I am disappointed to see I was not helped with a job opportunity and was quickly brushed away due…read moreto a an incorrect information. Even after this was explained. I hope improvements are made.

I love my new job placement. My account manager, Myron has been very helpful and encouraging…read morethroughout the process.

Speaking from experience........this agency is one of the oldest and most trusted in the DMV. I…read moreused this group for many upper management positions and was NEVER disappointed. The attention to detail and matching great personalities with our "group" was outstanding. I would recommend Bart and Arthur Diamond to you without reservation.

It's been awhile but I'm back in the temp market so I looked up Graham, because I worked for them…read moreyears ago and they were wonderful. After reading the only review I've seen here, I was really disappointed, but then I saw that Amanda Krape was this person's rep. I realize that having pay delayed is a major issue and must have been very frustrating for this temp, however, Amanda Krape was also my rep and she was AMAZING. She kept me working, she was always in my corner, the pay situation was never any problem whatsoever. As a matter of fact, nothing was ever any problem whatsoever. Graham kept me working continually, everyone was always positive and helpful and supportive and that's why I'm looking through them again now that I'm interested in temping again. Don't let one person's rough experience keep you from considering Graham. I've worked through a number of temp agencies over the years - and Graham was the best of the lot, hands down.

My recruiter's name was Amanda Krape (hence the last name because she and the agency surely were…read more"crap-py" and incompetent). Graham, on my very first paycheck, deposited my paycheck into a closed account which I informed them of prior to payday. It took over a week battling over this issue, which they then, finally, made a payment to my correct account. However, this now meant TWO payments out there: 1) The wrong account. 2) The correct account. They explained they transitioned over to a new system and for some reason, the new system didnt recognize my new account. ????????? They asked me to contact my bank, get a letter stating my account had been closed, which was a hassle. I explained I would provide the correct paperwork, but that my going to the bank, meeting with them and traveling to their location was a lot in one day, but will do - they emailed to say my next pay would be withheld. They also disabled my Graham online account thereby making it impossible to view my hours (without the situation being resolved nor telling me). Talk about passive - aggressive #1. They failed to pay me on my FIRST pay day, by sending money to wrong/closed account. #2. After countless communications sent back and forth over a week, they finally wired me my money (does this sound like a stable company?). #3. Then, after realizing money was out there in cyberspace - withheld my paycheck, disabled my graham online account and I couldnt view anything - not even my hours from the previous week to calculate what I would earn nor the ability to see if my hours were verified and approved (it would have been my second paycheck). Yes, this company will be out of business within a year for bad business practice. To add insult to injury - I was charged a wire fee despite the fact it was THEIR mistake. To this day, they have yet to reimburse me!!

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 only give this place a 2 because the person I was working with was really nice. Here is my story:…read more I was living in North Carolina when I began conversing with a recruiter at NRI. I knew I was moving soon so I wanted to get everything done as quickly as possible so I could start work asap. I took a long series of test and scored really well. With experience in Property management as well as a paralegal I as assured they had plenty of opportunities for me. I submitted my resume before had and solidified an interview for the day after I arrived to DC. Needless to say, and very long story short, I was called twice a week with different positions and they never landed me a position not even once. I was working 2 days after I arrived with another agency in a law firm, so my resume was not an issue. They called me about positions every week for almost two months and I finally just told them I didn't want them to call me any more. For them to be a staffing agency, they are really not good at what they do at all. You can't be a staffing agency and never land anyone not even a part time position. Don't waste your time on all their test and lengthy interview processes, you're wasting your time!

I was contacted after applying for a position thru craigslist by a Kim Kilmer. She was very…read moreenthusiastic about my resume and set a date for an interview immediately because she said she had the best position for me and didn't want me to miss out! WHAT A LIE! I was told that I would only be there for the most an hour. After meeting with Kim for a few seconds I was placed on a computer to fill out a form, then told to complete a bunch of test. After I completed the test I interviewed with her for 30 minutes then three other agents. Things seemed to be going extremely well. I was given hope that in no time they would be able to find me a new position. All three of the interviewers made it seem as though I was a great fit for the position and informed me that I should get a suit before the weekend because I would be sent out for interviews the following week. I was walked out by Kim 2 to 3 hrs later and told to call and follow up the call with an email by the end of the week. This was a Wednesday. On Friday I called Ms. Kilmer and followed up with an email. No response. I waited until the following week and sent another email, no response. This is now the week before the holiday and sent a third email and got a auto response stating that she would be out of the office until Dec 27, 2012. Figuring that I would finally get a response after she returned I did not bother to send another email after Dec 27, 2012. When I returned from my holiday break and still no answer on Jan 2, 2013 I called once again and followed up with an email, and not to my surprise NO RESPONSE. I waited a week and decided that I would call her supervisor to see if maybe something was happening and she was let go or she quit, as this was extremely unprofessional to not respond to your emails and or phone calls. I spoke to a Sonya who was Kim's supervisor about the situation and she stated that it was extremely unprofessional and would look into the situation as it is not OK for her employees to ignore their clients. She looked up my resume and interview information and seemed a little confused herself as to why I was never called or sent on interviews. Especially since it had been almost two months since I was interviewed. She requested if she could follow up the next day with me to let me know of the outcome. Two days later I get a call from Ms. Kilmer informing me that as of right now I do not fit into any of the positions they have ( basically that they do not want to put me up for any positions) and that they would keep my resume on file and keep me in mind should a position become available. What happened to all the jobs I was being coached and informed about?? I guess I was no longer the best candidate? This is just bad business. As if this is not bad enough, I found a position thru a friend possibly working as a temp to hire for a government position. Being that it would be somewhat short notice they requested if they could speak to a hiring/temp agency that I had previously interviewed with. Thinking that everything went well on my interviews with NRI I called to speak to them about possibly helping me get this position and for them to speak to the new company looking to hire me. After being told that Ms. Kilmer would be out of the office until Monday and that I could email and leave her a voice message to request her assistance I explained that she does not return calls and that I was having an issue with her. Rudely the "acting" receptionist interrupts me and states that she is not suddenly the receptionist and is the accounting manger and is running into a meeting and cannot help me. But did you not ask my problem ten minutes ago and request that maybe you could help me?! I would not recommend this company to my enemy let alone any professionals. If this is how they work with people that have great skill sets and all they do is lie. Look for a professional agency that is actually looking to hire the correct people for the position. They they wonder why the same companies come back to them to fill the same positions?? Maybe its because you guys don't hire based on skills but maybe on skin color or race.

Randstad is a joke. The absolute most unprofessional "recruiters" from lack of communication to…read morecomplete miscommunication And lies. I was working with a female recruiter named Naomi. she rarely answers calls or emails or texts, sometimes she'll answer after 3or more days if at all. She completely lied to a job I interviewed for, she told them I wasn't interested!! And they were ready to hire me. She told me they were dragging their feet and weren't sure about creating this position. Then after 2months of nothing, She "found" another job same company different shift. Told me it was M-F. Then the night before my first day, she tells me it's m-f with alternating weekend!! Then when I show up for my first day, find out it's actually 6 days and then 4 days!!! The pay rate is crap. Especially when it was supposed to be a supervisory position. She tells me one thing, the company told me something completely different. Be warned I am not the only one. These recruiters are unorganized, can't get their facts straight, don't bother communicating, and don't seem to care if they screw up your life. Stay away from these people. 10 years ago they were good, but as of 2026 they are absolutely horrible!!

They are great here Joseph Rumph got me on an assignment right away and aways follows up on the…read moreprogress of new assignments. I highly recomment this office.

Horrible agency. They make you go through all of this paperwork and do a very brief interview to…read moregive you some unskilled labor job way out in Jessup or Landover Maryland. If you don't have your own transportation you will have to use their bus services which cost $40 a week and that will come out of your pay. And the jobs at the have about $11.50 an hour. Slavery at it's finest. Don't waste your time with this place!

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I had high hopes for WorkSource Montgomery, but my experience highlights serious gaps in how…read morecomplex cases are handled. I waited close to a year just to be assigned a job coach and career advisor, even though I met all program requirements and was placed on a priority hiring list. Once assigned, both individuals were professional, responsive, and genuinely seemed to understand the urgency of my situation. I am a qualified healthcare professional with an active job offer, but I am currently facing major barriers, including lack of transportation and housing instability. Both my job coach and career advisor agreed that my case required escalation and stated they would involve higher-level leadership, including a supervisor and potentially a county-level contact. However, within a week of those conversations: Both were suddenly unassigned from my case A scheduled meeting with a supervisor never happened I received an email stating I would be reassigned, with no explanation or transition Since then, I've been left without continuity or meaningful support, effectively restarting the process after already waiting a year. What's most concerning is that the breakdown didn't happen at the frontline level--the staff I worked with were helpful and engaged. The issue appears to be a lack of follow-through and accountability when cases require escalation beyond basic services. For individuals with simple job placement needs, this program may work well. But for those facing real barriers to employment, the system does not appear equipped to provide the level of support necessary to achieve stability. I hope leadership takes a closer look at how cases like mine are handled, because the current process can leave people in prolonged limbo despite doing everything required on their end.