Pluspunten
- they often organise fun parties involving alcohol - nice office - westernised culture
Minpunten
They expect you to come in and perform on Day 1, even if you’re still attending trainings, trying to learn the jargons for the industry you recruit for, figuring out how things work. Their expectations on new employees can be extremely unrealistic. When you speak to them, they would say you have 6 months probation, but they expect you to meet your KPIs on your first few months. If you are not performing, they will put you in a performance management program with more KPIs to meet, none of the ex hays employee actually completed their probation even if they’re not performing cause they will manipulate the whole situation, say things that will make you want to leave. They will start off by saying “this job is not for everyone”, then give you options to either resign or go through that program, and there is a risk that you might not be able to meet KPI and get terminated subsequently. It will make your life harder after leaving Hays. There was no communication from my manager that I got into pre-performance management, and I only found out during mid month because the whole time the manager was telling me that they will email me my monthly KPI and if I don’t meet them it will lead to further actions, but they did not explicitly tell me this is called “pre - performance management”, it’s unfair and I was left with half of the month to try and hit my KPI, felt like they did it on purpose. There are also favouritism going on in the office. Those who are close to the managers often get more chances even if they fail to meet Kpi, they get special treatment. Not as meritocratic as they claimed to be. It’s all a facade. Just don’t join if you are not into sales, even if you are willing to try but not sure if you can perform, please try it out in other recruitment companies like randstad, Michael page etc. not here, just… no.