UniFirst Employee Reviews about "great training"

Pros

Always looking fo future leaders. Great place to work if you want to advance and they do all the training.

Cons

Long hours but that is any job where you succeed.

Pros

1) Detailed training program that provides knowledge and skills that are transferable to the sales position 2) Managers who have succeeded in the positions they are now supervising 3) Competitive base pay and benefits 4) Friendly and energetic office culture 5) Room for growth

Cons

None thus far If you do not have a strong work ethic it might seem tough

Pros

The training is very thorough and top notch if you've been through a corporate training session. The goals are extremely lax and the ramp-up is extremely fair. The ability to seek out info is somewhat readily available as well.

Cons

Archaic and old, the management is a bunch of dinosaurs. The team mentality and positive vibes required to be successful in sales doesn't exist. Technology is at least a decade old, the processes are even older. The principles that Aldo founded this company on don't exist anymore. The fundamentals are just plain missing. *****If you read all the other negative reviews you'll see the theme**********

Pros

Great leadership and management team. There are plenty of opportunities for advancement. UniFirst has given me excellent support and has helped advance my career.The training and tools are outstanding.

Cons

The CRM had issues for a short period of time but the glitches appeared to have been resolved.

Pros

Great company culture. This job gives you a lot of freedom, so if you do not have the drive to work then you will not do good. What you put in you will get out. This is my first sales job and I think the overall training is really great. I have gained lifelong skills that I can take with me wherever I go. Also, able to move up within the company if you are willing to move.

Cons

It is really frustrating that the company does not invest into any marketing. All of our leave behinds look like they are from the 80's.

Pros

UniFirst provides the opportunity needed to get started in outside sales. The training provided is excellent and it gives you to tools you need to be successful. You will go through the entire sales cycle from prospect to customer in all sales you make. There is no place that will top the experience that you will receive at UniFirst.

Cons

The only con would be that if you are not a self starter, driven and motivated for success then UniFirst is not the place for you. If you have all of those traits then this is the place to be!

Pros

Management is very supportive upward mobility in the company is very possible benefits, work life balance and team structure is outstanding I have worked for 3 fortune 1000 companies and UniFirst offers the best sales training for development management cares about your well being and career path

Cons

I have nothing negative to say about the company

Pros

UniFirst provides a top notch training program and offers a very fun and competitive atmosphere. Very reputable company providing a wide array of services to all business types. Team lead by great upper management and very helpful.

Cons

No concerns at company, very happy.

Pros

Good sales training material and now I'm just trying to fill a 20 word minimum

Cons

Poor training execution. Where to begin? You spend the first month in endless over crowded video conferences upwards of 30 people which vidicon cant support (which is spotty to say the least) with the corporate trainer in Boston making coaching impossible. The main problems with Unifirst are as follows. 1) They've just introduced cloud based CRM software (SalesLogix) but only have one application server to support everyone on it. They spent one can only imagine how much money on purchasing the sales force iPads, but didn't do the ground work to support it, and none of their systems have been integrated. They use CRM as a report card and general as it is not a use sales tool. Now that's not to say SalesLogix itself isn't great, bit since it's not supported it creates a lot of redundancies and rework. It's not uncommon to be down all day preventing you from entering in your activities. Unifirst is well aware of this issue, and when I asked what they'd like me to do after spending far too much time on the phone with it, my sales manager suggested I take it home and enter it in on my home computer. Seeing as how I already work a MANDATORY 10 hour work day I politely declined, which was not received well. 2) Speaking of system integration. I literally mean there is none. They have two desktops per sales office which have lotus notes. But, on the iPad itself, the calendar that's most beneficial to use on the road as you can schedule alarms for to do items and appointments are of course not synced to lotus notes. So whatever your sales manager schedules for you in lotus notes you better not forget to put it in the iPad calendar. Then you have the CRM calendar where they want you to schedule your appointments so it shows up on their reports and do you think that calendar is synced with anything else? So now we're at 3 calendars they expect you to manage. But don't forget, because they themselves know their systems are so shoddy, they want you to keep up with a paper planner as we'll. And of course let's not forget the calendar they expect to be filled out on your own time for you weekly plan which is the only thing they know how to use a spreadsheet for. 3) Carbon copy order forms. That should speak for itself. Folders for even the smallest accounts take about an hour, which again should be done on your own time. I could accept the fact that they don't have the money or ware withal to creat a software to input the data, but really? Corporate can't make this a spreadsheet? 4) The GM broke a plastic piece of our conference table in a sales meeting because a coworker asked a "stupid question." My advise? If you left the 90's with rest of the world run away and never look back...

Pros

Training program is great and will set a foundation for your future with better company.

Cons

Maximum micromanaging by incompetent leadership. Take note of the comments that come from management on this site. It’s a well worded and canned response from someone who is praying for a better opportunity to arise.