ActionLink Reviews

Pros

Convenient scheduele. Available managers. Good communication with employees.

Cons

Not enough work hours available.

Pros

You are in charge of certain areas, work independently and basically working in the field

Cons

Takes some time to communicate with supervisors or get a response back from project leaders because they may not be located in your city/state.

Pros

Action Link pays extremely well. I was on the LG program with previous experience and was paid 20$ an hour, though I did negotiate.

Cons

Inconsistent hours. some months great others. 8 hours a week.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep communication open.

Pros

- Decent pay
- Flexibility of project times
- Pay register system that tells you hours worked for each project

Cons

- Very inconsistent work schedules
- Lack of training modules for projects

Advice to Senior Management

Improve the ActionLink community training site.

Pros

Part-time, flexible. Immediate supervisor was very nice but a bit scatterbrained. I don't think she let HR know that I quit.

Cons

Very disorganized. I put in a month notice to quit since i was moving out of state. I moved then I kept getting emails from higher management that I was a no call no show. I had to email them several times to let them know I no longer work for the company. This went on for about a year. Very bizarre.

Pros

You get to make your hours, they compensate you for gas, tolls, and pages you print out, management is very understanding and nice.

Cons

not a lot of hours in the off season, sometimes the servers might go down and job opportunities aren't pushed to you.

Pros

-Ability to manage and measure self against individuals across the nation in the same field and program.
-Flexibility to visit stores at your convenience (although preferred during non-busy hours and finished by Thursday).
-Provide focused customer enticement and excitement to represented products and services
-Enhanced consumer solutions without attachments
-Great pay
-Part time

Cons

-Inconsistent messages from management.
-Upward mobility is limited
-Generally seasonal/part time work
-Work can be at times lopsided with large projects

Advice to Senior Management

-Senior management to visit markets to encourage feedback 1:1 with field representatives and to bounce ideas to see what could/would make for implementation of an idea to make employees be part of the company. Valuable insight is seen out in the field, not in an office setting.
-Senior management to present a brief internal presentation of yearly assessment of how the company, the outlook, and how the market will fare. This will make the employee feel connected to the company and how the employee make an impact rather than be on the sidelines.
-Field representatives do not know anybody above their direct manager. It would be nice to have a organizational chart of management and brief description of job function with a name and/or picture.

Pros

Easy job with little to no management directive or communication on a daily basis
Working with retailers and customers are always enjoyable

Cons

Asked to work over 40 hours without being paid overtime.
No real Benefits
Limited Adtvancement opportunities
Lack of communication to field employees
Everything last minute (Very disorganized)
Pay is below average

Advice to Senior Management

Get organized and consistent with each employee, help work with field staff to resolve issues to improve sales, rather than be afriad to bring it up to the client because you dont want to look like you are unorganized. They just took all there full time exempt employees to non exempt , but now tell each employee job needs to be done but no overtime given. So we are forced to lie and say we did not work overtime and managers are aware that you are doing this. Benefits with this company are a joke, you would be better off buying insurance on your own. Little to no advancement and communication of changes, strategies or direction given, implemented or flawlessly executed

Pros

I enjoyed working for ActionLink while I was in college because I was able to work weekends (primarily Saturday and Sunday) at a pretty sweet wage.

Cons

The reports every night were VERY time consuming, fuel reimbursement was a joke (I never was compensated for traveling to a city outside my work zone after multiple attempts at submitting the proper paperwork), and don't even think about moving up in this company. Although I would go the extra mile to cover jobs no one else wanted to "help out", it ended up screwing me out of the position I was hired for and it payed a much lower rate ($4/hour less!). After 4 years of never being offered a FT position or even a promotion, I finally went to a better company which gave me more hours, but a lower pay rate. At least I don't have to worry about the buggy report system or driving all over Ohio.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your dependable workers better. Don't take advantage of your them by giving them the lesser-paying merchandising jobs when they were hired for product demonstrating and then turn around to give their work to newer employees. Additionally, when you offer to pay mileage when someone from Kentucky covers an AWOL employee in Dayton, make sure you actually reimburse them for the mileage. I was there for 4+ years. I received fantastic feedback from customers and account managers, was scouted by the management of several accounts (but would not take the jobs b/c it was a conflict of interest), and was never offered any sort of promotion. I was so under-appreciated that I took a job that pays $4/hr less at a competitive company.

Pros

The management team had excellent communication between the employees.

Cons

The only downside was that the program was very short.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work.