Pros
- Catered Lunches/get togethers/team bonding on a monthly basis. - Literally, and I mean this, the nicest & most unique office in Northern VA. - The opportunity to develop close relationship with the CEO, who is very well connected within the GovCon space and HR space. (40+ years in HR space, 30+ in the GovCon space) Also great opportunity to connect with very successful people in the industry (sales wise), as C2 essentials has a very reputable name in this industry. The CEO is highly passionate and has an action-oriented leadership approach with the attempt to motivate, you need a can-do attitude - Opportunity to travel to the biggest DoD/Intel/Military/Special forces/IT conferences in the country. Many other companies in this field at these events, have teams with 1000+ people that only send the best of the absolute best. Caveat: Despite being a small team, you are given a chance to go to these events, but only if you show you are invested and actually took the time to learn what c2 essentials is selling and feel confident talking about it. - You will work with some of the kindest people (in all departments.) - Long term career growth and room to move up in all departments (only if you show you are capable of doing so) If you have what it takes, you will be given an opportunity. I saw a review below criticizing the ability to move up fast and I think that's a little bit ridiculous... For example... If you are given an opportunity with little experience, and the company owner believes in you to step up, and you make mistakes (affecting relationships with potential and current clients), why would you expect to get a sunshine and rainbow reaction? The person who built a company should expect good results, shocker. People here are highly compensated... its a sole proprietorship, not a corporation who would get rid of you without consideration. - Opportunity to learn about what really goes on in the backend of running a successful business, in terms of everything HR, and what it takes to manage active government contracts as a business owner. -You have the opportunity to get full insight on how we help out clients. In training, I spent multiple days in every department shadowing, giving me a better idea of how we actually help our clients. This gave me confidence in selling. - There are endless resources to utilize, to learn more about what C2 does and what we sell, but you have to be self motivated and want to win.
Cons
- CEO, out of kindness, has given people chances who are not particularly qualified, and has hired people who are sometimes incompetent. This has directly made my job difficult at times. - I worked with remote sales people who were pretty lazy, and did not meet their numbers (call wise, appointment wise, dedication wise). Many were hard to get a hold of and seemed like they were working for maybe 1-2 hours and did their own thing rest of the day. I believe this is because of the good base salary, which made people get comfortable. - Your hand wont always be held and some things you will learn on your own (in sales), however, in other departments such as HR & Payroll, you'll have dedicated managers that are very hands on. However, there is a new sales manager who seems very dedicated to making a difference in this department. When i started in 2021, there was a great sales manager of 7+ years who passed away unexpectedly, which in turn made it difficult for new sales people to get the hang of it. This slowed down the morale and momentum of the sales team for a period of time. - In somewhat of a rebuilding stage so the team is small, a few team members who have been here for 10-15+ years have stepped away for reasons that dont involve any sort of misconduct. (family matters, and 2+ of which have simply retired). So there are few things that are in still in the process of being figured out. - Some people have had trouble in the past dealing with pressure from leadership, and I saw a lot of people take that the wrong way. To be cut and dry you need to have thick skin and have the bigger picture in mind. Not for the faint of heart, you are here to do a job and pressure is something that you need to learn how to deal with.