
Is this a trick or treat?
Recruiter phoned me just today, scheduling a next day job interview. Salary starting @ 40,000-60,000. Job description is to explain & assist healthcare/insurance application to employees. Question asked: Do I have a car? Recruiter told me to dress formal, bring 2 references' name & #, my resume & expect to be in interview for 2 hours and it will be intense. I was thrilled. . . .until recollectin'my memory of last summer . I had 1 crappy experience with SAME Insurance agency. Recruiter did not mention I'd be in a session with 20 additional job seekers listening to some guy standing before us all as he make his looong, drawn out presentation about how to earn soooo much money and make it to the top! He chats and demonstr8 using slide show. Someone's cell ph may vibrate and he scolds them. No one is dressed in formal attire. "Interview" goes beyond 2 hours. No refreshments. No h2o. The speaker stated "Ask NO Questions until after the entire presention. HE TALK, TALK, TALK. He makes a plain statement that everyone will not get the job. I stood up to excuse myself from the group and he went off. I stated 'I was headed to the restrm'. (....and will not be back. WHAT A WAIST OF TIME, GAS & CASH y'kno I'm starving by now!) I don't think I was employed at that time and I am certainly not losing money on that joke of a job. I would have to drive my vehicle to various county residences who are employed. Not my forte.

Always stay away from those "insurance" jobs. A get-rich-quick scheme. It is a shame that people actually take those positions and hate their lives afterwards and are told that their income is based only on commission. Yeah, kinda scary.
Wow, Judy, that sounds like a terrible experience! Unfortunately the insurance industry has been tapped a little by Multi-Level Marketing schemes, and that is what your experience sounds like to me. If they were asking you to invest in the job, I'm pretty sure it was one of those schemes. I don't think MLMs are jobs because they require you to pay so much up front and continuously, so I absolutely don't blame you for not wanting to stay involved!