Job: Employment, Recruitment, or Placement Specialist / Recruiter (United States)

If you are thinking of joining a not for profit organization in a career change, know one thing. You will not be paid what you feel you are worth unless you land in an executive level job. Those types are generally OVER paid. But, there are a lot of wonderful perks/benefits. Shorter work week (generally 35 hours full time) lots of paid time off and good medical benefits.

The money stinks but the work is rewarding and the benefits can't be beat!

I don't believe I am being paid fairly, when a younger lady of a different nationality is assigned a position above my current position and she only has a high school diploma; much less knowledge of what's required to perform the job, fewer years of experience, inability to organize, plan and successfully implement plans that will develop clients. Ther are other duties I perform that I'm not paid for. There is much more than bias in the workplace and I should be paid a minimum of $42,000 a year.

too much work and no play = not good

A few weeks ago I was hired by a staffing company as a recruiter. I had previous experience at another company and was looking for a company that had more advancement. Which I thought I had found. I had been their approx. 3 weeks. On a weekend my son was in an accident and we had to take him to the emergency room. Unfortunatly he was admitted on a Sunday night around 11:30pm. I called my boss's cell phone and left a message re: the situation and that I would not be in the next morning but would call her in the morning. I was not to report to work until the next morning at 8:00am. At 6:45am that morning I called my boss again letting her know about my 4 year old son and we were at the hospital and I know I would not be back to work for a couple of days but would keep her posted once we knew more info on when they would release him. She said to just keep her updated and take care of him. The next morning (Tues) I called her and said that they did decide to release him that day which was Tues. and I would be back to work the next day. I only missed 2 days of work Mon and Tues. She advised me not to report back to work because of my absenteeism. Those were the only two days I had missed. I had been working about 12 hours a day since I had started 3 weeks prior and not taking any type of break in between since we were so busy. I was never late to work, ALWAYS on time arriving atleast 10-15 minutes early every day. She said she needed someone who would be there everyday. But I could not help my son was in the hospital. What was I suppose to do? Leave a scared 4 year at the hospital and go to work? Completly insane. Never work for Personnel Management Inc.