreciates that long hours are needed sometimes. But creating a cult where you have to work outside your contracted hours every day is madness. Quite frankly, a lot of people are jack all after 18:00. Apart from looking forward to weekday drinking. -KPI's are arbitrary and do not reflect your actual work, or what you do. - As a starter, there is a very high chance that you will inherit a cold as ice desk. Or one that has been completely ruined by your predecessor. As should be appreciated, this can take time to work on and the name jjFox is hardly synonymous with being a good company. This is not the case and you are expected, as a new person with presumably no recruitment experience, to get the numbers coming in asap. - Whiteboard figures are a joke. People lie about them, everyone knows this. Everyone knows that there was a guy from Boston Rose who did it regularly as his numbers didn't remotely add up. Anyone with a brain stem could have told you this. - You are encouraged to lie. Not just sales exaggerations, but flat out, unethical and often potentially illegal lies. - As Smith Corp has multiple recruitment companies, it's meant to be the case that each company is separate to the others as they all work in the same industries. This is not the case. Everyone in the other companies talks to each other. And because everyone practically lives at work, people talk about work. A lot. They talk about clients, jobs, leads. You name it.