Vantaggi
I've worked in the DC office and really love it here. I was very fortunate to join when I did and come up with a Recruiting class that I'm bonded with and have become my friends for life. This place will give back what you put in, but if you half-ass it, aren't mature enough, or have too much of an ego, you will not do well here. - Great Culture: you can truly be yourself and you will be accepted, unless you're a racist, homophobic, or a misogynist (you are not welcomed here) - I truly believe anyone can be good at this job because you adapt the training to your style (whether you are introvert or an extrovert, whether you actually know the technology or don't understand it all, whether you have a lick of business sense or not, etc.) - Unlike other sales jobs, you will not get cut if you're not performing -> Numbers and KPIs are important, but are you learning the fundamentals and improving? - Training is great, tons of leeway to learn and become good at the job, but if you end up leaving or are let go, you will find a great internal recruiting position somewhere - Top performing office (DC) so you will be around a winning culture and will learn from the best. - Supportive management staff that wants to see you succeed and will help you out -> Just make sure you get more than one person's perspective/opinion when asking for help because one person's advice will hit you different than other's
Svantaggi
- The staff is senior so it will be a grind for junior staff to get ahead since they are competing for new clients against some of the top performers in the company -> but the strongest steel is forged by the hottest fire, so you will get ahead if you put forth the effort - Because DC is a high performing region, you may feel intimidated, or may not ask for help which ends up hurting your growth -> but I'd also say there are no stupid questions, so just ask for help - There are ups and downs in sales, you're not protected from an emotional roller coaster, or extreme highs and very low lows - Commissions are more heavily weighed towards individual performance versus individual + team like before, which inevitably changes the incentive from "I'll make money as long as the team places this candidate" to "I'll make the most money if I placed this candidate over someone on the team".