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Express Employment Professionals

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Express Employment Professionals reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(3,287 total reviews)

Bob Funk, Jr.

77% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Express Employment Professionals has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,287 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Express Employment Professionals employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personalwesen industry (3.8 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
May 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The franchise owner genuinely wanted to serve others and make a difference due to his conviction regarding his faith.

Cons

Very much stuck in the 1990s and has an old-school outlook on the workplace. It was business formal and was asked to wear heels daily. The most unfortunate part about it was I was hired on as a manager, started, and then was required to be a team lead until I got the swing of things. Two weeks later someone who would have been on my team started and disclosed his salary. I was to be his boss, but he was making $10K more than I was. I had negotiated my salary and his base was what I was denied. After finding this out, I quit three days later.

2.0
Aug 5, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Express Seattle had good benefits, it was a relatively easy job, it's pretty autonomous, and it CAN BE great pay if you're a grinder and deal with rejection well. It's a tough job, for every 50 losses, you might get 1 win. But if you stick with it and can be successful in this role, any sales position for the rest of your career will be a cakewalk.

Cons

The owner says that he is hands on and will mentor you, but you'll be lucky to see him, or interact with him more than once a week. It's essentially door to door sales, and there are essentially no opportunities to move up, or be promoted unless your branch owner wants to make you a general manager, or a co-owner. It's also hard to sell a product you don't believe in, and it's hard to believe in it when you're telling clientsthat an employee who gets paid $16/hr will cost $30/hr. Or if they want to direct hire an employee outright, they'll have to pay 20% of their salary to Express. They're also unrealistic on some "KPIs". I was given "door pull" goals and had to go to 50+ businesses/week prospecting. Often I was told to go to high end skyrise towers and go door to door "until you get kicked out by security".

3.0
Mar 9, 2019

Word of caution

Recommend
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Pros

They train you on sales, if applied to other industries can work but you will notice most reps only make it a year or less. Better than selling insurance

Cons

If you go to work for them, you will discover IF YOU ARE NOT A TOP 50 sales rep they wont listen to anything you have to say or advice you have, despite, having sales experience. Matter of fact they don’t want you to talk at all to other sales rep because you can’t even make the top 50 list. Reality is they run each branch differently and you may not make the top 50 list because of things like you don’t have a good enough recruiting plan, the office I worked for only recruited part time so most jobs couldn’t even be filled and Im talking about basic jobs that only require a driver license, or your territory size makes no sense. If you are outside sales , you don’t get credit unless the inside recruiting person fills the you job you brought in. Thing is they burn you out, benefit vary between franchises, I didn’t get vacay for the first year which lead to burnout. would also say work life balance is no fun, they pay you for 40 hrs but i regularly worked about 50 and was expected to attend networking events at night. Just so someone else might know what they are getting into.

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