Buyer Beware
The job board postings from Denver Mattress are not posted with integrity. Please be warned about this, as it often reflects on the culture of a company.
The listing is posted as $70,000 salary. There are two points of contention here. First, it's actually $40,000. This information IS provided in the listing details; however, this is a shady bait and switch tactic to get people to clock on the listing. Second, the $70,000 is the average Sales Manager salary. This would be like posting a fry cook position at a GM salary, then in the listing saying, "You'll make it there one day!" Quite an unethical practice.
This is just scraping the surface. This is a commission only position. It is quite unethical to post a commission only position without saying it is such. If the job is worth it, this detail will not hold anyone back.
The biggest problem? You are only temporarily working in the listed location. Once training is completed, you will be listed as being available to be an assistance store manager (45-55k average, commission only). When one comes available, anywhere in the United States, you either take the position and move or you leave the job. This is non-negotiable. However, you aren't done. This was a Sales Manager in Training position, not Assistant Manager in Training. If you do a poor job, you'll be fired (rightly so). If you do good, you'll become a store manager. Not there, however. You'll be required to move, yet again, where in the United States a store has become available.
All of this information should be in the job listing. Leaving it out is a shady attempt to get warm bodies in the door, hoping one of them sticks. As this is the first impression an applicant gets, we can only assume their sales process is similar.
This process, the pay, the moving... it's okay with some people. If you're okay with that, one final warning. The first interview will take about two hours, and focus more on every minuscule detail of your life more than your work or sales history. This will be used in later interviews in a very invasive manner which borders on illegal.
