Does Forward Role Recruitment pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Forward Role Recruitment employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Forward Role Recruitment. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Forward Role Recruitment?

84% of Forward Role Recruitment employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Forward Role Recruitment 4.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.4 for culture and values and 4.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Forward Role Recruitment?

Recruitment Consultant (9) , Recruitment Manager (3) , Senior Consultant (3) , Senior Recruitment Consultant (3) , Director (2) , Manager (2) , Senior Business Manager (2)

What are the pros of working at Forward Role Recruitment according to real employee reviews?

"Great culture" ((in 7 reviews)); "Flexible working with working from home encouraged for senior members of staff" ((in 4 reviews)); "Everyone who works here is amazing." ((in 3 reviews)); "I’ve been put on multiple external training courses for self development, management training and always encouraged to raise any areas I feel I might benefit extra training in." ((in 3 reviews)); "Great office!" ((in 3 reviews))

Forward Role Recruitment Reviews

4.4

84% would recommend to a friend

(47 total reviews)

Stephen Thompson

92% approve of CEO

89% positive business outlook

Company ratings over time

Ratings trend for the last 6 months (47 reviews)

Forward Role Recruitment has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 47 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Forward Role Recruitment employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

Reviews by job title

47 reviews

5.0

21 Oct 2025

Brilliant people and business!

Senior consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Great business and people to work with and culture!

Cons

None that come to mind.

5.0

25 Jul 2024

Best company and people I’ve worked with

Senior recruitment consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

- lot of autonomy to chase business and drill down into any niche available. - Fantastic learning and development schemes, regular training and brain storming sessions. Directors and lead consultants very generous with their time. - Fantastic support on wellbeing side. Brian and Phill are fantastic from a pastoral sense and will always have time for you. - great commission structure, strong benefits, incentives, sales days etc! All in all fantastic firm with brilliant people at the core. Wishing them long and continued success!

Cons

No cons from my side.

5.0

19 Jun 2024

Best rec place to work

Principle consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Super flexible, not KPI driven, everyone is friendly. When management says they're going to do something they do it.

Cons

Only con for me was that you couldn't work with teams or zoom in the rds so had to work around that with meetings.

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