Brightwater Reviews

I’m sorry you feel your time here at Brightwater has not been a success. As a company we will always strive to improve our working environment, like everyone we have areas that we need to improve and we will take your feedback on board – our only regret is that you did not voice these concerns while you were part of our organisation. Our ambition is to create an open and collaborative workplace, where sales targets are jointly set to encourage individual ownership across the business. We are developing and refining training programmes for all our staff, providing them with the best technology and tools to help them to succeed. Our mandate is to offer the best in class service to our candidates & clients, we do expect very high standards of work from our consultants. That said, we have to acknowledge that our ambitious plans, high expectations and energised team environment will not suit everyone’s way of working. I of course wish you the best in your future - Barbara McGrath, MD

Thank you for your really kind comments, we're delighted you're along with us for the journey and we can't wait to see what we can achieve in 2020 with passionate, enthusiastic and hard-working team members like you. Kind Regards. Barbara

I am very sorry that you didn’t come to me at the time if you felt like you do – as would have been made clear at your induction we have an open door approach as a Management Team and would have been able to have an open and honest dialogue about your concerns had you brought them up during your brief tenure. Professionalism is at the heart of everything we do - regardless of the vertical you work in with BW our dress code is suited and booted which is made clear from the outset. If your previous career was less formal, that may have been a reason to find fault. We are also strong supporters of autonomy for our people and would be happy to let our consultants work independently yet still adhere to our corporate professional standards. It’s only when people consistently fall below these standards that we would step in to help, providing guidance and support meetings with the relevant Manager/Director As a company, we do have quite a broad range of incentives and benefits, many of which are available immediately and others that are available depending on seniority and tenure so a stint of three to four months would not be sufficient. As a company, we prefer to reward loyalty and hard work. The majority of our staff have been here more than five years (senior management at least 14) as our leavers/ intake this year is minimal. That said, recruitment is not for everyone. I wish you the best in your future career. Regards, Barbara

I am very sorry that you didn’t come to me at the time if you felt like you do – as you will know from working in BW for a year, we have an open door approach as a Management Team. We are very careful to ensure that we do our best for both client and candidate and it’s simply impossible that a member of senior management would advocate lying to a client or encouraging this type of bad practice. This practice is not something that we would condone as a business. In answer to your comment about control, it would be about controlling your own actions during the recruitment process and making sure that you have both given and received all the correct information. You are right; we cannot control people but we can train our consultants to be in full control of the process as much as they can to ensure that very little happens that is unexpected from a client and candidate perspective. I am biased but believe and know we have the best people in Ireland on our team. Recruitment is not for everyone but at BW we want to give everyone the opportunity to reach their full potential in our business - Friday meetings are about sharing relevant market information – but if you thought this was irrelevant then you are right, recruitment and BW are not the career or company for you. I wish you the best in your future career. Regards, Barbara