Pros
Best training in the industry! The proof? After 3-6 months, all recruiting agencies will offer you jobs monthly. It can be a really fun atmosphere. We regularly threw stress balls at each other in "The Pit". Happy hours too if you like that. Decent job in that you get a salary and benefits are good. The fact that you can voice your opinion to your manager is healthy.
Cons
Money can by tolerance towards just about anything at a job. A top earner will make roughly 40-46k/year if they are lucky. How did i get this? Here are the facts: 33k base but it's a draw so you pay it through commissions Commissions is off spread. Spread is % off company mark up Example: You hire an engineer at the average salary of 70k/year Aerotek charges 50% on top of that so they make 35k over a 3 month contract Your weekly spread on that engineer is $1,500!!! But you actually get 3% of the $1,500 So you get an additional $45 bucks a week added to your salary. But you have to pay the salary back so you to have $3,000 in spread to cover your base salary So you only get that $45 bucks if that $1,500 is in addition to your $3,000 spread. A VERY GOOD RECRUITER IS 10k in spread a week A 10k recruiter (which i was) must subtract 3k (to cover your salary) and then take 3% of 7k Thats roughly $210 bucks added to your $750 salary pay check Thats $960/week BUT WAIT, theres more!: You work 55 hours a week (off the record) So as a top earner take $960/week and divide by 55 hours Thats $17/hour There's the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAIT!!! There's more!!!!! I gave you engineer recruiter numbers. If you go Professional or Commercial services, you get way less and thus you need much higher volume in which case you will need 40-60 contractors on your books every week.