I should have composed a review late November when I was let go or December 2024…read more Elite Personnel VP contact NHG and manager EH contacted me about a Contract Travel Accounting position for a large union International Brotherhood Teamsters IBT near the Capitol downtown DC. It was a temp to hire staffing assignment and looking to start Monday August 12. Interestingly, I just relocated from NYC July 31, 2024. I had to work 500 hours to become permanent. I already interviewed three other staffing recruiters and a Silver Spring MD direct hire HR employee which they were stalling with pending next steps in the interview process so I prioritized my time and took IBT staffing agency to survive. Although the pay rate was $29 hour and it was non-negotiable per NHG so I had no choice. She "lowballed" me since my salary was $65,000 from my previous NYC local employment for nearly seven years. My duties include verifying and auditing employee travel expense reports and applying LM2 schedule for accurate coding using SAP Concur software and processing travel-related vouchers on Microsoft Dynamics XL formerly Solomon Edwards software. I was grateful to learn two new software SAP Concur and Microsoft Dynamics. I loved data entry processing travel related vouchers since it keeps me busier than verifying expense reports which caused me to doze off occasionally. Travel Accounting manager TB I thought I worked well with signed my weekly timesheets mostly. This racist Travel Accounting supervisor JF was and is arrogant and indifferent toward temp employee as a Black male and normally out of the office a lot leaving less work for me to do. JF and I were not on the best terms. The other four other Travel Accounting employees trained me a certain way to verify and audit expense reports. I explained to him during two performance evaluations September 17 and November 1 for the reason for my swift delivery and attempted to avoid careless errors and I acknowledged my breakdown to him and to TB. JF applauded my data entry and admin related work with limited and no errors. I expressed oftentimes sitting at my desk unproductive and idle for a long time whether I am working slow or fast. He and TB admitted about some down times which expense reports aren't coming regularly. Staffing agency RHI sent a black woman temp to handle back logs for both Vietnamese permanent employees out of the office in late October. She and I share the same birthday, and she has extensive accounting background including travel accounting experience from a large NW DC university. JF asked me to train her on processing travel expense vouchers and she acted pompous and kept interrupting me in the process. She asked some of the questions repeatedly and cosplaying from making careless mistakes and she did tasks her. She implied JF and another white female temp employee explained the best way opposed to mine so I just ceased training her and talking to her. Their ice was and always colder than mine. I refused to work in a spiritual and gender warfare toxic environment feeling disrespected by her and the co-workers. I am beginning to feel uneasy working with the temp and how she tried to undermine and sabotage me along with JF especially with my 500 staffing assignments are set to expire November 25. I addressed my concerns to TB. Finally, NHG called to inform me Wednesday November 27 to confirm my last day since the Accounting Manager TB and/or JF informed her I was "frustrated" with the lack of consistent and regular work and my refusal to accept permanent offer since they pay once a month according to TB and other employees. Also, I refused to work in a toxic environment feeling disrespected by HR, cafeteria staff, "raccoons" security, and many union employees.

5 Stars all around!! Many thanks to Nicole and Patrick for their help along the way. I've used…read moreElite Personnel twice... once after graduating undergrad and again last year when I was looking to get back into the workforce and both times have been a blessing. Straight out of undergrad, they were able to place me on a temporary assignment that lasted for about 2 months, and then when that ended, I was placed in a more long-term admin front office role. When nothing else worked to put my degree to use, I could count on Elite to get placed somewhere, and luckily for me, they seem to have great connections all throughout the DMV so I didn't have to wait too long before I would hear back with a potential opportunity. If you're still in the search for a new temp agency, I definitely recommend Elite be your next (and last) stop ;)

I spent a most of my career in one job, until one day I decided it was time for a change. I spent…read morea lot of time tuning my resume and going on various job interviews that became time consuming. It was good practice overall, but very stressful. I was then referred to Alex and Josh at Workbridge where they assisted me in my job hunt. I continued applying to jobs personally, but was also supplemented with the positions they presented. Ultimately, I took a job presented to me by Workbridge which gave me a bump in my salary. Commute could be better, but we live in the DC area. Yay Metro!

I had the pleasure work with Workbridge for my recent job search. They are an awesome group to work…read morewith. I was working with a few of their associates for multiple opportunities and have high regard for each one for them. They have been always accessible for any and all questions I had during the process. Dustin was always on top of things and got me answers right away. I eventually accepted one of the offers initiated by Workbridge and that was in part of my relationship with the folks here. They even checked on me on my first day, just to make sure I was settling in okay. I would most certainly work with them in the future :)

Great experience!…read more They let me know in my pre-screen phone call who the client was and the name of their operations manager. The day before the interview they called to give me a pep talk and interview advice. Throughout the placement period I was in constant contact with my recruiter. I've never temped with another agency but based on other reviews I've read on Yelp, I would be cautious if the recruitment agency doesn't tell you who their client is or is terrible with communicating.

Great people who really care about you…read more They know your name when you call. They make sure that any problems are quickly resolved. They like you. Just really good people who do a really good job.

I just want to say that Wendy and her staff do an amazing job with placing their temps into…read morepositions that cultivate success. My wife recommended Help Unlimited to me as they were able to help her gain employment in the past. I had been looking for employment for a few months on my own before I enlisted Help Unlimited's expertise and eventually they were able to place me at an organization as the acting Database Manager. Although the position was not considered temp to hire initially, I was hired as a full fledged employee after two months. Patience is half of the battle when it comes to looking for employment but letting Wendy and her team work their magic is well worth the wait! Thanks again Help Unlimited! Within my family, you are batting 1.000!

The firm overall is not bad, but houses absolutely one if the worst recruiters in the history of…read morerecruiting. I had rhetorical unfortunate experience of coming across a recruiter by the name of Geoffrey Quick.. Truly a most arrogant and rude individual. You would think he owned the company. I have often wondered what keeps this type of ignorant person at a place like this but it is nothing short of the good ol boy network. Absolutely a displeasure ever coming across this guy.

I received a message via LinkedIn from one of the 11th Hour recruiters, Michael, for a new position…read moreat the company. At first, I was hesitant to reply to his message, I thought it was not for real. After a few days, I replied to his email to know more about the position. He was very responsive and nice. The hiring process was fast and they kept me updated. I recommended 11th Hour to my friends and neighbors as I've learned through their website's career portal for other jobs in the areas of Finance and Accounting.