Vantaggi
Great work environment, really nice people. Excellent commission structure.
Svantaggi
I originally applied for a Business Development Executive position with Daft.ie. However, I was offered the role of Business Development Manager (which wasn’t even been advertised). I didn’t ask any questions as it was more money. 2 months into the role learnt that I was working the base of clients of an employee on maternity leave, I didn’t think much of this at the time. I overachieved on my quarterly target and was extremely happy with how I was progressing. It was in my 5th month that the individual who was on maternity leave cake back, she sat at a desk with no phone, which was strange. A month later, having smashed my second quarterly target, I had my 6 month probation meeting in which I was told that it was been extended by one month (they didn’t want to get rid of me a week before Christmas). They told me I needed to work on things that had nothing to do with my sales abilities, which didn’t add up at all. However, I worked at these small things knowing well what was going on in the background. Come mid January I went to my meeting fully prepared for the eventuality. For a company with such a great reputation it was extremely underhanded of them to essentially use me as maternity cover. This led to me struggling to find work for over 7 months, whereas I had 9 years selling experience going in and had never been unemployed for more than 2-3 weeks. I found it hard in interviews to explain that I had done what I had been employed to do but that I was let go. In my 12 years in sales, I’ve never come across such sneaky underhanded tactics, that caused me huge distress when leaving and trying to find new employment. Beware.....