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3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(1,010 total reviews)
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Jan Gupta

66% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Modis has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,010 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Modis employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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2.0
3 Aug 2016
Recommend
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Pros

no pros for the current company and the way it is run

Cons

focuses on metrics such as how many phone calls per week, how many people you meet with, whether you have a position for them or not. A waste of time to both the candidate and the recruiter. But don't worry it'll change next year when they come up with some other stupid plan that is ineffective. Next to impossible to get an increase in your base. I was there for nine years and never had one increase even though I routinely won contests and made year end bonus. When I first started working here it was a great entrepreneurial type company that encouraged rather than threatened the producers which are the sales people that get the positions and the recruiters that fill them. Most of the people I worked with other than management were really great people to work with. This branch went through over 100 people while I was there, that alone shows that something is terribly wrong. After I was let go I got a measly two weeks severance for my 6,000,000+ dollars I brought in (gross margin profit) for my nine years of service. They used to care about the employees, now they just care about the bottom line and management who makes way too much money compared to what they're willing to spend on the people in the field who are actually bringing in revenue .

2.0
1 Dec 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I thought the company was great when I worked there. Management pumped everyone full of, "There's no company better than Modis," or "Talk to anyone who's left and they'll tell you they regret it." I believed it.

Cons

Then I left for another company. I'm being generous with a 2 star rating. Management doesn't realize everyone can't be managed the same way, in staffing people can be successful different ways. I know of an employee who had the highest spread($ made for the company) in his particular office, and was fired because he didn't make enough calls per day. Not to mention the lawsuit they drug me through after I left.

1.0
11 Apr 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The company actively tries to hire young people resulting in a hip millennial culture. "Monthly" (Read: quarterly) team building events occasionally take the team somewhere fun, or at least get you out of the office for 3 hours. You will probably like the people you work daily with no matter your background. If you can stick it out for a year, you'll either work on a project you can headline on a resume, or work on a project you can spin into something you can put on a resume. The benefits are generous.

Cons

Delusional management applies "one size fits all" metrics to teams, despite some people recruiting entry level IT support contractors and others recruiting senior project managers and developers. Commissions are laughable by any standard - a "great" commission might net you enough to make a car payment and that might happen quarterly - maybe. Part of this is because Modis is so desperate to keep Fortune level companies in its rolodex that it lets their clients run roughshod all over it, letting the client dictate whatever terms they want and paying well below market rate while still demanding top talent. This ruins both yours, the client's, and Modis' reputation, but hey, it lets you stamp those corporate logos on your website, so it balances out right? Right? Going back to the metrics, it's a very Big Brother environment. In addition to monitoring your phone calls and talk time (you know, like a call center) you are expected to have a certain number of submissions per week. If you are assigned to a team that does low-level recruiting such as customer service reps or help desk, you'll do fine. Enjoy your two-digit commissions. But if you are unlucky enough to be on a high-level recruiting team, recruiting people who make well north of $150,000 a year, you will be held to the same standard and will be given little leeway or flexibility. You're only as good as the last time you hit your submissions (not hires, submissions. You don't even have to generate money for the company) But that commission will make it all worth it when you finally do place someone with your client, assuming they don't leave for someone who pays market rate after two weeks on the job in which case you receive nothing.

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