Pros
Free concert and other event tickets. Great networking opportunities. You get to let your creativity show in proposals, commercials etc. Get to meet and watch performances every couple of weeks in the office. Coworkers are friendly and love to help!
Cons
I was started as an account executive literally 2 days after I graduated college and had no experience in radio and minimal experience in sales/advertising. I was told that there was extensive training, resources and I could go to the president and vp of sales if I ever had questions about anything. I was made aware of the base salary for the first 9 months and then it was 100% commission after. I was also told that it would take about 6-9 months to really catch on to everything and have a good list of accounts. The first month went on and I loved the position, I had decent accounts but nothing major and I was having a hard time closing deals because of my lack of training. Then a new vp of sales started and she was great, she started to train me on every aspect of the industry but was not always available to help. A new person started about 3 weeks after the vp and instantly she was given major accounts and expected to do so much when I was getting nothing and being told that I didn't have enough "life experience" to handle these accounts.. I continued to get in trouble for not closing accounts that I had just presented to the business not even a week before even though the president and vp would tell me that it sometimes would take a couple of months and sometimes even a year to get someone to advertise since it is such a big investment. Apparently 3 months is too long for someone who came in with no experience to not have a mile long account list and bringing in over 80k a month (only people who have been in this position for a good amount of time can do that unless you get amazing accounts that spend over 10k a month, which is also VERY hard to come by) the management doesn't care about you or your life. They just care about the money.