Pros
Contacting senior executives of big companies inside and outside the country normally speed up your professional "maturation" process, once you can feel and learn what is really important to companies and find a pattern to success. When you get this, you will be able to measure your real value to other companies, speak with people who can hire you in the future and find a nice opportunity you've been looking for. If you have good events at your hand, you will get a good money - but it will be hard at first, as you don't get real "meat", the 2nd stage events. If you want to succeed, you need to perform marginally well with the "bones", the launchs and weak repeats. From these you can earn some money and, as the turnover is quite high, your time to get the best events will come. Here in SP, we know executives getting more than R$ 15.000,00 monthly, and in other branches up to $ 30.000,00 in a non-management, inside sales position. Finally, you will learn to deal with incredible amounts of pressure and be in a fast paced environment. People with more than a year working here can work at any pressure and any pace wherever.
Cons
The overall management can sometimes be very narrow minded. The company has precious management information flowing from a number of events which influence top players in various markets. This could serve as priceless benchmarks, but are fully ignored. The managers are normally raised from inside the company, and usually they don't have any proven management skill. They are excellent producers, marketers and salesmen, but most of them are poor executives. This results in: - poor HR management, leading to imense turnover, poor change management, zero talent management, poor attraction and recruiting. - poor Marketing management, leading to zero innovation (although what they usually do is not that bad) - poor BI, leading to a number of bad events, loss of money and low attended events. - poor sales management, with low incentives, pure pressure environment, production-driven department which gives more importance to KPI's than a well developed sales
