I found Milestone Marketing on careerbuilder.com as a job for entry level marketing. It promoted entry level management, entry level sales, and entry level marketing. They offered paid training, outstanding growth opportunity, travel opportunities, and performance based compensation?
Sounds like a perfect first job for a recent college grad, right? It's not! This company/job, along with many like it, is a scam. They bring you in for an interview process. The first interview is informational and they continue to pitch the same appealing propaganda that their job posting had. It's a huge waste of time because it's just a rehash of everything you already know, but glorified. The second interview, they tell you the gig. They sell Direct TV and Vizio. That's it. They pay you to "train" (learn about the product) then you hit the street running doing door to door sales. You use your own vehicle and resources and by the end of the week, you've spent more than the commission you've made. Essentially, you're working for free or worse, paying to work.
The "management" aspect comes when you have already drank the kool aid and you buy into this cult. Then, you can open your own division and hire your own employees to do the sales. They make you pay for your own office space and offer little to no support. You invest more into this scam than you will ever make out of it.
College grads (and people seeking employment in general) beware of this scam and the countless others like it. If you search "marketing" in monster or careerbuilder, about every other position offered is along the same lines as this. Good luck on finding a real marketing position and stay positive.
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