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Actalent

Working at Actalent – Assisting Project Engineer (New York, NY)**  
*2024–2025*
🧳 Typical Day at Work  
A typical day at Actalent was structured and fast-paced, with a strong emphasis on collaborative execution. I’d start by reviewing updated schedules, interfacing with engineering teams, and supporting documentation tasks. Stand-up meetings and status check-ins were common, and I often liaised between contractors and designers to ensure progress aligned with project milestones.
📘 What I Learned  
Actalent’s compliance-first approach taught me how to maintain documentation accuracy, interpret technical drawings, and communicate across departments. I gained hands-on experience in vendor coordination, regulatory alignment, and project lifecycle support, especially within healthcare and infrastructure-related contexts.
👔 Management Style  
Management at Actalent followed a performance-driven and coaching-based model. Project leads were accessible, feedback-oriented, and supportive of professional development. The structure promoted accountability, with regular goal reviews and constructive one-on-ones.
🌱 Workplace Culture  
The culture was inclusive and teamwork-focused, emphasizing ethical integrity, safety practices, and transparency. Cross-functional collaboration was not just encouraged—it was embedded into daily routines, with Actalent’s policies creating a foundation for clear expectations and aligned objectives.
🧱 Hardest Part of the Job  
Navigating multi-stakeholder priorities while maintaining documentation quality under tight deadlines was challenging. Balancing engineering precision with project coordination required high attention to detail and frequent pivoting between tasks.
🥇 Most Enjoyable Part of the Job  
The most rewarding aspect was seeing coordinated efforts translate into tangible project milestones. Working with diverse professionals across the construction and healthcare sectors offered valuable perspective and helped me develop stakeholder rapport skills that will carry forward into future roles.



Stay away from Actalent if you are trying to dip your toes into the world of account management and recruiting. You will go through an arduous few weeks of pointless tasks disguised as training to get you ready to become a salaried employee. You will start off at an unlivable wage with the expectations to be at work for over 10-11 hours a day. 

Account managers are nearly impossible to get ahold of and you are responsible for all the communication regarding that otherwise you’ll be reprimanded by leads in the daily morning meetings. The days are filled with a ridiculous number of meetings and the metrics in measure are not practical. You could have a solid week of submissions to different opportunities but if you miss one phone screening or reference check then you’re basically at the bottom. 

There is definitely a very negative vibe within the Houston team that accentuates the general intrusive nature and conceited behaviors from account managers and team leads. This place is not a family. This place is a ruse for the top to keep succeeding and the bottom to keep drowning because of the strongest performance based expectations. 

I would love to point out the people I worked with but as this is all about anonymity I’ll leave any future job seekers with one piece of advice: run. 

Please don’t waste your energy coming into a toxic workplace where they treat you less than under the guise of being constructive and helpful. You will hear 10 people tell you the same piece of advice but you have to sit quietly and take it as they’re better and more knowledgeable than you. Don’t lose your dignity for the chance of a job you’ll most likely leave within a matter of a few months. 


Advice to management: treat your employees like people and not a statistic. 


The goals are completely unrealistic to the point only about 1 person in the entire district actually achieves them with occasional 1-2 extra people, keep in mind that's every single recruiter they have from 4-5 different major metropolitan cities. You're set up to fail from the start. 

   On top of that if you want to get promoted your expected to do a portion of the new job while still maintaining your old one that nobody can even accomplish, without the extra work.

   When asked for advice you're told to basically just figure it out. They have open communication policy that were all expected to coach each other, but then you'll get destroyed from management if you do it to them, so it's damned if you do or don't. 

   HEAVY politics if you can get cool with the right people you'll last if not they'll force you out. Be prepared to drink alcohol all the time with them after work, and if you don't drink they'll make you feel excluded.

   This company is so focused on ESG, they sacrifice their good employees for not thinking like them or being a certain demographic. If you're a conservative expect all your views to be censored, and all opposing views to be highlighted. 

   They make diversity promotions that make no sense either, obviously under qualified person will get the promotion because they fit the demographic they're looking for.

   Also I watched the management never actually write up or warn anyone what they needed to change before they got fired.... They just fired them out of no where, super unprofessional.

   I did learn a lot about recruiting, time management, and good business practices, but overall was a terrible experience and would never work there again. I was there for a year.

They train you up pretty quickly and you hit the ground running within a matter of weeks pretty much. You learn a lot of valuable skills like candidate sourcing, engagement, and consulting. They really value people who are strong communicators and, even if you don't have a background in recruiting, they are willing to train and work with you. You have a supportive team to guide, mentor, and encourage you. Incredibly nice and approachable people. You also get a lot of valuable and transferrable skills. 

That said, this job is not for the faint of heart. This is a very "hustle and grind" culture. You are expected to be in the office 7:30 - 5:00pm 4 - 5 days a week with little flexibility for hybrid or remote work and sometimes you are expected to work outside those hours. Most of the money you make with Actalent will be with commissions on your spread (which is very low when you're first building it), so you will have to deal with a mediocre base pay, at least for a little while. The downside to this is that, if this is your first recruiting job, the success becomes much longer and harder to realize, and you don't see a lot of the fruits of your labor, even though you're putting in all those hours. This little return combined with the almost-zero work life balance and potentially long commutes (for a lot of folks, though not all) makes a perfect recipe for burnout.

I recommend Actalent for somebody who wants to get their foot in the door in the recruiting/HR world, as long as you can handle the long hours and the grind; you could potentially make a lot in commissions if you work there long enough. But if you're looking for a competitive work-life balance and steady income, this might not be right for you.

Actalent is a wonderful place to work if you are comfortable working long hours, 50 hours per week. This is a metrics based position where they evaluate your performance on the amount of calls you make, and the amount of business you bring to the finish line. Personally, I fit extremely well in this environment. There is a lot of mentorship and professional development, and they are willing to train you if you are green And new to the industry. There is quite a bit of upward potential for growth. If you want to get promoted into an account management role, a recruiter, lead role, a trainer, or a large account manager. 
The best thing about working here is the culture. Everyone is extremely hard-working and professional during the day, but not afraid to go out for happy hour and celebrate wins with a high energy mentality. 
The company treats its employees very well. There is uncapped commissions, this is a privately held organization that continues to give back additional bonuses to its performers, and it is realistic for you to be able to hit your goals. If you put in a strong work ethic, and you aren’t afraid to put an extra hours when there are projects that come on.  They offer pretty good vacation and holiday pay, starting off about 26 days per year in total. However, their healthcare coverage is not very good.

If you are not somebody who does well in a high-pressure environment, this will not be the place for you. However, if you are someone who does well in an environment that compensates you for your effort, you might thrive at this company!

Management has just gone bonkers. The review about moving to AEP is true. The atmosphere is very stressful and very toxic, and it's because of management. When I first started it was great - wonderful atmosphere, great folks, best job ever. But management changed and it went downhill very quickly. New manager yells, calls you a liar, fires people to hire in his friends. Recently, a coworker was written up for staying home when she had the flu. Management plays favorites and has different rules for different groups. They can't remember what they ordered you to do last week, and may write you up this week for doing what they told you to do.  Very very stressful situation, and will not changes until management changes. 

The employees that were hired under the old management are wonderful. They are friendly, kind, helpful and very knowledgeable. However, when EASi started hiring just to fill seats, the quality of staff went down considerably, leaving those that know their jobs to clean up the mess and catch the blame.

Hardest part of the job is staying out of the unnecessary office politics. New management has created an atmosphere of drama, secrecy and lies. It is nearly impossible to dodge it all, even if you stay at your desk and never talk to people.

The best part is the quality of the more established employees. They are the best. Unfortunately, many of them have left or are looking - because the rest of the nonsense is just too stressful and unnecessary.

Working for Actalent has been difficult. The individual employees have a positive attitude and seem willing to help, but when it comes down to it all they care about it the money they get from contracting you in. The positions are compensated fairly. However, they will lie to you about the job description to get you into a position, and will manipulate you against other potential employees. 
The position they offered me was absolutely not as described in actuality. It put a bad taste in my mouth to know that they lied to get me into a job that didn't fit what I was best qualified for.  When discussing the recruiting process with another new hire, I found out we had both requested the same start date, but Actalent claimed they accidentally made our start date weeks earlier. We were then told we wouldn't get the position if we didn't train together, and the other employee had already agreed to starting on the earlier date, so we would have to start ASAP if we wanted the position. To me, it seems like Actalent had manipulated us against each other to get us to start the job earlier.
Unfortunately, once Actalent got me into the position, they left me high and dry to fend for myself. It would take days to get an email back from them, and they've made it difficult to get reimbursed for expenses.
If you only care about the pay and not about the actual position you're getting hired for, Actalent should be a fine fit for you. Otherwise, I would recommend looking elsewhere.

48/72 hour shifts are normal for Full timers so you will wind up being swamped with more work time than off time. Literally, more than half of your life will be spent at work for just 50 cents more than minimum wage going out of your way for everyone whilst working yourself to death.  Hospitals will wait until shift change at midnight or later to send long distance transfers out, so if you aren't up for 160 mile round trips in the middle of the night running on zero sleep, this isn't for you. As it isn't for me or anyone else.  The vast majority of these transfers are non-emergent in nature and could wait until crews have gotten a modicum of sleep.  How most EMS personel are treated and what they are paid is an absolute joke.  EASI isn't the worst company to work for as far as EMS but if you value yourself and other EMS professionals stay out of this field until conditions have improved, it's an absolute struggle every day and night in this profession. You will truly be run ragged for essentially minimum wage.  

For the do-gooders: I absolutely enjoy helping people but if we're being honest, 99% of our calls are people looking for a shuttle service or drugs.  There are other ways to help humanity.  I'm hoping I've helped you with my insight into this field and should you choose to pursue it, I hope the best for you as I do for us all. Things just need to change, drastically.....

Most of the day is spent on the phone or computer.  As an AM you are responsible for finding new business and taking it through fulfillment, compliance, and management.  A decent percentage of the week is also expected to be used for onsite meetings.

This job, unfortunately, requires a great deal of luck.  In order to be successful it's important to enter the sales role with the right market or you'll be stuck chasing business you are not going to get.  You can also "inherit" a winning territory that someone else has already built.  If you don't have either of those things, odds are you're not going to have a long career at Actalent.

Management was next to useless for me.  I know that others have much better experiences but my direct manager (Practice Lead) did nothing to try and mentor/guide me.  There was very little interest in my business or making me a better seller.  My director was essentially the same - very little effort in showing me how to make things happen.  I had biweekly meetings with those individuals where we would go through my book of business but it was entirely surface level and I felt no interest from them in going deeper.

The exec level is honestly not much better.  During my time at Actalent, they made numerous changes that negatively impacted their producers and their business overall but blamed everything on the lower level people.

I was initially very excited about this job.  Autonomous vehicles!  Cutting edge technology!  A "tech company" environment!  Yet at the end of the day, you're not working for the cutting edge tech company.  You're working for the contractor, and there's a huge difference. 

The benefits are pretty poor, as usual with a contractor.  Health insurance is a choice between an inexpensive plan that covers almost nothing, and an expensive plan with a high deductible.  Opt for the HSA...you'll need it.  

The pay is okay and the job is easy, but like any contractor work, PTO and sick time are like highly enriched uranium.  Rare and hard to get without a long and arduous process.

Advancement?  Opportunity?  Good luck with that.  When I was interviewed, I asked my recruiter what the time frame/process was to get hired on by the actual company, and you'd have thought I asked them to explain Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.  You're being hired to do a job, they want to keep you on the contractor payroll, because if you get hired on by the actual company, they'd have to fill your job, and they don't want to encourage that.

Oh, and one more thing...and something Actalent takes pains to avoid telling you:  You're not being hired to do the job they're describing, at least in Phoenix.  Once your training is done, your job will be delivering groceries.  Delivering groceries in an autonomous vehicle?  Yes, but you're still a delivery boy.  Or girl.

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