Accountemps

Holly Carson was able to quickly get my resume in front of a internet video promotion high-​growth start-​up with over $ 1M in revenue, mutiple offices in multiple countries. The assignment was highly challenging in a good way. A perfect match of skill and opportunity. Accountemps assignments are a great way to polish your skills. When it’s a perfect fit –the customer, agency and contract accountant– can all achieve the outcome they are looking for.
Holly Carson maintains the proper amount of communication and speaks with integrity.

Ian at Accountemps was very helpful in helping me get placed in SF. He was extremely persuasive in making me grab opportunities out there and did a great job following up regularly on how I was liking my contract job. I would definitely recommend him for helping you find suitable opportunities. He places more importance on the prospects of a job rather than the pay which was very interesting coming from a recruiter!

I have talked to many people at AccountTemps, but Frances has always been my main contact. She is great! Within my first week of working with them, I had 4 or 5 interviews, and I got a job after two weeks. Since finishing the first job, I have worked another already and have had multiple opportunities offered to me. They are quick and friendly, and great if you aren’t sure exactly what you want to do or what is out there. Would recommend.

Everyone I met was so helpful. I got many interviews within a couple days. The next week I was hired in San Francisco. The paperwork was all easy to follow and sign.

Frances, Philip & Sean are definitely great to work with. They got me a job in a couple of days! They are diligent and very professional.
Frances contacted me as soon as my contract assignment ended and asked me if I’m looking for another job… I am, but my husband and I decided to move out of the SF Bay Area so I have been in touch with an out of area Robert Half-​Accountemps branch office who’s now working on getting me my next assignment.
I would highly recommend this team and Accountemps to job seekers who are looking for quality employment in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are a great resource!

I thought of working at SF (I’m from the South Bay) and wanted to keep my options open. So i thought of using Accounttemps for help. I learned a lot about the company… the bad things about them. As far as I remember, I worked with Phil and few others.
1. They don’t fulfill your requests because the only thing they care about is $. They give you no good positions so that they can get there $. When you don’t feel comfortable or reject the position, they get upset because they don’t get their $. They have no reason to get upset. Example: Recruiter told me of a 1 week opportunity in SF (remember I’m in the South Bay). Apparently I got the opportunity without interviewing and I told recruiter (Not going to say names) I don’t feel comfortable. He then got very mad. If this was a temp to perm hire or long term temp job, then yes he has a right to be mad if i reject it.
2. Like a lot of branches, they do take most of $ if you get the position.
3. As previous reviewers mentioned, they leave you hanging if you don’t get interview offer.
The next time they called me, I told them I don’t want a working relationship with them. I would stay away from them.

Frances and Phil at Accountemps got me a job with a great company in San Francisco. They worked hard to get me this job. They are very respectful and professional.
I really wish them the best and will never forget how hard they worked during the last week to get me this job.
Million Thanks
Amro Zidan

This is a great place to start the search in the Bay Area. Worked with Doran and I had a positive experience working with them overall. They have a bunch of good startup clients. A definitive place to drop in during the search process.

Very involved, welcoming, and as personal as possible given the disciplines they focus on. The only negative experience was with direct hire (full salaried 2-​year positions): I felt for the first and only time with Accountemps like I was a non-​person, like my resume (let alone any in person meeting or history with Accountemps) wasn’t considered at all except for maybe some bullet points or key words or some alarm that went off to them to indicate that I might be both barely qualified and perhaps desperate enough to consider this opportunity.
I felt very dehumanized and completely unseen and very much objectified. It was a shock, clearly, given the wonderful experiences I had before, specifically with the SF and Easy Bay temp offices. It could also have been the specific person I dealt with.

The people at Accountemps are like used car salespeople.
1. They seem eager to meet you initially, but they never bother to respond to emails/​calls after the initial meeting. You won’t hear from them unless they think they can put you on a job.
2. If they submit your resume to a client for job, and you don’t get invited to interview, the recruiters won’t even bother to update you — they would just leave you hanging.
3. The recruiters are pretty stupid. Some of them have had no actual work experience in accounting or finance. Listening to them trying to describe a job assignment is a joke; most of them barely understand what the jobs are.
4. Their pay rates are ridiculously low; their mark-​up to the clients are so high, which forces them to pay their workers low rates.
I would stay far away from this company.

I like working for Accountemps! They have been very good in assigning me to clients where my skills and knowledge are matched according to the business needs. I give my very best to take on the work challenges and perform well, and learn as much as I can about the business processes to be highly efficient, this way I can continue getting good assignments. My experience with Philip Phoumsavath is above and beyond my expectation. He takes care of my needs so I can perform well on the job. I think it’s very important to have a good partnership with the Staffing Manager so I can better serve our clients. Thank you, Philip!

I first used Accountemps in 2012 after I had finished the CPA exams and moved to California. I got a couple of assignments at start-​ups which was pretty cool, and eventually a different agency got me a permanent position. Fast forward to 2015, I had taken a hiatus from accounting and had been traveling, volunteering, and organic farming for a little over a year. When employed and in school, I was getting jealous of everyone traveling the world rather than heading straight to more school or employment so I decided to get this out of the way while I’m still young.
Accountemps had me go to a few lengthy interviews for temp positions that did not come to fruition for different reasons such as the company changed their mind or decided to go in a different direction for the position (or maybe I just suck?). It ‘s a bummer because I spent a lot of time preparing, commuting, and interviewing for all these. I’m assuming those were the real reasons that I was told. If not, I’d appreciate some real feedback so I can fix what I’m doing wrong and improve. Despite that, Phil has been really cool and friendly. Holly is nice, too.
I was talking to Sean P. about my salary requirements because I have basically 2 years of experience and at the very least well over a year of extremely solid general accounting experience. He told me my range was a bit high, but I was going by Robert Half’s salary guide for 2015 for San Francisco + I have a masters degree. I don’t even consider the fact that I have passed all 4 parts of the CPA exam because I am missing my hours. Not only that, I was staying on the conservative side.
Anyway, I am currently on an assignment. It was new and fun at first. I don’t know if I want to stay even though it would be a secure, stable job with great benefits, but I’m crazy so I’m not just trying to get any job. I’m trying to find a position that aligns with my values and goals.
I would say my experience has been pretty good. We will see how this continues. Hopefully, this will become excellent.

I had a great experience with Accountemps. I went to them as a recent accounting grad having trouble finding my first real job. My recruiter Phil met with me Tuesday and had me working full-​time starting Wednesday morning. On top of that, the initially 3 month assignment turned into a full-​time job.
I would highly recommend working with Phil and Accountemps, and will gladly do so again if the need arises. Just remember that it is a temp agency, and go in with realistic expectations.

My recent experience with Sean Pacheco and Holly at Accountemps was great! They got me out working on a 6 month assignment pretty quickly — shortly after finishing my tests. Sean was easy going, flexible during the entire 6 months and made my first temp experience very rewarding. Because of this positive experience, I was able to spend some quality time with my two kids in between assignments.

Robert Half has exceeded my expectations for a temping agency. As a college student, I try to find work whenever I am on breaks from school. Out of the many people I have worked with, Mark has been a great help in jump starting my career. Not only does he find jobs immediately, he finds ones that are suited for my major. In the past year, I have worked with numerous agencies that will be great references on my resume. It has been a wonderful experience working for Robert half and I can vouch for their excellent staff, who looks after everyone as their own.

Robert Half was a great resource for me. I had about a year of accounting experience before having to look for a new job. I mostly worked with Sean Pacheco but also spoke to Hollie and Alex for an assignment or 2.
Sean was a great person to work with, good communicator. I was able to be honest and speak my mind and Sean was great to work with. I would give him 5 stars if this review was just about him.
Unfortunately Accountemps is a national (maybe even global?) company and that means that they are all about profits. Two of the companies I worked for told me that they would hire me, but they didn’t have the budget to pay the buyout fee. Also, work on your negotiating skills. Some of their clients are multi-​million dollar companies, and others are sub 10 million. You can probably negotiate up to a dollar or two higher if the client is larger. I didn’t really bother to negotiate because I just wanted to work and pay my rent.
Overall, Accountemps started me off on short projects. As I worked to earn trust and kept up my communication, Sean started giving me longer jobs while I continued my job search. They were great with letting me go to interview, I just had to give a couple days notice.
I would definitely use them again if I need to (but lets hope I don’t need to anytime soon).

I have nothing but good things to say about Accountemps.
Here’s my timeline:
Day 1. I applied for jobs on the Accountemps website.
Day 2. I received a call from Doran from Accountemps to chat a bit about my experience and ended up scheduling an interview with Accountemps for the next day.
Day 3. Filled out some forms on site and had a quick interview with Doran and he introduced me to one of the staffing managers, Phil. Phil was able to find an opportunity for me that same day and helped me schedule an interview for the next day.
Day 4. On site interview in the morning and later that day, I was told that I have received the assignment and will be starting the following week.
Obviously the experience will be different for everyone, but I had the pleasure of working with Doran and Phil, both of whom went above and beyond for me. I was able to get in touch with both of them whenever I had questions. I am someone with very little experience, not even fresh out of college because I took a year off doing little to add to my resume. I had my doubts going in, but Accountemps been a great experience and so far it has been working out for me.

After submitting my resume and completing my profile online, they called maybe a day or two later and scheduled an interview. The interview was concise and efficient. My interviewer was Alex, and he was very easy to work with. He introduced me to his team, and he told me to be ready to work within a few days.
I received a 6 month assignment to a very strong company that eventually hired me full-​time.
It was a great experience. I think the key is to articulate exactly what you are looking for, and they will try to accommodate that. Sean and his team are awesome to work with.
TL;DR: 10÷10… would go again.

They helped me get a temp job when I first got to SF which really helped while I was looking for my real gig. I met a great company through temping and got offered a full time position offer.
The downside of Robert Half is just the wage they give you. They should focus more on the employee side instead of their margins.
Overall its a useful source if you need a quick job no strings attached.

I had long written Accountemps off my list as this agency has proven to be inept & unprofessional per my dealings & experience with them in the past. After realizing their incompetence soon after, I emailed the agent back telling her to remove my name from their database collection of resumes. So any other bad reviews must have merits. Don’t waste time with them & I suggest do your own direct search instead… at least you won’t have to worry about being «undercut» so they can take their «cut.»