*warning: read before interviewing*
This company is a textbook marketing scheme w / an extremely high turnover rate. The primary goal of Ultra Management Inc. (New Wave Promotions Inc. & Endeavor Marketing Inc) in Denver, Colorado is to exploit recent college graduates. Proceed with caution.
The first round interview is roughly five minutes depending on how well you can shoot the breeze. They will give you no details as to your day to day responsiblities. The business revolves around impluse. Next, you will be asked in for a second round interview. This will consist of a day of observation where you spend the entire day with 'a top guy in the office'. He will most likely have a great attitude and be easy to get along with. Be skeptical of everything that is said and done during your day of observation. The second round interview is meant to show you what goes on and COERCE you in to taking the position. This company is not one to under promote and over deliver. Actually, it is fair to say they operate in the complete opposite manor. At lunch, you will most likely be told how the management program works. This description will vary as it seldom holds true. This job is a management-training program. However, there is no way to decipher how long it will take one to reach management. You will most likely be given a time frame under one year. It all depends on how fast you learn, how well you sell/badger, and how quickly you can teach, train, and retain new salesmen.
Take everything discussed about the business with a grain of salt. As a side note, do not buy in to the games played during the interview process (i.E. Fear of loss, sense of urgency, indifference, greed etc.). There is not a position that will disappear if you do not accept on the spot. They would hire 100 people a week if it was feasible, and the lobby is full because they cannot keep these alleged spots filled.
You are told you will receive a salary of 400 dollars weekly once you begin, as well as a salary of 1000 plus as an assistant manager. This is entirely false. Be advised you are applying for a job that is strictly commission. Under OSHA regulations, you will be paid at least minimum wage. You are guaranteed minimum wage if you do not generate enough in commission to cover. The majority of people in the office do not cover. When they do, their commission is rarely reflected in paychecks. This is a result of the caveat nobody actually hears about. The manager may keep whatever commission you earn to make up for paying you minimum wage in the past. Furthermore, you will not receive any benefits. To that end, your parents should be prepared to pay your bills and health insurance for the next couple years.
If you are to buy in to what you see and hear on your 'day of O' my message to you is, caveat emptor! What should you expect if you accepted the position? First and foremost, you will encounter a room full of positivist, high energy, and loud music. This is known as the atmosphere room. You are taught the marketing systems and pitches in said room. A motivational speech will usually take place once a week. Maybe more depending on how often newly acquired sheep failed to read this report. You will quickly notice the meetings are purely propaganda. They are geared toward brainwashing everyone in the office, usually the new guy standing next to you.
Sadly people want to believe what they are told regarding the position, the company, and the opportunity. Unfortunately, the only people making millions are the handful of originals at the top of all these independent branches. The propaganda about making major bucks, speaking poorly about other career paths, and those that choose them is all a ploy to keep you coming back the next day. After the pitching and brainwashing speech you hit the field. You will be the petulant Directv salesman in a retail store, lead generator or cabinet salesman in Home Depot. There is no glamour in the position, despite what you're told (or not told) during the first interview. Expect to drive roughly 50-60 miles per day. Moreover, be prepared to sacrifice your entire life outside of work, as this job consumes 70-80 hours a week in the field, including weekends. Let me repeat that, you will work weekends whilst your manager takes the day off.
Your only way out of the field is to build a team, which will inevitably fall apart time after time as people realize what they got in to - little and inconsistent pay, long hours, no benefits, and no social life. Once you have displayed competence in the marketing system, ability to sell, and maintain a positive attitude, you are given the chance to build a team. One day of observation at a time. The people you are given to teach and train will be congruent with characteristics you have exuded. If you do not have a car, forget about building a team. The manager will allow you to build said team not based on merit but politics. Do not buy in to the 100% merit based nonsense. Your rate of success is extremely political. Each individual in the office is merely a pawn in the manager's game of chess. Nothing more.
Promotions. This is another tool used for retention. They hold no water what so ever. Nor is there a concise algorithm or structure used in determining when a promotion is deserving. Stick around a few weeks and they will have no choice but to promote you! Let it be known, you will not reach this magical land of financial freedom once you make management. This insinuation is overdone with the intent of delaying your inevitable departure back to grown up land.
Road trips. Road trip; retention tool used to have you sold on the business. Highly sought after individuals will be sent to another office in the country for 'training' on a new campaign, or perhaps to help out a freshly opened office. You will be paying for all but airfare, and be staying in someone's house in that respective city/town. Couch, spare bed, floor, it varies. There is a high probability you will spend more than you earn on said road trip.
To sum everything up, this position is a burn and churn marketing scheme for a self proclaimed elite firm in Denver. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, if you can live off minimum wage, or have parents willing to pay your way for the years to come. Proceed with caution ladies and gentleman; use your best judgment.
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