Pros
- Your stakeholders are generally very clever able people and you'll learn various commercial/ business skills through osmosis -The brand really is fantastic on your CV and helped me secure a circa 20% increase elsewhere - You'll certainly leave a stronger, more resilient professional than when you went in - The senior leadership have the right vision in terms of what the role should be, however, executing that is proving difficult
Cons
- The role isn't a recruitment role. I had to carve out time to maintain the skills I had as a recruiter and wasn't measured once on those abilities - The admin in the position is genuinely unbelievable. Constant duplication of work. The recruiter role is an amalgamation of various different ones other than being a Recruiter - Stress leave or being on the verge of stress leave is common. Various individuals have been on stress leave in my team and the wider TA team. It's become normalised to be on the edge of a breakdown. - Insufficient tools to do the real job- LinkedIn recruiter licence was positioned almost as a 'gift ' rather than the bread and butter of being a TA professional. - The role was completely miss sold at interview. I cannot fathom why a Recruiter would be hired for this position considering the classic recruitment or TA metrics aren't measured. - It's progressively become more negative over 2.5 years...it feels like a different firm to the one I joined