Samadhi M.
1/5
SCAM!!
I advice that recent graduates not fall for these entry level marketing jobs, specially posted on sites like Ziprecruiter. There are so many and its usually the same company working under different names and places but management and training and even the interview process is exactly the same.
They make you come for like three interviews on different days and give you all these tests and lectures about how to move up the ladder at the company to make it look legit only to hire everyone because people don't stay in such places long enough to reach those levels. So they have to hire a lot of people. The person who hired me was, I think, an anthropology major who had the self claimed title of Human Resources Manager. I asked them at the first interview if its a door-to-door sales and the "Human Resources Manager" told me "oh no, We don't believe in that", instead you'd be standing in street corners and begging people to give them their money or standing in a Canadian Tire selling credit cards (I wasn't a part of this, thankfully I got out before I moved onto the natural next step).
When I applied(2019) it was $35 for the day(lower than minimum wage) plus whatever you make by tricking people into signing a monthly contract to have them give you $30 or more a month. I worked on the charity program which I thought would be rewarding, but on my first day my trainer, I & two other "Sales Representatives" from a different company followed a man all the way to the bank to get his bank information to sign him up to give money to a charity. I felt awful and like I was robbing the poor man, who backed out at the very end when he found out it was a monthly commitment rather than a one time thing.
They will avoid telling the people that its a monthly commitment for as long as possible & sometimes they don't find out until the very end of the process so by this time they have committed time and effort to this that they don't end up saying "no". This is specially true for younger people who go along with whatever the sales rep says, which are obviously geared to make you say "yes". I watched as they flirted with these people to get their attention and I watched as others tried to convince unemployed people to sign up for a monetary commitment just to meet their target at the end of the day.
They make you make a list of how many people you will stop and at the end of the day they make you list again how many you stopped, how many stayed to listen to the pitch, how many stayed till the end of the pitch, how many stayed till you pulled out the tablet and finally how many you signed up, all in an effort to increase how many people you talk to the next day. I felt the disdain people felt as I approached them and at some point I just stopped calling out to people because I knew they didn't want to be bothered. They train you to say "excuse me" in a way that sounds like you have a question for them, like asking for directions, so that those people, being decent human being, stop to help you but all you need is their money.
They tell you its from 9am-6pm in the Ad and at the interview but when you actually start working they expect you to stay longer and meet the target. They target recent graduates because they need young people to stand for long periods of time and don't even give you a lunch break. If they do they want you to finish eating as fast as possible so that you can talk to more people.
Also, they ask you to go to places far from the office building so you have to arrange your own transportation.
I don't understand how something like this is legal and actually exists. The people who actually want to donate don't want to give their credit card information to random people standing on the street and don't trust something like this. I don't really know how much the charities themselves benefit from this kind of ridiculous and annoying campaigning, but those of you applying for these jobs, unless you are absolutely desperate for money, like you will be evicted if you don't have it, don't even bother going to an interview.