Pluspunten
They do provide a very positive environment when you start and they do have a very good intro training but this quickly fades once you get involved with the company. I would say that the only positive after training was the free drinks/coffee and the happy hour on Friday that is funded by the company. But please don't let this fool you into working here.
Minpunten
They target internal employees right out of college who are impressionable and naive. They then push these people to the absolute max with very little praise or reward. If you don't "drink the kool-aid" (literally what management says in meetings) then you will be looked at as the wrong personality for the company culture. They don't ask or request that you work late... it is expected. And the ones that don't work late... won't be there for longer than a year. Culture in this company is a little bit better than high school. Using that analogy, the employees that have been there the longest are looked at at the cool and popular ones and the ones that everyone in the company should strive to be like. They are given the freedom to do what ever they want with out consequence even if it detrimental to the company and other internal employees. Upper management will then award these individuals even if they haven't done anything to earn it. Yet as a younger employee you will be held to unrealistic goals and expectations. Account managers in this company find them self to be "gods". They will talk down and belittle the recruiters in the pit, yet their pay check is dependent upon how these recruiters perform. They find them selves to be with out consequence for any of their actions because the company looks at them as profit generators and gives them the freedom to do so. Also, since the majority of the Account Managers have been there longer and have "drank the Kool-aid", any thoughts you share or complaints you put in will be ignored because you are not viewed to be as valuable as the account managers. They have a firm believe that recruiters can be replaced and account managers are as good as their weight in gold. Upper Management has some positives but the majority of them are negative. The men who run the Raleigh office are as sexist as they come. If you don't believe me just go look at the girls that work there and then look at the ones that were turned away. It doesn't matter if the ones were turned away had more raw talent... the ones that were hired met the beauty standards that they expect of their female employees. Also, they actually ask in all of the interviews with women if they had been in a sorority and what sorority that was. They will then check to see how popular that sorority was at your college or university and see how you compare in looks to the other sisters. The CEO is a joke. I wanted to say that I liked this guy but the more you listen to him and really understand what he is saying, it is very easy to see that he is fake and superficial. He lacks substance and the general business acumen to successfully run a company. At one point in time he was dating multiple women in his own company. He was slapped in front of his whole company at a Christmas party for bringing one girl from an other office with out telling his girlfriend at the other office. This guy has 4-5 "professional coaches", the majority of these "coaches" made their fortunes cheating people out of money in the Sub- Prime mortgage industry (cause of the financial crisis in 2008). So to sum up the view of the CEO from a professional stand point, he sleeps with his internal employees, takes advice from scummy individuals and views him self as some idol to the people that work for him. Currently this company has such a turn over issue that they are offering a $2,000 dollar reward for people to refer their friends and have them stay for over 3 months. If you don't believe me about the major turn over issue they have, go to Linked-In and see how many people are former employees of The Select Group. It is quite astonishing. I feel I need to address their business tactics now that I have expressed my opinions of their internal culture and employees. If you are a contractor or consultant BEWARE!! At this current time they have a internal contest going on that will reward the recruiter and account manager who have the highest Gross Margin. Basically, they are rewarding the individuals who take the most money from their contractors. In my eyes they were asking me to not pay our consultants/contractors what they are worth and try to talk them down as much as possible. The recruiters will then omit from their conversations that they can offer you benefits, vacation or payed time off. They are instructed to do this by upper management and account managers because if they don't offer consultants/contractors this they then make a higher Gross Margin. It is very unprofessional and a slimy tactic. I support healthy gross margins in business but I don't support depriving people of what they deserve for the sole purpose of padding your pay check. I think my favorite thing about this organization is how unrealistic and unjustified their growth model is but that is a whole other conversation full of black magic and witchcraft. I feel bad and a little strange to say all of these things about this company because when I joined I felt I had made a great decision and that I was going to be making an advancement in my career. I quickly found all the information above to be very disheartening and extremely true. If you don't believe me please go check for your self. I urge you to do your research and ask questions before you become a member of this organization. There are so many better options out there for you. Don't become the next turnover statistic.
