Would not recommend to anyone - Leaving this month - Recruiter Kforce Employee Review

1.0
21 Feb 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- National presence with offices in almost every state of the country - Multiple divisions that offer flex and search services - Ability to work from home

Cons

As a recruiter, I typically advise against these sites, but because I am leaving this month, I feel obliged to share all of this with you to let you know - BEWARE - Management is completely out of touch with what their employees are doing - Management is constantly under scrutiny from the executive level which shows in their work ethic, and management style ( Nation wide cuts of management in Q3/Q4 of 2016 ) - Favoritism is clear, and even a suffering employee who is not producing will get free hand outs for unwarranted work - They cannot train and retain employees properly, everyone is leaving me - They take the fun out of recruiting when they consistently implement new standards on top of new standards and make it extremely unclear as to which ones are still relevant - Recruiter Credit takes precedence over client and candidate satisfaction - Overall the NYC office is a toxic environment to work in

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent salary base, probably could be a really good paying job if the job market was better

Cons

Definitely a typical, corporate sales culture where you are defined by your metrics and your metrics only. They are money grabbers, and their commission structure isn't that great. After 2 years you lose 50% of your commission from contractors and they eliminated early release days before holidays. My office started becoming a "bro culture" and the leader was clearly trying to act like "one of the guys" with the males in the office. If your market is slow with reqs, they expect you to reach out to other offices for subs which is hard to do when other offices favor their own teams' recruiters. They'll likely give you a picked over req or one not close to the money that their own team didn't want to work on. I had to reach out to other offices daily to basically beg for a req to work on to hit my metrics. To add to it, the PTO structure for salaried employees is not how they described it when I joined. 17 PTO days total (including sick/personal time btw) and it is actually accrued throughout the year. I had to use PTO for sick time and a vacation, so when I left I had to write them a check for my balance! Talk about a way to really give someone the boot when they're on their way out the door.

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