Workbridge Associates

I’m a UX designer and heard from Workbridge from a friend. They set me up with job opportunities right away, and even scheduled to meet with me in person. They’re one of the best employment agencies I’ve ever worked with! As long as you’re honest with them and let them know what you’re looking for, they have some great matches for the role you’re looking for.

So I wrote an earlier review and Workbridge contacted Unilocal to remove my review. Very unprofessional.
I work in the same building as Workbridge. Knowing this, their recruiters will do an occasional search on LinkedIn to see if we have hired anyone recently. If so, they will do a cold phone call to our new employee to try to get them in for a chat. They’re fine harassing us during work via phone, but don’t have the balls to come to our office to chat (they’re just 8 floors up!).
They call during the work day with a blocked number. I don’t have my phone number listed publicly, which means that they use a recruiting database to get your personal information and contact you in ways you do not wish to be. They have cold called me several times and I have requested to not be contacted again. They don’t care. They continue to call.
Our Cofounder was trying to use Workbridge to fill a position. Their recruiters still actively sought to recruit from our company despite being a client. When confronted, they claimed they would never recruit from a client. We’ve been called many times since.
I have filed a complaint about them violating the Do Not Call list.

Rude and Un-​professional. NO !!

Job-​hunting can be difficult, especially for a recent college graduate like myself. After months of job hunting, I applied to a position on LinkedIn and the next day I received an email from Morgan K. about a potential interview. After talking to her on the phone, she made the interview happen, and a couple of days later I received a job offer from a company I’m really excited about. I accepted and I couldn’t be happier!
Morgan was very helpful through the whole process. I swear I called her at least 50 times and each time, she’d answer any questions I had and made sure I knew she was there for me through this whole thing. I would HIGHLY recommend her to anyone who needs assistance in the job hunt. She is positive, responsive, and overall amazing at her job. Thank you for helping me get a job just when I was about to give up! :)

Don’t use this agency unless you want to support phone harassment.
These people keep calling me trying to place designers at my company. I have told them repeatedly that we’re not hiring, I do not make those decisions, and to take me off their list. It’s been 2 years now and they’re still calling me about every 2 – 3 months. I fear these people will follow me to my grave.

Annoying company. Disrespectfully found my phone number somewhere and called my office number and asked for me, if attempt failed, they would call my personal cell number to hunt me down. They asked if the place I work at has any openings for engineers, seriously, I’m not HR or recruiters, call the right person, reach out in a right way!

Morgan, Christina, Kate, Crystal… everyone there is amazing. I previously worked with Morgan, and when it came time to make a change she was the first person I called. They had several great fits for me lined up and had interviews within just a few days that really fit my skill set, and my personality.
They really go the extra mile to make sure they are looking out for the candidate first, and always kept up with where I was in the process. This is my second time working with Morgan, and I know she’s if there ever is a need in the future I’ll be at Workbridge!

After leaving an IT job to tour with a band, consulting, freelancing and everything in between just wasn’t it doing it for me once life returned to normal. While I was applying to places on my own, it wasn’t going as fast as I’d like.
It’s true, most head hunting agencies have bad reputations, just ask me about the time Ryzen screwed up my contract with Apple… enter Workbridge Associates. They were aggressive, just not with me. They worked hard to find the best fitting job possible and had me sorted so fast it was kind of scary. They were nice, friendly and supportive, I couldn’t ask for anything more. Thanks Morgan!

I had the pleasure of working with Carey and team during my last job search. I have to say I am very impressed with Carey’s work. She was always bringing me leads and setting up phone screens. Carey brings a positive attitude to all conversations and is a consummate professional. If you are looking for a job in the San Francisco Bay Area, Carey and team are the ones to go to!

I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Haithem Ibrahim at Workbridge Associates. He matched me to a position that suits my abilities and interests. While working with Haithem, he maintained a level of professionalism and followed the proper procedures to find a position and dorm that ate a good fit for me. I strongly reccommend Haithem.

Let me begin with a disclaimer that I really, really hate headhunters and consider most of them to be parasitic bottom feeders. You see, a headhunter gets 25−40% of your first year’s salary as a commission, and for engineers in San Francisco, that’s a lot of money which encourages a lot of unethical and annoying sales techniques.
Over the past two years, in order to try and pitch me, headhunters have sent me gift baskets on holidays I don’t celebrate, shownn up at parties and concerts posted on facebook I had RSVPd to, called me up at my office, at 6am, at 9pm. Two have actually asked me out on a date on OKCupid (one admitted it before hand, one pitched me halfway through the date.
With that disclaimer out of the way, headhunters have to pass an incredibly high bar for me to want to give them a good review, or even return their emails.
Christina & Kate are fanastic and they really worked hard to place me into a position I wanted with a better compensation package than I would look for. I would say Workbridge is the best headhunter company in the bay area, because they didn’t pitch me hard, respected my communication boundaries, were very responsive, and were interesting enough I actually returned their calls and email. s

Workbridge has been very helpful during my last job hunt, especially Emily and Lauren who had put a lot of effort setting up many interviews, kept both companies and myself benefit from their excellent work.
They did pretty good pre-​screening too to make sure it’s company I’m interested in.
They are also very patient.
In the end, they got me an offer within 3 weeks.

They somehow found my personal cell number and started calling me constantly. Shamelessly told me they bought it «on the internet.»
Caller id just shows «Unknown». I hate this type of tactic and will never do business with them and spread the word to everyone. I will also be reporting them to the FTC.

I worked with Workbridge Associates during my latest job search. In general I found the folks at Workbridge to be wonderful and helpful. I want to give a special thanks to Alex Nikas. I worked with a number of recruiters and Alex was one of my favorites. He is very knowledgeable, easy going (in a positive way), easy to talk with and is very proactive about keeping me up to date with status. It is a pleasure working with Alex.

I had been looking for work in the bay area since my last contract ended in June this year. Thankfully my friend Richard Austin referred me to Workbridge, and wow I landed an amazing job that is a better fit than I could have imagined. Thank you so much to Christina for your assistance. Christina was spot on and professional and found a fit fast. I would totally work with these guys again!

I had a great experience working with Workbridge associates! Lauren and her team is fabulous. It was by accident that I responded to Lauren’s call and they asked me to come over to their office for a quick chat, so they could understand my expectations. Within the first week I had 4 interviews by the second week I had an offer but I wasn’t sure about it and they did not pressure me into taking it up but got me another interview where I was a good fit and I took up the offer!
They are great in finding you a perfect match for your skills! I’d recommend them any day

Called my personal cell, completely unsolicited trying to push candidates on me. After he realized I wasn’t interested, asked for colleagues numbers. Rude and unprofessional.

I’m a recent transplant to the Bay Area. I started my job search back July. I was contacted by Christina Gruettke from Workbridge. She worked tirelessly to get me as many phone and in-​person interviews as possible. This all culminated in my finally achieving a permanent position in my preferred location, and she got me 15% more than my requested salary! Christina has the experience and connections that rendered a greater benefit than I could have achieved on my own.
Workbridge made it happen for me.

Workbridge was overall a waste of time. The recruiters I worked with were very new and were not organized. These technical recruiters also aren’t well versed in the lingo and that poses a huge problem especially when they are the ones representing you to a potential client.
My biggest problem was that the recruiters were very nosy about the other places I interviewed at. They wanted to know the names of the companies, who I spoke to, and other details. They flat out lied when they said they needed the info so they wouldn’t accidentally pitch me to them-​but they have to ask you anyways if you were interested in a company before pitching you to them.
The experience is no less the same as working with any other third party recruiter, except these ones were more aggressive in trying to extract company info from me.

My family recently relocated to the bay area for my wife’s job. After applying directly with companies for a few months, I began to realize no one was checking their email. I didn’t really know anyone living here for job referrals so I reached out to several recruiting firms (none of them were Workbridge) in addition to posting my resume on Monster and Career Builder.
I like making an impact. I like making the «personal» touch (which is rare for IT) with coworkers so I prefer to work for SMB’s. I was having very little luck with the national recruiting firms and even turned down some work. I began to think my SMB strategy was all wrong and I would have to go work for some MegaCo. I was so happy when Crystal @ Workbridge reached out to me. She had found my resume online and thought my experience could be a good fit for a local company in SF.
While that company wasn’t a good fit, Crystal and Christina stayed in contact with me. I really felt like they understood what type of Company I was looking for and they had supreme confidence in me. Lo and behold the right company came along and Christina was with me every step of the way. She also stepped up to bat for me in the negotiations and got me a relocation package (that I didn’t even ask for). I am very happy with the end result and I’m very confident this was the right company for me. Thank you Christina, Crystal and Workbridge for connecting me!