Core Sales - Good Entry Level Sales Job if you don't enjoy sleeping at night - Core Payroll Sales Representative Paychex Employee Review

2.0
Mar 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Tremendous amount of flexibility depending on your direct supervisor. You can make decent money if you were decent at selling.

Cons

Very high activity quotas. You must see current clients while scheduling sales calls. However, your are told not to ask the client how things are going. You do not want to be responsible for any issues they are having, just hold out your hand and expect referrals. The product is very high priced. They instruct their reps to take advantage of specific industries/prospects and full bill them. Knowing they would eventually bounce their payroll - "just get them to run 4 payrolls" so it counts as a sale. If clients want to push their payroll into the next month, some of the word tracks given were misleading or completely false intending to intimidate or bully client into running a payroll when they weren't ready. They are one of the most "ethical companies", but that is far from what I experienced during my two years there. Operations is currently undergoing a reorganization. There have been some hiccups. Clients not getting call backs, specialists overwhelmed with accounts, lack of accountability. Once the dust settles, this issue will probably resolve itself. Product is over priced in a commodity industry. Unless you are looking for entry level sales experience and this is the only option you can get - I would look elsewhere.

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Thank you for taking the time to write this review. We are concerned by some of the cons you mentioned and would like to learn more. Would you be willing to provide more feedback on your time at Paychex? If so, you can reach out to Jody Stolt, Director of National Talent Acquisition at jstolt@paychex.com.

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