Workplace reviews and discussion: 冠仕國際顧問有限公司

After passing the probationary period, you can postpone your start time to 9:30, but you still leave at 6:00 p.m., with a two-hour lunch break in between.

However, being late even once means one hour’s pay will be deducted.

The company is in the World Trade Center, very close and convenient to a metro exit. When there are exhibitions downstairs, you can take your ID card down to look around.

However, it seems that you have to work there for a period of time before you can get an ID card.

The requirements for doing low-level, high-volume recruitment and general executive search are both low and essentially the same. You have to make three offers to pass probation, which means everyone is assigned different positions with varying levels of difficulty. Moreover, these three offers cannot be counted as performance for calculating bonuses.

The bosses do not seem to be very familiar with legal requirements. Previously, they tried to ask a colleague who had not passed probation to pay back the cost of training and wanted to deduct it from their pay, which led to an argument.

The threshold for calculating bonuses is higher than at other companies, making bonuses very difficult to earn.

If you resign before bonuses are paid, the entire bonus is forfeited and will not be paid.

However, the bosses often cite several former colleagues as examples, saying that some people have still received bonuses.

The bosses prefer to manage things in great detail. They often bring over a small stool, sit beside our desks, and ask, “What did you do today? What happened with the cases?” They then go through things with us one by one, hoping that we will write files, make calls, and look for candidates in the way they prefer.

Once, at 9:30, they told a colleague, “You’ve already been at work for 30 minutes. What have you been doing?” This is how they manage people. They also ask colleagues to write files even when it is already 6:30 and the workday has ended.

I think the biggest drawback is that the bosses’ expertise is in the fund industry. They do not seem very knowledgeable or familiar with other industries, yet they still want to tell everyone how to do things. It also feels like they do not have their own cases and only watch everyone else work.