Took 2 months to get me into position after I had been hired. Had to keep contacting them for next step & oftentimes multiple requests to get response. Had me running back & forth to get background check & other foundational efforts completed, as they didn’t know what the process actually entailed. This meant a number of unnecessary [lengthy] trips to various locations for nothing. Issued incorrect information about position specifics / skills, etc needed. I visited w/ employer 1st day & saw it wasn’t good fit. Shared w/ employer (good company & staff) that I wouldn’t take the role. IG then bugged me to file for full day payment – so they could bill the employer. This persisted & I had to insist they stop as I saw it as unethical to charge the employer for a literal meeting.
IG not terribly different from the many realtor-esque recruitment entities these days. IG is very cliché presence of such piranha organizations. Serve as little more than an unpleasant employment parasite obstacle for industry & talent to necessarily negotiate. Pronounced air of entitlement among IG staff making swallowing the fact they were stealing 30% of my income over life of contract. Do little more than get in the way of any good process, bring donuts & take massive sums of your money.
I’ve never written such a review. IG bugged me to write a positive review for them on Glassdoor before they even got me into new position. Literally asked me to write positive review & send to them for review before posting – & they didn’t even have me working, yet! This is ironically the main reason for my posting this. NOT a good experience.
I first was contacted by the Vienna, Virginia office in February. The job they said I was perfect for involved more IT, than Project Management. I told the recruiter I was not experienced in IT and that I did not think this would be a good fit for me or the client. She assured me it would. After numerous phone calls, a phone interview and emails, I was finally able to meet with the client in person for a face to face interview. This happened only after I made the initiative to call him on his cell phone because I could not get an answer from the gal I was dealing with. The client told me to call him if I needed to ask him anything. I was getting the runaround from the recruiter and was fed up. Actually I was dealing with two people. The “recruiter” and her “supervisor.” They were both inexperienced, unprofessional and basically told you what you wanted to hear. After the client contacted Insight Global to setup the interview time and place, I went on the face to face interview and it went well. The Insight Global recruiter told me I am the forerunner for this position and basically I had it. I was informed that the client wanted to do another phone interview only this phone interview would involve me speaking directly with the client’s client which was the VA Hospital in the St. Louis area. The Insight Global gal sent me all the information in an email along with the conference call number. So after preparing for hours on what questions I was going to ask the VA and doing research on them, I dialed in the number. It was the wrong number!!! I had to call the client on his cell phone and explain the situation. The Insight Global recruiter also told me I was going to be interviewing with the VA. This was not true. I was meeting with another associate of the clients and basically was asked all questions pertaining to IT. I knew then this was a big waste of my time for the past month of dealing with this company. Not only did they provide me with inaccurate information, they lied to me. I was then contacted a few weeks later from a recruiter out of the St. Louis office. I was reluctant to deal with them, but they assured me this was a “perfect fit” again. Of course I fell for their BS….again. After meeting with their client and interviewing, I was dealing again with two people, the recruiter and supervisor. A young guy and gal who talked so fast it was as if they were jacked up on speeders. I was told for a fact I had the job. Not only was I anticipating working for their client, but I turned down two other job offers because of what this young kid told me. I was emailing, calling and leaving messages trying to get a start date and finally after two weeks, the Insight Global recruiter called me and said there was some miscommunication. Yeah, there was. His miscommunication and flat out lies!!! He gave me the runaround and told me three different versions of why their client decided not to hire me and they were trying to find me something else. I told him DO NOT EVER, EVER contact me again and to take my name out of their database. This company and the young unprofessional kids they having working for them are a complete joke!! I have worked for many staffing agencies and this one is horrible to say the least! I have never met such a group of liars. Not only did I waste another month of my life with them, it was a total of two months I wasted thinking I had positions with them and I didn't. I turned down job offers because of their lies they told me. I am a single mother who has no income currently coming in and I am anxious to get back to work. I thought I had this job and I did not. To lie and do this to another person is inexcusable and unethical. After reading all the back comments about this company, I am grateful now I did not go work for these charlatans.
The Absolute Worst employment agency on the planet! If you are a professional job seeker it would be wise of you to avoid using Insight Global. They will call you endlessly with projects that don't exist, while repeatedly contacting and riling up your professional references in the process. The single assignment they placed me on, ended prematurely due to the lack of readiness and resources at the client site.
Insight Global. Ha! What a joke. They employ entry level personnel calling themselves Lead Recruiter (s) when they are just as unemployed as the candidates they attempt to hire. If they do not meet their retention quota of candidates, then they are out of the company. You see, this type of pressure leaves these co-called lead to take extreme drastic measures regardless how unethical they may be. Ok, given this scenario below you will see the point in which we are trying to convey:
Scenario: This scenario will contain 3 variables: Customer A, Customer B, and the rental car agency. For now we will talk about the rental car agency versus Customer A.
Let's say Customer A needs a rental car because they have to get to work in about 2 hours. Therefore, they contact their local: rental car agency. The rental car agency locks in the customer the desired model and price before assigning customer A: the reservation number.
The rental car agency tells Customer A someone will be out to pick them up in 1 hour. Customer A waits for about 1 hour, knowing they have to be at work one hour from now. Anyway, Customer A receives a call back from the rental car agency 50 minutes before the agreed one hour pickup time- informing them the locked in rate and model is no longer available and was sold 20 minutes ago.
Customer A is furious and feels deceived because he was promised and guaranteed the rate, model, and held a reservation number. Therefore, customer A decides to not do business with the rental car agency after finding out they were not completely upfront and honest after due diligence in research finding the truth about the rental car agency. Apparently, the rental car company reserved the car for Customer A but they also had a Customer B who was willing to pay more for the request car reserved earlier for customer A. As a result, the rental car agency eliminated Customer A to obtain a bigger profit from Customer B.
You see. The same thing happens with staffing agencies such as Insight Global Solutions. They will have you sign a “Right to Represent” for either of them or their client-- sticking you in their Right to Represent queue. Simply, if they get in a candidate who will work for lesser salary or hourly wage, then they will submit “that candidate”: NOT YOU. At the end of the day, they win either way. You still remain in their Right to Represent queue” leaving you ineligible if another staffing agency comes along with a higher offer for the same position. According to so-called Lead Recruiter Brandon Smouse, if you even attempt to sign another Right to Represent form siding with another agency, you will be eliminated from that job opportunity by their client.
In conclusion, our word of advice to all candidates out there: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING FOR AT LEAST 4 days. Believe us when we say, SOMEONE ELSE WILL ALWAYS OFFER A BETTER DEAL via email or phone. The same rule applies to buying a car or home: ALWAYS SHOP AROUND. A majority of the jobs listed online are of public record. Insight Global Solutions know OF this and will try their very best to deter you from maximizing your income potential. STAY AWAY FROM INSIGHT GLOBAL ONLY IF… YOU WANT TO WANT TO REMAIN EMPLOYED AND NOT JOBLESS.
Stay away from Insight Global. THey contacted me a couple of weeks ago and set up a brief Skype interview that went ok but seemed very short. The girls I talked to on skype seemed as if they had just gotten out of college and I think they were more interested in guaging my age and appearence more than anything else. A couple of weeks later I was called by a third person from the same office who had no clue I had talked to the other two. She pretty much drilled me for about 45 minutes on a job she supposedly had. A few days later, one of the original two girls called and asked almost the identical questions.
This was late in the afternoon(around 7:00PM) and so I wondered what was up. The next morning I got a call from the girl that had originally called me about this job and told me they had decided to go with someone else. When I asked for any more specific reason she was unable to give one. I called once more later that day to get more information but my call was never returned. In the meantime I've gotten calls from at least 3 of their other offices nationwide. I really wonder if I was a victim of age discrimination here, as I had all the qualifications that the job called for. very disheartening and frustrating. Avoid these guys at all costs!!!
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Took 2 months to get me into position after I had been hired. Had to keep contacting them for next step & oftentimes multiple requests to get response. Had me running back & forth to get background check & other foundational efforts completed, as they didn’t know what the process actually entailed. This meant a number of unnecessary [lengthy] trips to various locations for nothing. Issued incorrect information about position specifics / skills, etc needed. I visited w/ employer 1st day & saw it wasn’t good fit. Shared w/ employer (good company & staff) that I wouldn’t take the role. IG then bugged me to file for full day payment – so they could bill the employer. This persisted & I had to insist they stop as I saw it as unethical to charge the employer for a literal meeting.
IG not terribly different from the many realtor-esque recruitment entities these days. IG is very cliché presence of such piranha organizations. Serve as little more than an unpleasant employment parasite obstacle for industry & talent to necessarily negotiate. Pronounced air of entitlement among IG staff making swallowing the fact they were stealing 30% of my income over life of contract. Do little more than get in the way of any good process, bring donuts & take massive sums of your money.
I’ve never written such a review. IG bugged me to write a positive review for them on Glassdoor before they even got me into new position. Literally asked me to write positive review & send to them for review before posting – & they didn’t even have me working, yet! This is ironically the main reason for my posting this. NOT a good experience.
I first was contacted by the Vienna, Virginia office in February. The job they said I was perfect for involved more IT, than Project Management. I told the recruiter I was not experienced in IT and that I did not think this would be a good fit for me or the client. She assured me it would. After numerous phone calls, a phone interview and emails, I was finally able to meet with the client in person for a face to face interview. This happened only after I made the initiative to call him on his cell phone because I could not get an answer from the gal I was dealing with. The client told me to call him if I needed to ask him anything. I was getting the runaround from the recruiter and was fed up. Actually I was dealing with two people. The “recruiter” and her “supervisor.” They were both inexperienced, unprofessional and basically told you what you wanted to hear. After the client contacted Insight Global to setup the interview time and place, I went on the face to face interview and it went well. The Insight Global recruiter told me I am the forerunner for this position and basically I had it. I was informed that the client wanted to do another phone interview only this phone interview would involve me speaking directly with the client’s client which was the VA Hospital in the St. Louis area. The Insight Global gal sent me all the information in an email along with the conference call number. So after preparing for hours on what questions I was going to ask the VA and doing research on them, I dialed in the number. It was the wrong number!!! I had to call the client on his cell phone and explain the situation. The Insight Global recruiter also told me I was going to be interviewing with the VA. This was not true. I was meeting with another associate of the clients and basically was asked all questions pertaining to IT. I knew then this was a big waste of my time for the past month of dealing with this company. Not only did they provide me with inaccurate information, they lied to me. I was then contacted a few weeks later from a recruiter out of the St. Louis office. I was reluctant to deal with them, but they assured me this was a “perfect fit” again. Of course I fell for their BS….again. After meeting with their client and interviewing, I was dealing again with two people, the recruiter and supervisor. A young guy and gal who talked so fast it was as if they were jacked up on speeders. I was told for a fact I had the job. Not only was I anticipating working for their client, but I turned down two other job offers because of what this young kid told me. I was emailing, calling and leaving messages trying to get a start date and finally after two weeks, the Insight Global recruiter called me and said there was some miscommunication. Yeah, there was. His miscommunication and flat out lies!!! He gave me the runaround and told me three different versions of why their client decided not to hire me and they were trying to find me something else. I told him DO NOT EVER, EVER contact me again and to take my name out of their database. This company and the young unprofessional kids they having working for them are a complete joke!! I have worked for many staffing agencies and this one is horrible to say the least! I have never met such a group of liars. Not only did I waste another month of my life with them, it was a total of two months I wasted thinking I had positions with them and I didn't. I turned down job offers because of their lies they told me. I am a single mother who has no income currently coming in and I am anxious to get back to work. I thought I had this job and I did not. To lie and do this to another person is inexcusable and unethical. After reading all the back comments about this company, I am grateful now I did not go work for these charlatans.
The Absolute Worst employment agency on the planet! If you are a professional job seeker it would be wise of you to avoid using Insight Global. They will call you endlessly with projects that don't exist, while repeatedly contacting and riling up your professional references in the process. The single assignment they placed me on, ended prematurely due to the lack of readiness and resources at the client site.
NEVER AGAIN!
I had a 3 month to hire contract .2 days before the contract was up. She came in
And renegotiated for 3 more months. I told her she broke the law. and she just laughed
At me. and said it’s a right to work state . so I hit Safeway and insight global with a letter of demand
And safeway kicked me off the job . and insight said I don’t have a case . I need to know if this has happened to you if so lets go after them.
Insight Global. Ha! What a joke. They employ entry level personnel calling themselves Lead Recruiter (s) when they are just as unemployed as the candidates they attempt to hire. If they do not meet their retention quota of candidates, then they are out of the company. You see, this type of pressure leaves these co-called lead to take extreme drastic measures regardless how unethical they may be. Ok, given this scenario below you will see the point in which we are trying to convey:
Scenario: This scenario will contain 3 variables: Customer A, Customer B, and the rental car agency. For now we will talk about the rental car agency versus Customer A.
Let's say Customer A needs a rental car because they have to get to work in about 2 hours. Therefore, they contact their local: rental car agency. The rental car agency locks in the customer the desired model and price before assigning customer A: the reservation number.
The rental car agency tells Customer A someone will be out to pick them up in 1 hour. Customer A waits for about 1 hour, knowing they have to be at work one hour from now. Anyway, Customer A receives a call back from the rental car agency 50 minutes before the agreed one hour pickup time- informing them the locked in rate and model is no longer available and was sold 20 minutes ago.
Customer A is furious and feels deceived because he was promised and guaranteed the rate, model, and held a reservation number. Therefore, customer A decides to not do business with the rental car agency after finding out they were not completely upfront and honest after due diligence in research finding the truth about the rental car agency. Apparently, the rental car company reserved the car for Customer A but they also had a Customer B who was willing to pay more for the request car reserved earlier for customer A. As a result, the rental car agency eliminated Customer A to obtain a bigger profit from Customer B.
You see. The same thing happens with staffing agencies such as Insight Global Solutions. They will have you sign a “Right to Represent” for either of them or their client-- sticking you in their Right to Represent queue. Simply, if they get in a candidate who will work for lesser salary or hourly wage, then they will submit “that candidate”: NOT YOU. At the end of the day, they win either way. You still remain in their Right to Represent queue” leaving you ineligible if another staffing agency comes along with a higher offer for the same position. According to so-called Lead Recruiter Brandon Smouse, if you even attempt to sign another Right to Represent form siding with another agency, you will be eliminated from that job opportunity by their client.
In conclusion, our word of advice to all candidates out there: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING FOR AT LEAST 4 days. Believe us when we say, SOMEONE ELSE WILL ALWAYS OFFER A BETTER DEAL via email or phone. The same rule applies to buying a car or home: ALWAYS SHOP AROUND. A majority of the jobs listed online are of public record. Insight Global Solutions know OF this and will try their very best to deter you from maximizing your income potential. STAY AWAY FROM INSIGHT GLOBAL ONLY IF… YOU WANT TO WANT TO REMAIN EMPLOYED AND NOT JOBLESS.
Stay away from Insight Global. THey contacted me a couple of weeks ago and set up a brief Skype interview that went ok but seemed very short. The girls I talked to on skype seemed as if they had just gotten out of college and I think they were more interested in guaging my age and appearence more than anything else. A couple of weeks later I was called by a third person from the same office who had no clue I had talked to the other two. She pretty much drilled me for about 45 minutes on a job she supposedly had. A few days later, one of the original two girls called and asked almost the identical questions.
This was late in the afternoon(around 7:00PM) and so I wondered what was up. The next morning I got a call from the girl that had originally called me about this job and told me they had decided to go with someone else. When I asked for any more specific reason she was unable to give one. I called once more later that day to get more information but my call was never returned. In the meantime I've gotten calls from at least 3 of their other offices nationwide. I really wonder if I was a victim of age discrimination here, as I had all the qualifications that the job called for. very disheartening and frustrating. Avoid these guys at all costs!!!