Pros
Work From Home - office occasional. But understand that it’s expected that you do show up in the office at least once a week but they swear you don’t have to come in, but you better have a reason or else you’ll be frowned upon. Salaried plus uncapped commission - Salary was decent for someone coming in entry level. but your benefits are going to eat into this significantly as they’re pretty pricey, the uncapped commission is pretty frustrating as it takes a lot of time to make a single placement and depending on the client and depending on the GP you negotiate, it will take you a while to start seeing real money from your commission. Autonomy - There is a level of autonomy here but the reality is that there is micromanagement that does happen and can get very frustrating when you’re trying to develop business with your candidates or your clients. Culture - The culture here is very wonky. I mean you’re expected to believe that your team cares about you but when business is slow (and it certainly is) you are actually pinned up against your other teams mate because you’re all covering the same reqs. And this is encouraged by management. Not to mention that there is favoritism for tenured folks, and in my office specifically out of a team of 15 plus, there were about 4. Opportunity - Kforce does give opportunity to someone starting out in staffing or getting a job out of college, for me this was really great, however you must understand that your ramp up is going to determine your longevity with the company and its very unforgiving if you’re falling behind. Which I guess is understandable but this really just means can you hit metrics. PTO is decent.
Kontras
The reality with Kforce as is most companies in their industry and the industry they’re serving (Tech) is experiencing slow business. This means that job orders are not coming in and what is coming in is getting covered very fast by and swarmed by recruiters just trying to meet their metrics. The metrics are completely unforgiving, before I was terminated (due to not meeting metrics despite the fact that I was actually increasing my numbers in all areas [this is actually true]) none but 2 tenured recruiters were hitting the actual required KPIs that the firm set as a standard. If you’re not hitting that or not trending that way, expect to be put on a performance plan and expect to be looking another job. It won’t matter if you are an actual good recruiter who tries to do right by the clients you serve. In the battle between business and pleasing management, the latter will always win because of job security. They will tell you and train you to avoid being a transactional recruiter, meaning you are just trying to get a submission, but in reality that’s what it’s become because God forbid Kforce does a layoff, instead they systematically set up people to fail so they can terminate you instead. This happen to several of my colleagues. Favoritism does run rampant here and if you’re in good standing with management you’re in a better place, which means face time with your manager matters a ton. Also expect to work an insane amount of hours and be stressed out of your mind, the more business you acquire the harder your life will become and they expect you to work late and it will severely impact your business if you don’t.
