Pros
Good local manager who puts in a lot of effort into training. Strong brand, so people aren't giving out too much on the doors.
Cons
Realistically you won't sell more than 2 alarms per week, and more likely you will sell 1 or none. ask the company for the average sales per rep over the whole country, and you will find it is between 3 and 4 per month. that means you will earn between €450 and €1000 working 5-6 days per week, 8-9 hours per day. That works out at between €2.50 and €5.60 per hour, which is very poor given how hard you work. despite your contract explicitly saying that you cannot cold call after 8.30pm, and you cannot work Sundays, your manager will have you cold calling until 9.00pm (and expect to get abuse from mothers who have just gotten their kids to bed), and you will be pressed to work Sundays. My advice - if you can find no other job to do, take the training for 2-3 weeks, and go get a job with Eir, Imagine or Vodafone who pay a basic and a small amount of commission. they will snap you up.Lots of reps do it, as the training in some offices is quite good. If you get a poor office manager, obviously you'll get poorer training. I know a rep who spend 3 weeks with Phonewatch, and couldn't get one sale on his own, but immediately he started with Imagine, he is making around €20,000 per year, hits his targets for commission, and gets a company van. I spend 2 months with Phonewatch, made just 2 sales on my own (my manager gave me a few sales we made while training, but in total I still had only 5 sales over the 2 months, total earnings = €750, and I took just 2 days off over the two months). I got a job with Eir, company van, and I'm flying it.