If you are looking for a job in marketing, sports marketing, pr, customer service, advertising, or just about anything in the kansas city area, you are guranteed to come across TONS of job postings for LE Concepts. I was a recent grad from KU with a degree in marketing and looking for my first job right out of school. I saw their posting online and thought it sounded cool: *Entry Level in New KC Sports Marketing Firm! *
So I sent in my resume. I was still very skeptical because the posting did not. Less than 24 hours later I recieved an e-mail from a woman named Samantha Shoemaker saying I had been selected for a "one-on-one" preliminary interview. I had gotten a few e-mails that sounded EXACTLY like that one before so I decided to do some more research on the company and then respond to it. Later that day, I got a call from another woman named Sierra White telling me I had been selected for an interview with LE Concepts. I talked to her for a while on the phone, and she couldn't really tell me ANYTHING about the position. I asked her what I'd be doing on a day to day basis. She told me it would be covered in a second interview. I asked her what the pay range was. She told me it would be covered in a second interview. I asked her to just give me a job description and she said "we have several positions available ranging from promotional sales, to customer service, to pr, to marketing." She couldn't even tell me what position I was interviewing for. So I finally told her I'd have to think about it and call her back. I figured I'd have the number on caller ID but when I looked at it said it was a blocked number... Weird huh? So she gave me the office number. I talked it over with my parents and they said to give it shot. I really had nothing to lose. So I called the number she gave me and asked for Sierra. The woman who answered said she was out of the office but wondered if she could help me. I told her no and left a message. After trying back 2 or 3 times over a couple of days, the woman who answered the phone told me that Sierra actually works out of their Denver office. Why didn't they just tell me that to begin with? Why lie and make me think I'd get a call back? It turns out, the woman who I'd been leaving messages with was Samantha Shoemaker. The same woman who sent me an e-mail. I talked to her and it was really strange. She had the EXACT same answers the other girl had. I finally decided to book an interview.
I came in for my interview and found 2 other people sitting in the lobby. My interview was for 1:30. A woman named Lauren was evidently doing the interviewing. I had never heard that name throughout the entire ordeal until just then. As I sat there, 3 more people showed up, all with interviews at 1:30. Apparently Ms. Shoemaker is retarded and doesn't know how to book appointments? Either way, we all sat there for about 20 minutes while the woman doing to interviewing checked her e-mail and joked around. Sounds professional huh? Apparently the girl she was joking around with was Ms. Shoemaker. I didn't actually walk into her office until 2:00.30 minutes after my interview time. When I sat down with Lauren she told me they do direct marketing and regular forms of marketing were being phased out, etc etc. She just used a ton of marketing jargon that no one could possibly understand. Either way, she asked me back for a second interview right then and there. I was under pressure so I said yes. I told them I'd come back for an all day "job shadow" that next day.
The next day, I showed up to find 2 of the people in the lobby that had been there interviewing the day before. We all sat there and talked while we listeneed to a room full of nutjobs scream and yell about god knows what, and listened to uncensored rap... How unprofessional could you possibly get? Finally about 10 guys walked out of a big room into Lauren's office. After about 10 minutes she started calling us 1 by 1 into her office. I was the last one called. I was introduced to a guy (I can't remember his name or I would put it in here) and she said hed be doing my evaluation. I thought we'd be in the office all day. Not the case. He walked me downstairs, and at this point I just figured we were going to a different office inside the building. But no, he actually took me outside. He was saying something and to be honest I was NOT paying attention. I decided to just bite my tongue and go with the flow. So we went out to this guys car with a couple of other guys in cheap suits. We all started driving and we drove out to the Lees Summit area. They had these cards with free royals tickets on them and they were all talking about merching and "slinging coups". We dropped the two other guys off, and then pulled into a strip mall. We got out of the car and walked into a nail salon. They threw him out and we proceeded to go to EVERY business in the strip mall, being thrown out of 3 or 4, never making a sale. It didn't take me long to figure out this was door to door sales. I lasted about an hour before I called my boyfriend to come pick me up.
Here's what makes me SOO MAD. I ASKED both Samantha and Sierra if this was door to door sales. I told them I didn't want to waste my time. I had already interviewed with a company that sold At&t service door to door and it was an awful experience. They both blatantly said NO it was not door to door sales. They LIED. They said there was pr and customer service positions. That was a lie too! There's ONE position open there, and that's a door to door sales position.
PLEASE if you're looking for a job, DO NOT apply with LE Concepts. They will do ANYTHING in their power to get you in the door. Samantha Sierra and Lauren apparently DO NOT have souls. They'll lie and cheat and tell you whatever they can because that company is just awful and is not based around any kind of morals.
If you get an e-mail from Samantha Shoemaker DO NOT respond. She WILL lie to you. She does not have a soul, and is just an awful person.
If you get a phone call from Sierra White HANG UP.
DO NOT let these people fool you into coming in. They are SO good at it. All they do is recruit young college kids to do door to door sales and they LIE to get them to do it!
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