Stay away from Culver Careers (S. California)

[Lewis the Pike]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How could any decent person whose been through ERAC actually refer people there? I wouldn't refer my worst enemy to ERAC.

uhhh the same way we sold DW....$ someone's gotta eat. If they could find a job that made the same pay and didn't have to challange their ethics, likely they'd take it.

First of all, everyone has different experiences with different companies. I currently work at Enterprise and got my job through Culver and I LOVE IT. I've been with ERAC for about two years and you know what? Culver didn't feed me any BS lines about this place. They told me the truth right down to the hours I'd be working and that I'd do some car washing. It's not all fun and games, no job ever is, but it was a better opportunity with more room for growth than any other places I was getting interviews with at the time. Also remember, a handful of people within a company don't set the tone for the entire company.

[Frank the Tank]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

First of all, everyone has different experiences with different companies. I currently work at Enterprise and got my job through Culver and I LOVE IT. I've been with ERAC for about two years and you know what? Culver didn't feed me any BS lines about this place. They told me the truth right down to the hours I'd be working and that I'd do some car washing. It's not all fun and games, no job ever is, but it was a better opportunity with more room for growth than any other places I was getting interviews with at the time. Also remember, a handful of people within a company don't set the tone for the entire company.

What fantasy branch do you work in? It is the whole company they are ALL scumbags.

Thanks for saving me some time by not going further with the application process!
Before I apply for a job now i google the following:
"working at (company name) sucks."
This often reveals some interesting background from the inside.
I did the same with Terminix. That was interesting alright.

Culver doesn't represent ONLY Enterprise Rentals, they recruit for every shitty sales job in San Diego. The more they tell you how fantastic an opportunity is, the faster you should run; a truly good job sells itself.

Culver sent me on three interviews. The first was for an "Enrollment Advisor" job for some third-rate online college called Ashford University. Turns out the Enrollment Advisor job was just glorified telemarketing and paid less than $40k. I was talking to some of them employees out on smoke break as I was leaving; they all hated working there. They said they spent their days trying to convince dumbasses who don't want to talk to them to go to their crappy college. If you don't enroll X amount of students, eventually you get fired. That doesn't sound like an Enrollment Advisor to me. I told Culver, "No thanks. I didn't go to grad school to be a telemarketer."

Then Culver set me up with a copy machine company (I think it was Canon) as a sales rep. I went and talked to the guy and he said it was door-to-door sales and they don't provide leads. You're supposed to drive all over town, just walk into an office un-announced, and ask if they want to buy a copier. I said most places have signs that say "No Soliciters" and the guy told me their reps just ignore those. Again, Culver, no thanks.

[Cynical]

Originally Posted by Culver sucks

Culver doesn't represent ONLY Enterprise Rentals, they recruit for every shitty sales job in San Diego. The more they tell you how fantastic an opportunity is, the faster you should run; a truly good job sells itself.

Culver sent me on three interviews. The first was for an "Enrollment Advisor" job for some third-rate online college called Ashford University. Turns out the Enrollment Advisor job was just glorified telemarketing and paid less than $40k. I was talking to some of them employees out on smoke break as I was leaving; they all hated working there. They said they spent their days trying to convince dumbasses who don't want to talk to them to go to their crappy college. If you don't enroll X amount of students, eventually you get fired. That doesn't sound like an Enrollment Advisor to me. I told Culver, "No thanks. I didn't go to grad school to be a telemarketer."

Then Culver set me up with a copy machine company (I think it was Canon) as a sales rep. I went and talked to the guy and he said it was door-to-door sales and they don't provide leads. You're supposed to drive all over town, just walk into an office un-announced, and ask if they want to buy a copier. I said most places have signs that say "No Soliciters" and the guy told me their reps just ignore those. Again, Culver, no thanks.

Damn how amazingly similiar to my experiences dealing with Culver. I actually took a job through them as an enrollment advisor with University of Phx, I was initially told a starting salary of $38K, but when my first check came in it was much lower than that, I woulda been making less than $30K, my fault for not inssiting on a formal offer, so I walked that day. Then culver called me said they were sorry for the misunderstanding and had me interview with some hack packaging company as a B2B sales rep. I show up 15 minutes early per interview protocol, and they guy doesn't even talk to me til 40 minutes after our appointment was scheduled. People get busy I didn't think it was that big of a deal so I let it slide, then before the guy asks me three questions he picks up his phone twice and is interupted by his manager they have a 15 minute conversation while I'm sitting there about raking some poor sap over the coals and firing some employee. When the manager left the room, I told him this is a unprofessional environment and I have no interest in continuing the interview. So I walked out. I told culver what happened and they didn't hear a word of it. Two weeks later I found out they sent two of my friends to the same company and both of them had the exact same experience with interview.