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1.0
27 Nov 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good people and you can turn up skooshed.

Cons

The term "Recruitment Agency" belies this HR department's tenure of little more than a single client. Never has golfing been so business critical. Guided by the tactical nous of directors who have never worked in another recruitment environment, this company are known in the market as something of a recruiter's last resort. The "save" reviews, all curiously posted immediately after some fairly damning, albeit accurate indictments, screams of desperation. Sadly, the majority of these initial responses were in fact written by management themselves. Nice people for the most part but very much blinkered and suffering severely from tunnel vision. Lunch, ridiculously, is fixed at 1-2pm. Staff traipse obediently in single file down the paint and debris-strewn obstacle course they call the staircase with a play-piece to fill the void. Each week, they are treated to weekly "audits" of their data processing, focussing on the collection of pivotal information such as a candidate's favourite colour. The CRM system used is bespoke in that no other company would be daft enough to use it. An interesting "call-back system" is in play, forcing employees to call irrelevant and unsuitable candidates regularly with the somewhat questionable objective of having a wee chat. Despite management's reassurances that they know Rome wasn't built in a day, the owner, freshly returned from holiday, will be upset that the Sistine Chapel wasn't built (and painted) in his absence. If you are an account manager who thrives on having your livelihood hanging precariously on the thread of a single client's success, this is a no brainer in every sense of the word. Send your scribbles to the HR department (any Anderson Knight email address) to arrange numerous callbacks and a plethora of wee chats

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5.0
22 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Anderson Knight is a good place to work. Its a fair and honest place to work. As for 4 positive comments on the 17th.. which were added due to there being 4 negative comments at the one time, which is factually incorrect. Anderson knight has not been running for 25 years, it has been operating since 2001. Slating a director because of where they have came from is just plain nastiness and bitterness. It is a personal attack and nothing constructive towards the business. Not once have consultants been told they cant talk to one another. No company is perfect to work for and there are flaws in every company and things you may not like, but person attacks on "top billing consultants " "Directors" and "Management" isn't going to make you a better consultant. The Call prompts and audits are there to help and the forwarding on takes all of 2 minutes out of your day.. hardly eating in to money making time. Contrary to the negativity around these comments, Anderson Knight is a good place to work, a supportive business who will try to get the best they possibly can out of all workers. The directors and managers are supportive in both business sense and when it comes to personal circumstances. NO work place is perfect and I wont portray this to be, there never will be a perfect place to work. You may not like someone within the office, thats part of life you grow up and deal with it.

Cons

There is a con in every business, No business is perfect nor will they ever be.

5.0
22 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Since joining Anderson Knight I have had an overwhelmingly positive experience. From my first day I have had wonderful guidance from an excellent manager, who knows my sector inside out and has really guided me. This is my first recruitment role and all the team at Anderson Knight have helped me to make the transition into recruitment. We are an organisation that holds candidates and clients at the heart of everything we do and contrary to slanderous reviews below, we actually have a great reputation across the recruitment sector. We have the autonomy to schedule our diaries and are treated incredibly well by senior management, who are all very approachable. The atmosphere in the office is great and we have a great team. Excellent work life balance also, which I here is rare in the recruitment industry, you stay late if you need too (like any job) and we get an early finish on a Friday which is ideal!

Cons

Recruitment can be a roller coaster at times, however, this is industry wide and not specific to Anderson Knight.

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