So to start this off, I was looking for a job in sales and so I put my resume online like everyone else did. I got a call from the Ad group and was asked to come in for an interview. I had no idea what this company was about and how they ran things because I was just excited to get a call, anyway I got interviewed by a woman named Helen Davidov and the interview went fairly well. I got the job as an assistant to her and another woman.
On my first day they sent me to the back office with one of the presidents wife and was taught how to work the systems computer. I was taught how to put in the comissions for every worker and eventually how to make phone calls to potential new workers. They gave me a list of about 50 people to call and set up a date and time when they could come in. Let me tell ya, if you think you're special because they called you for an interview think again, They would just get all the resumes from Monster.com or Careerbuilder.com and print them all out and just start calling people.
By the end of the day they needed to make their quota of at least 20 people that are coming in for interviews the next day or the day after. If you've ever been to the office and look behind the desk in the big glass shelf there are numerous folders. Some of those folders contain pages on "how to get a interview" or "rebuttles on excuses". There's also a rule page that you have to follow.
In the time (3 months) I've worked there I've seen about 100 people not make it to the 2nd interview, about 60 people not come back after the second interview and about 10 so-called leaders being fired. When people get to being a "leader" people usually think that their job is secured and you won't get fired but think again, you just have to step it up about 4 notches then when you were first starting out.
I don't have any complaints about the ad group from my end because they treated me great but I don't want to see anymore people get suckered into this "great paying job".
When it comes to comission it's great but think about if you want to go door to door or business to business because only a certain % of people are actually meant for it and your clients aren't always happy to see you. You are soliciting you know! That's the bottom line. You know how in the olden days there's people going around home to home selling vacuums or something like that... And they were so annoying... Guess what! That's going to be you but you're not going to sell vacuums you're going to sell cable and phone services and for the business to business guess what you're selling... PAPER!!! And staples.
Also, I know owning your own company sounds great but I've only seen one person in that group that's actually succesful and the other "big guys" are just not nice and so not professional behind close doors. I say, if you want a good comission job that's professional and not door to door go apply at an upscale department store like neiman marcus or nordstroms. At least that way you know you're getting the money you actually earned and not half of it.
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