Reply #21: Did you find this job thru some ad in a paper or online? [View All]

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I have answered a ton of ads, went to interviews, bla, bla, bla.

I have found out a few things:

If they are vague about what the job is and how you get paid, there's a reason.

Do they offer benefits? Do they tell you what benefits and when you get them?

Its been my experience that "marketing" jobs, the kind that offer a 50-100k salary right off the bat, are really lower-end sales jobs. They are already trying to lie to you by not telling you that it is indeed a sales job.

Also, if you seen the same ad over and over, you'd have to ask yourself, why would they have such a hard time filling such a great job.

The best ad I answered from one of these ads turned out to be mortgate sales. No experience needed - a dead giveaway - and six digit income year one! Well, that is if you can cold-call people on the phone and talk them into refinancing their mortgage with you, right out of the blue with someone they've never met or heard of. But that job did have a livable base salary and benefits. Problem for me was it was a sweat shop, and if you weren't meeting some high quota, you were out on your a$$.

The worst of these "marketing" jobs will, sometime very soon after your second interview, require some type of "investment." You may be selling water purification filters, or something. Door to door. And they'll teach you how to become rich quick, but for a price. And then you have to "buy" your "inventory" to get started.

If money has to come from your pocket before they put money into your pocket - walk away.

My guess is, at best, its something that will require a lot of cold calling and long hours, will be commission only with big quotas to meet before you hit the "big pay," and will have someone breathing down your neck to push you.

I would be very interested to know what they're selling, if not who they are, if you can maybe share that.

But do go for the second interview. It could really be something. Just take you bs detector.