Great people, but don't get stuck here longer than a year or two - Recruiter Aerotek Employee Review

- The hours are tough, 7:30am-5:30pm is the minimum expectation. More often than not, people are also working through lunch, staying until 6pm/7pm, and working over the weekend. - No work life balance. It'd be hard to have a balance with these hours in general, but you also have contractors calling and texting at all hours and weekends so you never really leave the office. - Office outings, team building events, and general office culture are often based around drinking. It can be fun for sure, but someone who doesn't drink could easily feel isolated. These events also tend to lead to an office environment where the lines of what is "work-place appropriate" are really blurred. - No long-term career growth opportunities if you don't want to go into a sales position. When I was hired I was told that there were multiple long-term growth paths to go down, but it became clear pretty quickly that it was sales or nothing if you wanted a promotion or any type of manageable schedule. - Everything is micromanaged. This is done for the sake of "holding people accountable", but having your every action tracked and scrutinized is exhausting. In my opinion, this and the schedule is why people get burnt out so quickly. - Upper managements' answer to every problem is that you need to work harder or stay later, and there is no outlet to express opinions or suggest improved operation techniques. Even if you are hitting metrics/KPIs, you are made to feel like you're not doing enough. Directors want everyone to operate the same way they did it as recruiters 20 years ago, and it's just not realistic with how different the economy is and how much more competition is in the staffing industry now. - The financial incentives for high performers is the carrot that is often dangled for new recruiters, but it's not made clear how few people can realistically get to that point as a recruiter.