June 18, 2004
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What an interesting day that was, well yesterday I mean - since it's 2:00 AM right now! Anyways, I went to Vector Marketing for my interview, and it was a group interview of 8 people. The job is basically dependant upon referrals and such, presenting their "world's finest cutlery" to people. Each presentation is about 45-60 minutes to grow a connection between the consumer and distributor.
Firstly he got out a normal pair of scissors and asked for two pennies and explained that if you lost your corkscrew, you could always do this... and to my amazement he cut the edges of the penny into a corkscrew shape! Secondly, he brought out this ordinary knife and asked someone to come up and cut at a peice of rope. It took about 40 thrusts and pulls to cut the thing, to my amazement it was an ordinary knife! *sarcasm* Then he pulled out a CutCo knife and the guy cut through the peice of rope with a single thrust, wow!
After the demonstrations, he basically told us about the company and how it works. It's purely referral based, so it's house-to-house without being one of those stupid door salesmen. Thus, "word of mouth" dominates this company. Base salary is approxiamately $15 an hour, which is one presentation. There's also incentives, which start out at 10% per sale. After $1000 of sales you get upgraded to 15% and so forth. Vector Marketing also has benifits, such as scholarships and contests for vacations and hockey games, etc. Plus, training is absolutely free! The Vector Marketing training is supposidly a part of some university business text books.
At the end of the 90+ minute interview he asked us to step into his office individually. When it was my turn he read my notes on the presentation and said he'd hire me because I thoroughly understood everything that he explained. Now my dilemma is that I figure working with presentations in peoples houses is difficult because you have to go all over the place, but i need the money and what other job pays $15 an hour?
Comments (5)
Hey there,
Random e-props! Your site is cool and you're very cute! Come check out my site sometime...
well at least u got a good job XD lol grats?
hey matty!..^_^ ni hao ma?..=]
so hot!...=
father's day today!!..what did you do with ur daddy?..^_^
I was offered a job for selling newspaper subscriptions house to house. If it had been an hourly wage like yours, I would have taken it because I needed the money so badly at the time.
Anyhow, what I'm saying is that you should go ahead and take the job. You should at least try it out and see how you like it.. who knows, you might be a natural salesman which could open doors to your future careers. That's my two cents.
i think it's cool and all but u have to be very convincing.. and u gotta talk alot.. and wat a/b those really really RUDE people.. well good luck ne ways.. $15/hr man.. u gotta .. "do it for hte children..." hehhehe
vivi
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