Pros
If you want to do a bit of cash on the side after college, you are ready to put in more than 40 hours a week and you are fine with working in a glorified call centre this a suitable job. The colleagues are amazing. For having a good and qualified manager you have to be very lucky. HR is great.
Cons
Do not be like me and think “of course there is just negative reviews because people who have nice things to say are less likely to write it”. Big mistake, I can see completely where every person is coming from now. Do not expect any career progression in this job (recruiter)Do not expect to be happy coming to work in the mornings for your entire time as the work becomes super repetitive once you hit a certain point quite quick (you only have two main tasks: lead gen and calls every single day). Also the recruiting agency advertised a salary 10k higher than you actually get. I don’t know whose fault that is but since the group of people that I joined with raised it and there has been new joiners since then reporting the same thing, no one bothers to fix this. Further you are just a number in here and have to deliver the required targets which are probably 50% being good at the job and 50% luck. Clients treat the most amazing Council Members with no respect and so does GLG. People do not even get a sorry if the time that they set aside for the clients has been cancelled, if they do that is down to you if you have the time to bother and tell them. Which you will not have as you cannot care as a normal human being, you have to think about the next 5 recruits you are supposed to bring in which will rarely get called as well, which has nothing to do with their or your quality at all. You have to consider yourself lucky enough that the client actually comes back instead of ghosting, yet you are forced due to metrics to deliver on projects where clients don’t bother ever responding, wasting your own and the people you speak to time. If you raise this kind of feedback to management you will be shut down. I have seen people struggling in this job and asking for help to succeed. They did not receive any help or more feedback and were being pressured instead by extending people’s probations if not ending up firing them in the end. I do not want to point fingers at anyone being evil in there because the disfunction comes from a way higher level in my opinion as this company exists about 20 years now. Fair play if you can’t change the job but at least give good people opportunities within the company and be a good company to work for because that is currently not the case. I could probably write an entire essay on this, however I hope this gives people the insight they need to determine if they want to work here or not.