Technical Recruiter - Anonymous employee TEKsystems Employee Review

2.0
20 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As a 4 billion dollar company you do get insight into a large corporate structure and network. TEK overall has a great training program, and is a solid place to get your foot in the recruiting world. If you're lucky to be at an office with strong leadership the work can be rewarding as well. I also fondly look back upon the relationships I fostered with my consultants.

Cons

Lets start with the fact that they pay you $12/hour until you successfully recruit a certain sales quota. During this "training" period you go through mindless activities and exercises that are a complete waste of time. Therefore, rather than learning on the job you waste time doing things like role plays. I would much rather have spent those hours working towards "earning" my salary. Which brings me to my next point, the hours. TEK breeds a culture where getting in at 7:45 is considered late and leaving before 6 is considered early (didn't matter how much work you had completed). Next, I will particularly only phrase about the Charleston office; the culture is absolutely terrible and "Senior Leadership" are just tenured individuals who only care for themselves. The individual who oversees this office should NEVER be allowed to be in a leadership role.

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5.0
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Pros

Great culture, process, training, leadership.

Cons

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3.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

- Decent pay to start. - Account manager is responsive, engaging, and a serious advocate for you and your contract. - Gain access to Udemy Business to build more skills.

Cons

- The benefits suck. - High recruiter turnover with highly variable experience trying to work with them-- some are good, most are not. - Once you are placed, you will be promised regular meetings and then never hear from the recruiter again. - Trying to find a new contract if you are unhappy with your current placement is nearly impossible and I don't believe they are incentivized to help you move at all. - You have to manually request a raise and depending on how you negotiated your contract, you may or may not have the ability to receive one. - There is a cap to how much they will pay you for the contract so even if you work that position 4 years, once you hit that cap you are stuck. I originally submitted my resume with TekSystems when I had finished my degree and never heard back. Many years later, I was approached on LinkedIn by a TekSystems recruiter for a position and he had no idea I was in the system previously. Working with him was good, and I did get the position. Then I never heard from him again and I've had 4 or 5 different recruiters whose names I could not tell you if I tried since then. There's supposed to be monthly calls, they never happen.

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