I should have listened to Glassdoor. - Paid Social Specialist Curtis Gabriel Employee Review

Thank you for your review. As CEO, I have recently started replying in order to give some balance and context to reviews left, I feel strongly that yours needs much more detail for interested parties to see. I think the fact you left a ‘comfortable’ job is at the crux of this entire disappointing episode. Firstly, I’d like to place on the record the recruitment process that took place that led to your appointment. The position you were appointed to is one that requires a specialist skillset, and as such demand currently outstrips supply. This means as a candidate you have an advantage and one reason why we engaged a recruitment agency for this post. After 2 interviews, including a detailed case study presentation, we offered you the job. You also negotiated a higher starting salary (well done), which meant you left your comfortable job for a 16% pay rise. Curtis Gabriel also paid the recruiter a fee of over £5k for this. No one could seriously believe that the decision to end your employment within your probationary period is either one we took lightly, or indeed something we would not have done unless it was critical to preserving our relationships with our current client base. We now need to recruit this post again, it's not something we would have wished to do. Regarding the appeals process, it needs to be stated that ending an employee’s employment within a probationary period carries no legal right of appeal. The appeals process in place at CG is there because we have enhanced HR policies that are there to protect and support all employees. Your appeal did nothing to rebuff the reasons for us terminating your employment, and most certainly did not fall on deaf ears. Your appeal was carefully considered before a detailed response was sent to you. I don’t think it’s helpful here to go into detail as to why we ended your employment, but I will go on record to say that serious shortcomings in performance were highlighted to you as soon as they were evident, with considerable support offered. I’d also point out that the decision to end your employment was taken after gathering 360 feedback at all levels. As previously mentioned, the decision we took was a difficult one. This was only done as it was apparent the alternative was potentially considerable damage to the excellent work our dedicated team have done and are doing with our clients. Good luck in the future.