Chris
Libertyville,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, February 10, 2006
I am a recent college graduate with a bachelors in science and am new at the whole idea of searching for a career. I registered on hotjobs, monster, and careerbuilder, and the same job listings kept coming up, "ENTRY-LEVEL MARKETING/SALES- PRO SPORTS TEAMS". Often posted by the same company up to ten times a day. Careerbuilder.com posted the base salary at $33K-$40K but this is hardly base pay. Being so naive, I thought that this was exactly what I was looking for. The office was in Downer's Grove so I was about 30 miles away but I figured thats fine if I can get an opportunity to work with this company. It was about 3 hours before my interview that I decided to research the company online so I'd have something to show the interviewer I did my research. I looking all around for news articles praising their business or a corporate website. I found no news article anywhere on the internet which is very odd. I visited their website, www.dcadvertisinginc.com, to find some corporate info. Unfortunately, their website consisted of about 3 paragraphs total and it is designed solely for people looking for jobs, not businesses looking for advertisers. The only other website I could find with information on DC advertising was ripoffreport.com. Thank you so much. You guys just saved me an hours of my time and about $20 in gas. The information on here was so helpful. I see know benefit to people on here to post inaccurate or misleading information, but I now see how DC advertising benefits from this. I had a hunch that the job description was too good to be true. I will now be a regular visitor to this site. I'm not so much disappointed in DC advertising. Who I do feel slighted by is careerbuilder.com, hotjobs on yahoo, and monster.com. I thought they had more integrity than to let businesses like these on their website, especially since these types of jobs comprise the first 20 or so results in every search.