Pros
- Good place to learn to recruit for different jobs and industries. - Opportunity to learn to work for managers who may not know enough about recruiting to provide competent management of projects/ searches/ RPOs and/or people. - Opportunity to work with virtual teams. - Opportunity to learn to work in an ever changing environment. - Global exposure via affiliation to Korn/Ferry. - Definitely the place to work to build tolerance for instability.
Cons
- HR creates and tries to implement staff development tools that could be effective if they were taken seriously and used company-wide. - HR too often is not involved in employment decisions. - As with many companies, incompetent employees can work at Futurestep ad infinitum if they have friends in high places. - Sells solutions and advertises concepts that are not applied in-house. - Sales team brings in business that is approved by management regardless of the company's capacity to deliver. - Workforce planning and change management is done on the fly. - Inadequate tools that compete with each other instead of complementing each other. - Sourcers have insufficient and/or inadequate tools. - Very high turnover. - Departments compete against each other. - Employees are obviously dispensable.