Is this company I'm applying to a scam?

Does the company have a name?

Do they sell vacuums, knives, time share condos, or travel coupons? If so, it’s a scam.

You should see how many fake profiles and good reviews I can make for 47K a year.

“What we do”
We provide instant, extensive and hard-hitting sales and marketing campaigns which can provide immediate results using our b2b, b2c, residential, and events based marketing system.

This was on their site.

So, I’d guess it’s something like this…

We have an advertising platform… <blank>Pages!!! It practically sells itself, but we need you, young go-getter!

Your job will be to get 5 people to sign up for <blank>Pages!!! each week using our proven methods. During training on our proven methods you will be paid $8/hr. If you sell to 5 people a week after training, then we will guarantee you will make at least $47,000/yr, maybe more!

If you’re not able to sell 5/wk, then you make $8/hr.

Really want to make the bucks? Bring a friend, and start your downline now!

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The truth is probably the average sales person sells 2/wk, they run them around for a couple weeks, pay them $8/hr, and tell them they aren’t cutting it and don’t really want this hard-hitting opportunity.

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Looking at their website, it’s actually not even that they have the product, their salespeople are their product. They outsource to the people that sell products and send you out to sell them. So it’s like sales, without the product knowledge and with someone taking a cut off the top. They probably give you a quick intro class, some documentation to take home, and then it’s off to sell.

I’d go to the interview and try to figure out their hustle, but the whole thing looks like it’s created to entice young people looking for a first sales job, who don’t know what they’re worth.

It’s going to be sales-based culture all the way down. If you like selling, love competition, and are thinking of getting into sales as a career, it might be a good start. Anything else, it’s probably not worth leaving a job for.

I wasn’t clear. It’s HR Generalist and base salary 47,000. Just an “FYI”

Maybe someone else can explain it better than I am, I apologize.

It’s a recruiting position, in an outsourced sales organization with high turnover.

job duties include

Training employees
Compliance
Recruiting
Interviewing
Hiring
Leadership development
Representing management and employees
Responsibility for atmosphere

Residential? Does that mean you have to go door to door or just cold call people? Either way, it seems like a job that is more like sales instead of actual HR. Of course, you can always go to the interview and find out more.

My last job was at a ponzi scheme home office. If you want to pm me the company website, I can take a look if you like.

It’s an HR position but it feels sketchy to me recruiting for sales jobs such as this. I guess in my gut I’m already turned off by everything but I guess I can return the call just to see

Sent you a PM based on what I found.
I wouldn’t feel comfortable in this position, personally. It’s a revolving door of disappointed people who answered a job ad on Craigslist only to find it’s commission-only door to door sales, with no compensation for travel.

It’s not that easy to figure out if the company is scam or not. I think you should ask the recruitment officer about your job responsibilities and stick to them. And don’t sign any paperwork untill you are clear what your job is going to be