The truth about Robert Half

I am a 6 year veteran of the recruiting business and I thought that Robert Half could be a good place to be as a perm recruiter.....boy was I wrong. You get no training, no proactive involvement from management other than "tell me if you have a question." Robert half expects you to do the following:
? Interview 3 (45 min interview on average) people every day with everything that this entails
? Conduct client visits
? 50-80 mpc calls per day
? Conduct references
? Search adds and do add calls
? Present candidates to other open job orders
? Get 2 job orders per week (real job orders)
? Manage all the communication with incoming candidates

The truth is they get you in with a higher base salary. What they do not tell you is that this is a very Darwinist environment where several recruiters a tasked to all the same information in a shared database where there a few rules other the watch your back!! Your fellow recruiters will back stab you in a hart beat if they feel they can profit from it. You spend half your time wondering if the resume you forwarded to your coworker ever made to the client because the person who had the job order also sent their candidates to the same client.

The problem with Robert Half is a gigantic conflict of interest between their environment, where they want you working 12 hrs per day, and the ability to actually function as a team. Each man is out for themselves in a team environment. For the most part it is very weak management at the branch level and all decisions are made by corporate with little regard for others.

This is a terrible place to work where everyone will smile to your face while they are sticking a knife in your back.

Yes. New recruiters are there to scour up activity for the more experienced guys. Just a few people really make money at RHI. The rest are just plankton. They rarely last long and are not expected to last long. The amount of training and support will vary by city / office.

That IS the RHI model.