Pros
- There are great people at every level of the business, from entry to upper management. - The service you're selling is one that has real potential to be of incredible value for the right buyer. - Great for building confidence in selling over the phone. If you're pursuing a career in sales, being able to pick up the phone and call a prospective client with confidence is non-negotiable. - This job requires non-stop dialling from the moment you start your day until the moment your day ends. High volume repetitions like this are a great way to develop basic sales fundamentals. - When you move on in your career, you will be thankful you had this job. It's truly the grown-up equivalent of when your parents used to make you to eat ALL your vegetables before you were allowed to eat 7 ice cream sandwiches and watch Cars 2.
Cons
- You are not the CEO of your desk, as this implies you hold any sort of creative control over how your day looks. Sure, you can make decisions like which colour pen to use, but your responsibilities are pretty clearly laid out from the beginning. 100% outbound calls start to finish. Not fun, but every new salesperson has to do it at some point. - The compensation is not "the most competitive salary+commission structure in the industry", it is on the lower end of compensation for a BDR. Not the lowest, but to say it's the most competitive salary is strange to me. This is Glassdoor. People can look up BDR salaries. This isn't necessarily a con. As a new grad looking to start a career in sales, the first priority should be fundamentals and training, worry about compensation later. - Although I actually really liked all of the managers, there were multiple situations where criticism was 100% justifiable, but delivered in a way which was anything but constructive.
