Pros
You get a lot of entry-level human resource training and exposure to the staffing industry. Great place to get your friends temporary positions. You learn human resources legal hiring paperwork: criminal background checks, drug screens, EEOC, I-9 verifications, W-4, education verifications, and employment verifications. This positions allows you to help manage 6 staffing manager's calendars, screen the phone calls for the recruiting team, answer general human resource questions for all candidates working. Process weekly payroll for 300 candidates. Not very complicated, but you have to call and email all candidates that have not submitted their timecard each week which gets old. You have to learn a lot initially, but once you get the hang of the paperwork and data inputting of candidate files, the work gets monotonous.
Cons
No room from growth. All front desk coordinators start out as temporary employees until all 6 managers decide they like you. Employees that last in this position are very high energy, agreeable, organized, and don't mind sucking up. If one of the staffing managers does not like you, you probably won't last. They expect you to stay for at least 1 year, max 2 years. They say they'll help you find positions after a year of tenure at their clients, but it's never happened. You work closely with a second front desk coordinator. The 2 front desk coordinators do not sit anywhere near the rest of the company.