I don't know where to begin. In the interview you're waiting in their lobby with about 6 other people, and when you're done with your interview there's 6 new people in the lobby waiting to be interviewed. they run through the interviews like parts on an assembly line. They build up the job and tell you that as an entry level "account executive" you will be making about $36,000 a year. What they purposely fail to mention in the interview is that the job is strictly commission based and that you would need to make an impossible amount of sales to even come close to that kind of money. I'm sure they do this to get you to actually show up for your first day of "training".
Then comes your day of training, where you and the mass quantity of new hires for the day are split up into groups of 4 with a "manager" (i use quotes because the manager is in name only, they really manage nothing and take whatever commissions are made during your training, even if you're the one who actually closed the sale) and you head to their car to go to your designated selling area for the day. For me the red flags had not been on my radar yet since I was still excited about the thought of getting my career in marketing started and potentially making a lot of money as an entry level employee. We get to our first stop, some random industrial business park in south LA county, and I was ready to get going and see what we were gonna be doing. We get a quick prep on how to pitch what we're trying to sell, discounted rooms at some new Vegas hotel, and we find out that we are just going into suite after suite, building after building
So we begin our day, and the "manager" is leading us into business's offices and trying to sell something that no one wants while they're trying to work, and getting shot down by everyone we talk to. First red flag. I'm still trying to maintain a positive approach about this though because I still think this job is going to make me a good amount of money. During our morning run of glorified door to door sales, I realize that 90% of the businesses we walk in to have "no soliciting" signs on their doors. I ask if we shouldn't be going into these places, and the "manager" says that you just have to ignore them and that it's all about being persistent. Second red flag. But again, I'm still trying to figure out how this works so I can make big money.
We're about done with our morning location, but by now I'm starting to become skeptical about this job and how exactly anyone makes any money, after we make a total of 1 sale in 3 hours. which by the way nets you all of $10. There wasn't any prepping or reasoning behind who we were trying to sell to, which I couldn't understand. Of course no one is going to want to buy Vegas hotel rooms when you're trying to sell it to random people who aren't exactly in the "Vegas trip" demographic. But the manager just keeps emphasizing that "you have to get told no 90 times to get those 10 yesses", only we were nowhere near a 10% success rate.
We stop for lunch and the "manager" says she will explain to me how the pay scale works. And I'm thinking "ok, maybe this will shed some light on exactly how much money I can make here". She then explains that after the $300 one time base pay, everything else is all commission. At this point I had completely checked out mentally for the rest of the day After seeing how hard it was to walk around aimlessly for 3 hours trying to sell something people don't want to businesses who have signs saying they don't want what you're selling, and making a grand total of 1 sale, I realize what this job really is, a door-to-door sales job that was hyped up in order to get people to try it out. I'm just glad I realized this was a big scam before I quit my other job to try to do this one.
I'm sure many other people who got hooked by this could share the events i experienced almost detail for detail. If you come across them or their misleading job posting anywhere, ignore it. Classic example of if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
