Pros
-Help student athletes obtain scholarships and play sports in college -Educate families on recruiting -Talk about sports -Work from home -Solid commission if you're prepared to grind it out 6-7 days a week on nights and weekends -Product really does help student-athletes better their opportunities to play in college
Cons
-Unrealistic sales goals -Head scouts are encouraged to focus on "work/life balance" but the unrealistic sales goals make it impossible to take any time off -Quality of network of student athletes is diminished due to increased sales goals i.e. Head Scouts are pushed so hard to hit goals they will sign up almost anyone -No base pay, 100% commission (Head Scouts were misled by Senior Management on this issue. We were told, face to face, by Senior Management that we would be receiving a base salary in 2013 but it never happened) -No monetary performance-based bonuses. Used to provide monetary performance-based bonuses but no longer do so. The most recent bonus given to a top performer was "a night on the town" with a member of Senior Management. -Senior Management made it crystal clear that they are not worried about losing top talent as there is always someone else to replace them -Senior Management makes business decisions without consulting people who are on the front lines actually doing the job every day -Senior Management makes business decisions without thinking of contingency or back-up plans, have never "Hoped for the best, prepared for the worst." -Decisions are regularly made that serve to benefit a small faction of top Senior Management with no regard for those it will affect in a negative way -Most promotions occur within a small faction of Senior Management who have the longest tenure -Fake words are created to promote company values