I would not recommend working for the recruiting department. If you are interviewing make sure to ask a LOT of questions. You can expect to work very long hours to even come close to feeling caught up, the phone screens are unnecessarily long for what is actually needed to find out if a candidate is viable so you end up spending hours on the phone with no time to source, there is very little training, the work load is ridiculous and on top of that the managers micro-manage and nit-pick everything their employees do. If you submit an offer to be approved you can expect to be criticized about what you didn't do right instead of congratulated for your accomplishment. I should note that what is "right" changes with the wind here...there is no consistency. They find reasons to personally and professionally attack their employees, even the hardest working ones. On multiple occasions I witnessed each member of recruiting management gossip about their own employees in addition to staff outside of the department (including other managers and executives). They are unprofessional and disrespectful.
