Southwestern Advantage Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Southwestern Advantage as an intern for less than a year

Pros – If you choose to do direct sales, you'll learn how to manage your emotion/schedule/behavior. The compensation can be great, 40% of sales.

Cons – Extremely physically draining, mental/psychological stress of a hard sales job can be overbearing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Southwestern Advantage as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Everyday you get opportunity to get used to American culture, you need to be independent, always bee able to solve every problem you meet. There is a great chance to win self'confidence and learn how to face rejection as well.

Cons – Hard-working, long hours, very tiring job, involving to put maximum effort

Advice to Senior Management – Be yourself, work ambitiously, be motivated, be goal-oriented

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Southwestern Advantage as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Direct contact with families
Sales training
Managers calling each day to see how your day is going
Hands on meetings to go over your stats each week

Cons – Long hours 75+ hours to even get average earnings ($5000 for one summer)
There will be expenses that you may not account for

Former Employee – worked at Southwestern Advantage full-time for more than a year

Pros – great people, hours, work/life balance

Cons – management, pay, customer service is not knowledgable

Advice to Senior Management – Visit customer service more often and give access to other departments for advancement

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Southwestern Advantage full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great experience. Employers love to see the dedication and persistence. Quickly develop strong people skills.

Cons – Long hours, hard to hear no 30 times a day.

Advice to Senior Management – Good system exists. Successful, driven individuals can do very well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Southwestern Advantage

Pros – You really get to develop communication, sales, and interpersonal skills.

Cons – LONGGG hours and no personal time.

Advice to Senior Management – I really liked all the motivation and feedback on performance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Southwestern Advantage

Pros – -Chance to make a lot of money in a small amount of time
-Great training for free
-Good networking
-Great people

Cons – Everything depends upon the group you are recruited in. You can still make a lot of money in a negative group, but there is less of chance you will want to come back. Or you can make close to nothing and want to come back if you had a group of really encouraging people surrounding you.

Advice to Senior Management – Their going in a good direction.

Former Employee – worked at Southwestern Advantage

Pros – Go out of the comfort zone.
Learn to manage your emotions.
Learn the core values such as "service attitude"
Self leadership

Cons – Physically demanding.
Not very safe.
You have to really work hard to make a profit
Not a job for everyone.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure interns get selling permit before they head off to work.
Work to provide guarantees for interns' in terms of their safety.

Former Employee – worked at Southwestern Advantage

Pros – the potential to earn a lot of money really fast is probably the best reason
management positions later in your career

Cons – there is a lot of controversy as far as how the company has treated its "employees" whom are independent contractors

Advice to Senior Management – they have been doing this for a long time, so i trust they know what they are doing. but they need to be more open

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Southwestern Advantage

Pros – Hardest but most rewarding experience of my life

Cons – Prepare to work 6 days and 80+ hours a week

Advice to Senior Management – Find places for employees to live before putting them in the unknown sales territory

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend