Doing my Duty - Recruiter S.i. Systems Employee Review

1.0
23 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

When I first started I was one of the best recruiters at my branch for about a year. I worked with some amazing recruiters who became some of my good friends. Training is good and coming out learning a good amount about the business.

Cons

I worked at S.i couple of years ago. Looking at all the fake 5 star reviews I had to do my duty and give an honest review. It's a high paced place with no real return on the recruiters end. High turn over. Low Salary and compensation is very bad. The company takes 20% of the salary or total contract amount and the recruiter gets a low 1.5% of that 20%. The company does not care for the employees, perhaps this is the nature of recruitment but I wish for it to be different. As someone who now works in the tech world, I've realized how fake the culture was at S.i. As someone who has moved into an HR role and studied HR, the culture at S.i seems to be charming at first glance or the first couple of months. Then you realize it's a cut throat environment who takes advantage of getting new grads and new immigrants to work in a horrible job. CEO seems fine talking in person. I get a feeling he just get others to do the dirty work for him.

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S.i. Systems Response
7y
thank you for the feedback! always appreciate frank conversation! Regarding recruiter compensation, it was low compared to our peers, and here is what we did about it. We created create a work group of 9 recruiters and account executives and brainstormed a new recruiter compensation plan that is much more meaningful. Starting July first all new recruiters joining S.i. Systems (with or without experience, our training is phenomenal) start with a $50K base salary, commission of 3.5%, with annual salary increases of $5K in base, and an increase in commission to 4.5%, all this plus variable pay! Existing recruiters will get a pay raise to match their tenure. Its a good plan. I disagree we take advantage of new grads and new immigrants. We train new grads and immigrants, and they achieve their dreams. Most new grads pay off their student loans, credit cards, and move out of their parents house in their first year. We see our recruiters and AEs buying new cars in their second year, and many AEs bought their first home from the money earned at S.i. Regarding fake reviews, we ask every S.i. person who gets a promotion to put up a review of their experience in their previous role, good, bad, or ugly. We dont dictate what to say on glass door, it doesnt matter what we say, it matters what employees say. The ugly can often be the most enlightening, and we welcome it. Your review gives us unfiltered perspective, its great, it gives me the opportunity to describe the facts of our recruiter comp plan. If your tenure was at 2 years as per your review your base would be $60K on July 1. With variable, if you were one of the best recruiters, your total pay would have likely been over 90K. Whatever your new role in HR , I wish you the best, and hope that the training you received here will serve you well, and had a large play in your qualifications. With gratitude, Derek

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S.i. Systems Response
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Thank you for the review. Chicago has been a valuable operation to us, we opened it up to get our first experience using our MatchGuide teachnology in the USA, and it has paved the way for us to do acquisition in the USA, of which we will do many over the next 3 years. Chicago was our first USA website, curated database, timesheet to cash process for fully sourced, hire and training on our curriculum, and many other firsts. Our Chicago team has some great talent in it and is doing well creating a foundation curated database of local talent. Chicago is very similar to Toronto and there is potential to have a similar sized organization there, it will require some acquisitions, however that is how we built out Ottawa and Toronto in Canada, then followed on by organic growth. Your point about USA profile is correct, we will need to do a marketing campaign to get candidates onto our website. Acquisitions with a good brand and additional curated candidates will also help. I'm very proud to have an office in Chicago, and a team there. We have local mind and management and are ready to grow. We will! - Derek
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