Be ware. Shady practices encouraged - Account Manager Kforce Employee Review

1.0
16 Sept 2015
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Pros

I worked at Kforce for over 2 years and in my time there did create some good relationships within my small team. I also was able to make good money for my amount of recruiting experience.

Cons

The management there encourages shady behavior in its recruiters. I saw recruiters fake reference checks, alter resumes with false statements, and even tell candidates that they did not receive job offers that they in fact did, just because the recruiter did not like the markup the deal would have been at. The culture is corporate beauracratic with a higher importance put on appearance than performace. A horrible work experience and only a stepping stone for true staffing professionals who inevitably will leave for a better role within 2 years. Be wary and if other staffing options are there, lean towards other agencies.

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5.0
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Pros

Work Life Balance, the comradery across the whole firm.

Cons

I wish I could travel for work more.

2.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Decent salary base, probably could be a really good paying job if the job market was better

Cons

Definitely a typical, corporate sales culture where you are defined by your metrics and your metrics only. They are money grabbers, and their commission structure isn't that great. After 2 years you lose 50% of your commission from contractors and they eliminated early release days before holidays. My office started becoming a "bro culture" and the leader was clearly trying to act like "one of the guys" with the males in the office. If your market is slow with reqs, they expect you to reach out to other offices for subs which is hard to do when other offices favor their own teams' recruiters. They'll likely give you a picked over req or one not close to the money that their own team didn't want to work on. I had to reach out to other offices daily to basically beg for a req to work on to hit my metrics. To add to it, the PTO structure for salaried employees is not how they described it when I joined. 17 PTO days total (including sick/personal time btw) and it is actually accrued throughout the year. I had to use PTO for sick time and a vacation, so when I left I had to write them a check for my balance! Talk about a way to really give someone the boot when they're on their way out the door.

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