Robert Walters reviews

Where to start?! Resource Solutions used to be a fun and exciting place to work. Over the past few years the company has gone backwards as it has slowly lost key senior members of staff as well as big clients who are tired of the same old routine of ‘over promise and under deliver’. The company as grew very quickly and bit off more than it could handle, and is now paying the price. The company used to be fun with things such as regular drinks, team events, summer drinks etc. With the loss of clients and important members of staff, It has become much more pressurised environment with the removal of fun and an element of bullying and personal agendas. It has become a favourites club i.e. if you are not in favour with certain the Senior Management or your face doesn’t fit, then they won’t care or listen to you - it has become a culture of ‘do as I say’ with little care of new ideas or a different thought – you just get shot down. New senior people have come in and who aren’t of the same calibre and have their own personal agendas to benefit themselves only – and are happy to push anyone and everyone under the bus to achieve this. They promote their friends and reward ineptness. The business is currently a sinking ship and is driven by the rats, with little direction or any form of idea how to get back to where the company was. During this period of uncertainty and difficulties there are numerous amounts of people being made redundant in a ‘right sizing project’. This process has been incredibly poorly communicated and managed, with mixed messages coming from the HR team and Managing Directors. On the rare occasion of any comms being sent, they are so vague and open to interpretation that the company has a get out to change their minds. What they don’t realise is that the people they are loosing do a lot of the leg work and make other look good. What they are left with (with the exception of a few) are people with no idea what to do, are less than useless and would step over anyone to be seen as being productive. Also, be wary of over positive reviews on Glassdoor and similar websites – take them with a pinch of salt. The company asks employees to post positive reviews after they received rewards such as the high achievers lunch to make their overall score better than it actually is.

- When a consultant is not doing well with their numbers, depending on the team's Manager, sometimes you can hear the Manager shouting at the consultant across the floor. I was very frighten when I witnessed it. It did not only happen once. After the shouting, it was claim that the manager was just "training" her team member and the Directors allowed this to happen. This was not acceptable and made myself question the integrity and values of the company. The shouting did not just include the manager's so called "raising voice" but it was belittling the consultant as a person. I also witnessed a few consultants that left that team because of the stress but the company just blamed it on all the people who left, not the Managers who shouts. - Clients and candidates don't be deceived by the brand, the consultants are taught to only hit their targets, they don't really care what type of candidate they share or the job they introduced, as long they can sell you the job and get their numbers in. - Be prepared to be micromanaged - Be prepared to face colleagues who think highly of themselves and throw you under the bus - Be prepared to face an abusive environment without support of your emotional well being when you are either not a performing consultant or just an average consultant. Only performing people gets to do whatever they want to others, for example, abuse. - No diversity as they only focus on finding like minded people, prepared to be discriminated if you are not like minded with others in the company.