New work, would you accept it?
@majuuyaitai22 (93)
Philippines
August 23, 2012 5:37am CST
Good day mylotters! I am a fresh graduate and I have applied to this company. It is a local call center position which is an outbound one. I am having a hard time to decide if I would go on and take this job. Can you help me? These are the things that they implement and these are the thing that confuse me too. The company is far from us which has an hour traveling period from our house and way back home, and it is exceptional and can exceed up to 2 hours if there is a heavy traffic. On the other hand, the starting point is training days. It would take 17 days in their training which has an allowance of 200 a day, it's a Philippine peso, not a dollar, in our country it's not that big. After that training days, there will be your resting period which actually DOES NOT HAVE A SALARY. it is COMMISSION BASED job. So, if you do not have confirmed deal you would not earn money, and after resting period FOR 3 MONTHS, that's the only time that you'll be a PROBATIONARY which has the fix and basic salary. So what you think guys? Should I accept it or just look and apply for different job?
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7 responses
@Citizen_Stuart (2016)
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23 Aug 12
I have to disagree with you about that. Too many graduates sit around waiting for the ideal job to come along, and next thing they know they've been unemployed for a couple of years or more. Having a job doesn't preclude looking for a better job while you're doing it, and it at least puts money in the bank and adds some experience onto your CV.
@vijayroy (212)
• India
23 Aug 12
Yeah, but if you are looking for money you can go and your point also correct, but I am telling that I thought like you only and entered into one company and I am not satisfied with that job, now I am trying to change my domain it will be very big deal. But if you are interested in that you can join and concentrate on that field.
@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
23 Aug 12
It depends on your career plans, and your time frame. The way I see it, you'll already be spending 5 months and still be on probationary when the same amount of time would have spent in another company which only have a month to go before you regularization. Sometimes, work deals may sound bad but only to those who know that they're not made for it. But if this is the industry where you excel very well, then maybe you're looking to a very good career start and proper training and exposure.
@majuuyaitai22 (93)
• Philippines
23 Aug 12
That's exactly what I am thinking of. I am not in fond of following where is my field, I just want to get a job, a stable job. And aside from that, it is an insurance company dealing with credit card holders. It looks like it is hard to sell because there are lot of insurances out there. You have to be productive also to make money. And I think the period that I would use in this company, I might find other stale job out there.
@silverfox09 (4708)
• United States
26 Aug 12
A lot of these call centre are American company and they set up local branches is third world country and pay peanut . If you were in America you would be paid a lot more .
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
24 Aug 12
The one thing that I think is very important to keep in mind when it comes to this kind of work is that call center work is not something that works for everyone. For example, I am not good at working in a call center as I did work in a small one when I was in college.
If you think that this might be something that would be difficult for you, then I would say to look for a different job that was closer to home and also had a more guaranteed pay rate.
@riyauro (6421)
• India
23 Aug 12
I think you can try to start here but keep your options right. I hope there is no bond. You might want to go for a salaried job of course. It is very hard to work in the call center where you are based on commission. There are people working in call centers who are not graduate. Please apply for other jobs. You will get one soon. thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead. 
@gnlaser (31)
• China
24 Aug 12
hey my friend, i have the same situation with you
if you have decide what to do and make sure the general direction is right. Then,just do it. But if you have no better choice or have no other way to make money, you have accept it in this case. so, my suggestion is making a decission base on your plan or good ability.
I have the same situation with you . I am not saticfied with the situation, but i need think over the ability and way that i can do to make money to live.
Thus, before you make a decission, just think whether you have other way to make money in your style if you have no job
best wishes, my friends
@Citizen_Stuart (2016)
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23 Aug 12
I suppose it depends on whether you think you've got a chance of being good at that particular kind of work. It's not for everyone, and from my own experience call centres tend to have a very high staff turnover rate. At least you'd be earning steadily during the training period, and by the end of it you should have a better idea of whether this job's for you.
