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NCSA College Recruiting

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Excellent company that lost its way - Recruiting Specialist NCSA College Recruiting Employee Review

2.0
Sep 24, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

***When founder of NCSA, Chris Krause, owned and operated the company there were so many more pros than this. Below is what is left under the new venture capitalist group.*** Talk about sports. Work from home. Excellent recruiting technology Good health benefits Help educate student athletes on the process and at least think about a plan for their future

Cons

***NCSA was founded on the premise of connecting academically and athletically qualified student-athletes with college coaches. After the venture capitalist group took over things turned unethical. The message from the VPs is to sell everybody whether they are athletically and academically qualified or not. I question how ethical it is to try to sell families with low income the dream of free tuition through athletics when you know their child has no chance based on their athletic background. See uploaded photo of sales training slide *** Work 7 days per week. You have 1 day “off” per week which just means you aren’t doing full product demos/sales with families that night. You are still required to do introduction and follow up calls that day. Used to be able to make peace with the schedule and hours because the money was solid ($90-$120k) but no longer the case. The company is hiring like crazy so leads are diluted. Company sales revenues keep going up while individual specialist earnings continue to go down.

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NCSA College Recruiting Response
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First off, thank you for your 8+ years!! I would hope that someone who has been dedicated to NCSA for that long would have given us a better star rating, so I hope you’ll reach out to someone directly if you haven’t already to address some of these concerns directly. I personally would love to talk to you. In your position as a Recruiting Specialist, it is important you provide our families the RIGHT package that fits their recruiting needs in addition to their financial needs. If you find a low-income family, you know we have discounted memberships for them in addition to free memberships for families who qualify for our All in Award. Please make sure you’re offering these options. Also, as you know, it’s our Recruiting Coach’s job to evaluate our clients academically and athletically. Although it happens rarely, if they determine a student-athlete is not qualified to compete at the college level, then we cannot market these student-athletes to college coaches and do offer refunds to those families. NCSA has remained committed to our Recruiting Specialists to keep a consistent compensation plan year over year after previously receiving complaints for changing it too often. We evaluate compensation across departments every year to remain competitive and will do so again for the upcoming year. Finally, I’m not sure what your VP said to you about Glassdoor, but I’m sorry if it felt like a bother or insincere. We do occasionally ask our teammates to write reviews on Glassdoor, as this is a Glassdoor best practice. These reviews are important to job seekers and is a way for our team members to share their anonymous feedback and tell their future teammates what it’s like to work here.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

- Work from home - Get to talk about sports every day, and getting to learn about new sports - Manager was awesome, but I may have been lucky - I heard bad things about other managers! - There are about 10 teams of Recruiting Coordinators, all performing the same role, and each team being managed differently. Not sure if this is a pro or con

Cons

- Making around 100 calls/day - Leads are technically not cold, but they might as well be - lots of families didn't realize what they were signing up for - Over half of the leads in my funnel every day were recycled, i.e. we have called them in the past and they were not interested. Sometimes leads were recycled upwards of 10 times - Making phone calls from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm local time - often calling families at 7 -8 pm their time - Will likely be flagged if you go more than 20 minutes without making a call unless communicating with your manager

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