This company is a joke

as a 4 yr veteran of this organization, i can tell you that their business model is based on purely numbers and creating fake job orders to lure candidates for leads, collect resumes and feed their resume database. And due to the high internal turnover, if you're not in front of a recruiter, then you'll get lost in the shuffle when that recruiter is gone. Then you have to rebuild that relationship all over again 2-3 times in a year. Their employee morale is extremely low and it is one of the lowest paying staffing organizations in business with the highest mark up to their clients. Senior managers themselves admit they don't follow half of the advice they put out on corporate marketing brochures which are used as tools to gain appointments and drum up business from hiring managers.

I couldn't agree more. Robert Half seems like the most elite staffing group until you actually work in the inside. They cram unqualified candidates into positions and underpay them, all without the customer knowing. The front line sales team can't work hard enough to live up to the unwavering company matrix. 12 - 15 hour days at Robert Half will not give you the pay they are promising nor can you stand the management while working there. They are absolute brutal slave drivers and can't possibly compensate for the amount of work your required to do while employed.

A day in the life of a Robert Half employee.
For those of you who are considering becoming a staffing manager with Robert Half (or their subsidiaries – Accountemps, Office Team) here is what you can expect.
You will never meet a more toxic group of human cockroaches anywhere else on the planet. I have spent my entire career in the dog-eat-dog arena of corporate sales (earning well over six figures in prior positions) so I am not unaccustomed to a pressure cooker quota driven sales team, but Robert Half is truly impressive.
The first thing you will notice, if you are unfortunate or desperate enough to join their ranks, is the awe inspiring level of micro-management you will receive. It’s starts first thing in the morning at 7:30 with a “Board” . Here you will rehash with your bosses exactly the same thing that you went over 12 hours earlier at the PM “Board”.
Next, you will hit the phones, in a call center / boiler room setting.
This is the perfect setup for the “managers”, who sit right next to you, to interfere with every call you make. Imagine making 125 calls a day (which is the minimum requirement) and having two people constantly interrupting you and everyone else every time you get someone on the phone. “Close for the Direct Start, Close for the Direct Start!!” they’ll yell - regardless of the conversation you are having. The District Manage will walk around behind these two and will ask what’s wrong if there is more than a 30 second pause between calls.
Lunch? Forget about it. I’m not a bleeding heart and I usually work through lunch anyway but after 4 hours of nonstop calling I find I’m much more productive if I take a short break. There’s no time for that at Robert Half. Lunch is for the near constant conference calls the company engages in, endless paperwork, and continuous voicemails from candidates.
Near the end of the day – at 6:00 or so you will do the PM board to give an update with your team. Your manager will review with you a line-by

I have never been more disappointed in a group of so called professionals in all my life. And I have never been more embarrased over working for a company. Shame on you Robert Half executives - you turn a blind eye so you can keep cashing in your stock! As a former RHI employee I speak from experience when I say the following. I was not one of the unlucky ones forced out or fired because of "underperformance". I actually left on my own, after making good money, in sheer disgust! If you are interested in seeing your upper management team drunk at company functions, join RHI. If you believe you should take money from your candidates' pay rates so you can maintain profits during an economic downturn, join RHI. (RHI is so bold that they actually sent out several memos with examples on how to back into what you should pay the candidate based on what the client was willing to pay.) If you enjoy your boss treating you like an idiot unless you repeat verbatim their word tracks, join RHI. If you enjoy being micro managed by someone who has no business experience outside of staffing, join RHI. If you enjoy watching people lie to clients by telling them they have a background in the area they are trying to staff for, join RHI. If you enjoy seeing good people be fired while incompetent managers and Regional VPs keep their jobs, join RHI. If you prefer not to have original thoughts or use your education, join RHI. If you enjoy seeing out of work professionals beg for a job while you stand in the way because your fees are too high, join RHI. It is a sales organization and that means goals-no biggie-but you still have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror. If you like holding your head up high and being proud of your employer, think twice about working for this organization. When times get tough, their true colors emerge and it's not pretty!