Please read before taking any interview from Vigor Concepts or any other office of Cydcor. There are many in the Chicago Land area and many more coming up every week. The entire company is an MLM (Multi-Level-Marketing) scam. This company is no different from Amway Global except they actually try to convince you that you will become rich doing this door to door sales or as they call it "business to business" sales. It is by far the biggest insult to human intelligence. They first get your resume from career-builder and will contact you by email regarding an interview. If you do not respond to the initial email they will email you again and/or call you to schedule an interview. The "hr" department one person and its the same person you see when you open the office door. I'm all for being in a relaxed atmosphere but playing loud radio in the waiting area is not my idea of what an office should be. After you do set up the interview, you get there and fill out a form with some questions hoping to help them find out who is most likely to be willing to put up with shit for shit pay. After completing the form you are called into the office with the office manager who performs the prelim interview for 10 to 15 minutes. The office manager does not cross me as the most honest person but there is little you can really learn in 15 minutes I'm just saying I would not expect him to be there for anyone in need. After the prelim you are told they will call you back for a full interview if they think you are a fit. Everyone is a "fit" so expect a call unless you tell them you refuse to do door to door sales. They will tell you its not door to door sales but that is exactly what it is without a doubt. They will also tell you that they are only interviewing for a 1 or 2 positions but that is horse shit. They will accept anyone willing to slave for a dollar.
Upon returning for your full interview you are asked to fill another form with questions ranging from what you are looking for from the job and what kind of car your drive, make, model, and color. Why they need that info, I do not know. But after filling out the form you are then told who you will be shadowing for the day. Make sure you bring comfortable shoes because walking around for 8 or 9 hours sucks especially when you are not getting paid for it. They ask that you dress in business formal so the businesses take you more seriously honestly it would not matter. They also insist the face to face is far better than the telemarketing, I simply disagree but I guess it is a little harder to say no to someone you see in person unless you are dealing with businesses who simply do not care for what you are selling or with products that are simply no better that the competition.
The sales pitch to the businesses starts off with a lie that they are receiving calls from local businesses complaining about surcharges on their monthly merchants bill. Then they go one to state that they work for Innovative Merchant Solutions, which is an Intuit company. That is the second lie in only the second line of the sales pitch to local businesses. They work for Cydcor and are selling services as contractors for commission. Then they go into telling the customer that they are offering the client the cheapest option possible which is another lie. They are told that for the first could of sales they can simply offer the card machines for free then they can charge up to $500 maybe even more for the machines. My guess is they can keep that money or it some how goes through to line someone's pockets.
You do this for the first half of the day and just hope it is not hot or cold outside. After the morning you then have lunch in the area which you are disturbing the businesses with your sales practices. The lunch is on you so make sure you bring your money. During lunch your are told about the compensation and the growth opportunity, what a joke. IF you fall for the scam and take the job you are put in as Entry Level. At this level you spend the first 5 days doing training for which you are paid a total of $150, enough to cover nothing.in those 5 days you go on the street selling services you may never fully understand. After those 5 day they say you are expected to earn a max of $500-$600/week I find it hard to believe but that the point of a scam. You stay at entry lever for a month. After the month you move to Training/Leadership which lasts 6-12 months with an earning potential of $600-$1000 which is even harder to believe knowing what they are doing. Doing the whole time you are driving with your own car, buying gas, lunch, and insurance without any reimbursement. And you much develop 4 entry levels before your are eligible for the next level. You are also responsible for doing the full interviews. The fact the advancement is dependent on "developing" new blood rather than work are signs of MLM scams. The next stage is Assistant Manager where you learn to be a one stop shop for the office. During which you make between 1000 to 1500 per week which i do not believe. Since most of your work is training to be manager I am not sure why there is such a large range. Then there is management where you make 100 to 120K per year after office expenses. After promoting 5 people into Management you become an organizational consultant where you make over $400K, i find it hard to believe. The you can become of of the select few who are called "Senior National" or there 8 or 9 king pins that still all the money you thought you would be making.
After learning all the bogus shit they then go back on the street to sell more lies and shit. If you are an honest person and lucky then no one buys the bullshit they are selling while you are present. You then go the rest of the day bored waiting for the nightmare to end. Then after the road time comes to an end you are then driving back to the office where you answer a questionnaire about the day and speak to the manager. After the meeting you are then told you are a member of the team. If you like selling your soul then you will be fine, if you lie regularly then you should be fine, but if you are an honest person then this is not the job for you. If you want to make money find a job or start a business. This is the one of the worst scams because it costs time. You cannot make that time back. Do not take this job. The can only be stopped if you refuse to take the job, but there are always idiots waiting in line where the last one came from.
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