Gather 'round children as I tell the tale of my brush with potential employement with Dell!
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Anyway, it all started about three monthes ago. Actually, as sort of a prelim, you must know that Dell's world headquarters are situated in a small (but fastly growing) city named Round Rock, just north of the capital of Texas, Austin. I have lived in Round Rock my whole life, and even remember the space with which Dell's numerous buildings are now sitting, used to be an awesome bluebonnet field. I live about three minutes away, literally. To continue, having left Fry's Electronics in search of another job, I applied at numerous places, Dell being one of which I got no response from. Fast forward to the present up until a week ago, and having already found another job logn ago, Dell calls and asks if I wish to go in for an employee assessment test to find out if I am suitable to be... employed. After some difficulty with the recruiter and her inability to properly send an E-mail, I finally get in, which was yesterday. Assessment was easy, I found it very easy to answer the question "Would you get visibly angry with a customer/supervisor/co-worker?" as (a)No instead of (e)I'd kill them.
Cutting past the exageration, the "business math" aka simple percentage calculations and addition was easy as well. To cut to the chase, I was a "match" which got me an interview.
That was today. This morning to be more precise. I thought it went OK... my main holdback being that I have no college education. Before the interview, I got to sit down with one of the sales reps and "shadow" him. Apparently he did not like the lights too much.
...Moving on, I learned more about the company than they did me, and even if they call back to accept me, I believe I may turn them down. In that brief instance, the enviroment was both very cool but also somewhat scary. Imagine walking into a huge office room, with about 50 rows of 12 half-height cubicles, each with a person chattering away on a headset for 10+ hours a day. Take into account that that's only one side and there are also three floors. Anyway, moving on to the actual job, I found out it requires lots of hours, 10-11 a day plus a couple of Saturdays a month, if you want to meet your quotas. The training class to use their system is a month long, and even after that you wouldn't be getting into any good sales for another 2 or so weeks, which means all that time you're getting paid barely anything.
Next, forgetting the facts that it's a high pressure, high stress job, I also don't think I'd very good at it. I've been a salesman for about two years now, and the whole time I've never really liked selling that much. The only thing that makes me a good "salesman" is that I know what I'm talking about and enjoy giving the knowledge that I have, and people tend to trust me, because I'm an honest person. Apparently these two factors don't seem to come into play alot in this job at Dell. The fact that it's over the phone makes it really difficult to establish trust in the same way, and according to the sales rep I talked to and the interview couple, most the people calling in either already know the technical details, or too stupid to want to.
Finally, to close this up, the main decision maker was that I've been putting off college for too long, had the intention to start community college in the spring, and this would interfere greatly with the amount of hours required. With the job I have now, I work 32 hours a week which is still considered full-time, in an almost zero-stress enviroment, and get paid decently for it. Dell would be the beginning of a career, but not the career I want to be in...
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Anyway, it all started about three monthes ago. Actually, as sort of a prelim, you must know that Dell's world headquarters are situated in a small (but fastly growing) city named Round Rock, just north of the capital of Texas, Austin. I have lived in Round Rock my whole life, and even remember the space with which Dell's numerous buildings are now sitting, used to be an awesome bluebonnet field. I live about three minutes away, literally. To continue, having left Fry's Electronics in search of another job, I applied at numerous places, Dell being one of which I got no response from. Fast forward to the present up until a week ago, and having already found another job logn ago, Dell calls and asks if I wish to go in for an employee assessment test to find out if I am suitable to be... employed. After some difficulty with the recruiter and her inability to properly send an E-mail, I finally get in, which was yesterday. Assessment was easy, I found it very easy to answer the question "Would you get visibly angry with a customer/supervisor/co-worker?" as (a)No instead of (e)I'd kill them.
Cutting past the exageration, the "business math" aka simple percentage calculations and addition was easy as well. To cut to the chase, I was a "match" which got me an interview.That was today. This morning to be more precise. I thought it went OK... my main holdback being that I have no college education. Before the interview, I got to sit down with one of the sales reps and "shadow" him. Apparently he did not like the lights too much.
...Moving on, I learned more about the company than they did me, and even if they call back to accept me, I believe I may turn them down. In that brief instance, the enviroment was both very cool but also somewhat scary. Imagine walking into a huge office room, with about 50 rows of 12 half-height cubicles, each with a person chattering away on a headset for 10+ hours a day. Take into account that that's only one side and there are also three floors. Anyway, moving on to the actual job, I found out it requires lots of hours, 10-11 a day plus a couple of Saturdays a month, if you want to meet your quotas. The training class to use their system is a month long, and even after that you wouldn't be getting into any good sales for another 2 or so weeks, which means all that time you're getting paid barely anything.Next, forgetting the facts that it's a high pressure, high stress job, I also don't think I'd very good at it. I've been a salesman for about two years now, and the whole time I've never really liked selling that much. The only thing that makes me a good "salesman" is that I know what I'm talking about and enjoy giving the knowledge that I have, and people tend to trust me, because I'm an honest person. Apparently these two factors don't seem to come into play alot in this job at Dell. The fact that it's over the phone makes it really difficult to establish trust in the same way, and according to the sales rep I talked to and the interview couple, most the people calling in either already know the technical details, or too stupid to want to.
Finally, to close this up, the main decision maker was that I've been putting off college for too long, had the intention to start community college in the spring, and this would interfere greatly with the amount of hours required. With the job I have now, I work 32 hours a week which is still considered full-time, in an almost zero-stress enviroment, and get paid decently for it. Dell would be the beginning of a career, but not the career I want to be in...
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