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Express Employment Professionals

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Express Employment Professionals reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(3,288 total reviews)

Bob Funk, Jr.

77% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Express Employment Professionals has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,288 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Express Employment Professionals employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Recursos humanos e pessoal industry (3.8 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Sep 9, 2010
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

As a corporate company, Express has their stuff together. They have a great business model and a lot of resources to give to their offices. Very experienced team, founders and developers.

Cons

The problem comes with each office being franchised. This means anyone can own it. As myself and colleagues found, Express will let people with no staffing experience whatsoever buy their own office. How can you work for professionals that do not have managment or staffing experience? What happens when these owners are doing things their own way and have no idea of how experienced staffing works? Then there is no internal recourse within that office to get things done correctly. I also heard from a great number of employees working directly for franchise that Staffing consultants are grossly underpaid and all of the profit goes to owners. That was my experience as well.

1.0
Apr 25, 2016
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The only positive thing I walked away with was meeting amazing co workers who became friends.

Cons

First off, If you're looking to start a career in staffing be aware that competitors pay about $10K more per year for entry level recruiters. Their base salary is extremely low and their commission is low as well. In this workplace you are expected to sit at your desk at all times, avoid speaking to your co workers and be able to produce numbers in areas where you receive poor training. Poor training is due to the fact that there is high turnover and no leadership. Employees quit and get fired left and right. There is no HR department so if you would like to discuss anything you will do so with managers in the room together. Managers are family members so essentially if you displease one, you are on bad terms with all of them. There is so much mistrust between employees and management therefore I have seen and experienced a lot of drama! No matter the situation, they create drama. They have a common practice where they like to send employees "home for the day" and you will be demanded to write an email explaining why you want to work there. Their practices are unethical. Needless to say employees are treated like children where it's unacceptable to even take your lunch sometimes. Management's expectations are quite unrealistic where they set goals for the week, month or quarter but do not manage or train to accomplish such goals. At that point when they are displeased you are in for rude commentary and/or yelling from the owners. The most unfortunate experience here was seeing many good employees who are smart with great ideas, great work ethic and who are overall great people leave or fired because of the drama caused by management (family) and poor leadership. If you're looking for a career, this isn't the place to grow. The only positive thing I walked away with was meeting amazing co workers who became friends.

2.0
Sep 9, 2015

Hidden contract

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Find work for you fast and easy. Pay is decent if you have any qualifications.

Cons

You aren't told about a hidden contract with the company they employ you with that doesn't allow them to hire you on for a substantial amount of work hours. If you leave express you can't be hired on to a contracted company for a year.

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