Aerotek reviews

Besides great training and free food, Aerotek has little more to offer in terms of a career and long term employment. Once you look past the "enormous earning potential," you will realize that you are being overworked, underpaid, and micromanaged. You will be expected to meet up with your triangle at 7:45AM followed by a meet up with your division at 8AM, then an office meeting called "red zone" at 8:15AM. Red Zone is mainly a waste of time where half of it is the DBO asking why we don't have feedback, why there aren't enough reqs on the board, or hearing the sighs of disappointment when we don't "win." The other half of red zone is listening to praises by others when people do their job. Red Zone typically is over around 8:45AM-9AM. All in all a waste of an hour in the morning. On Monday mornings you will be expected to turn in your weekly report where you have to provide in detail your weekly activities and talk about who impacted you and who you impacted and how........basically a huge waste of time. Aerotek is full of micromangers who want to outline your every second. The main goal is to drive business so Aerotek is always looking to promote recruiters into the sales role typically within 1 year. They also hire entry level people straight out of college so imagine a 24 year old responsible for your career. This person may lack professionalism, does not know HR regulations and policies, may have horrible delivery when it comes to providing feedback but as long as they are top performers they will be in the DBO's back pocket. Depending on your manager this person may want you to do everything the way they would and if you don't you will. When you first start and when you are in your 13 weeks your hours will be from 7:30AM-4:30PM. After your first quarter you will be expected to take part in BD101 which means every tuesday for about 14 weeks you will role play cold calls, first meetings, and introductions with the management team. This is the chance for the management team to see who they would like to join the fraternity. On these days you will be at work until around 7:30PM. After that ends busy season comes and lasts from September through December. This means that they are a high amount of positions. You will place people but since the positions are so low level and low paying these people are unreliable and you will have wasted your time. They will play up the ability to earn uncapped commissions but at what price? Working until around 7:30PM everyday? If you attempt to leave before your peers you will be looked at like you aren't a team player. You will end up working 11 hours days, which is seen as normal. The sales team is even worse. If you are looking for work life balance, Aerotek is not the place for you. If you were in a fraternity or sorority, Aerotek will be perfect for you! You will be expected to know the executive team, our "guiding principles," motto, and build relationships with the sales team and DBO aka be teacher's pet which is encouraged. Bi-weekly meetings on Wednesdays can be seen as fraternity meetings.

As most people say, the hours! You get to work around 7:15 - 7:30 AM because you have to be fully prepared to go for your meeting at 8 AM sharp every day. Getting prepared for that main morning meeting involves meeting with your manager, your partner recruiter, getting your goals for the day, etc. So there’s no leeway there. It’s very obvious if you’re unprepared for the meeting because everyone has to talk about their goals for the day in front of the whole office. Then you leave around 6 PM at the very earliest but seriously most nights are 7/7:30. You’re only making around 50k after the training period, so that’s means your making a really bad hourly rate when you think about it... You do make commission but it’s not super easy to attain and it’s SO unreliable and 100% based on your people showing up to work at the jobs you’ve placed them in. One day they’re out sick takes money right out of your pocket. Another con is the management/leadership. People are promoted too soon in their career into leadership roles and people ONLY start there right out of college. Most people have never managed other people before and now they’re in charge of two brand new recruiters who are starting right out of college. It’s a bad cycle. Poor leadership styles are passed down like that. Truthfully everything is more of a popularity contest (and that’s sales anyway, but it makes it a tough, cliquey environment) than anything. One of the hardest parts of the job is that (depending on what division you’re in) most of your contractors that you put to work are people who make $10 an hour and they’re completely unreliable. When they don’t show up to work, your butt is on the line. Get ready to be berated by your manager for it when you have no way to make that person go to work. I saw this with every manager, not just my own. It’s the company. They blame you for it because they have to blame someone. This happens daily. Additionally, before that 8 AM meeting I was talking about, you are also returning calls from all the people who are calling off work for the day, or you’re calling out to people who were supposed to be at work an hour ago and you’re finding out they never showed up. That brings me to another big con. Even when the day is done or it’s the weekend, you’re still working. You are forced to add your work email to your cell phone and keep a constant eye on it. You are required to call people from your cell phone at 9 at night when they get off work from their current job to make sure they’re going to their interview in the morning and are fully prepared. You are ALWAYS working. You don’t get to have a break to clear your head. You have to consistently check your email every hour or so when at home to make sure you don’t have any emails or voicemails that are letting you know something is going on with one of your contractors that you need to fix and then probably let your manager know about as well. Another con is the amount of hoops you have to jump through to get a promotion. In my office it was common that when you wanted to be promoted, you needed to meet with each manager in the office for a one on one lunch so they could tell you what they think of you (and it was never positive). I watched so many people go through it and be berated that I never cared to do it. I wanted to get as much knowledge as I could and get the heck out of there.