Beware of attractive, but possibly deceptive job ads which offer entry-level training in management, marketing, and sales especially if the ads state no experience required. If you decide to interview with such a company, ask many questions before accepting employment. Will you be paid minimum wage or commission? Are there company benefits such as health insurance? Will you be required to use your car with no expense reimbursement on a daily basis to do your job?
Beware of invitations for an all-day second "interview". If you decide to go to the second "interview", wear comfortable shoes as you will be doing lots of walking trying to sell door-to-door.
Read and judge for yourself:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/directory/northeast-consulting.aspx
http://freethebasement.blogspot.com/2009/03/job-searching-marketing-scams-and-you.html
Searching for "real" information about NEC Inc. in Braintree, MA or NEC Inc Boston is difficult due to the commonality of the name as the original NEC (Nippon Electric Company) name is famous for the Japanese multinational information technology company, www.nec.com. What is NEC short for? The company website has no "About" page and there is explanation of the company name. A Google search of "NEC Inc Braintree MA complaints" developed NEC's former name was Boston Solutions International (BSI Boston). As commonly found, Cydcor affiliates create bad reputations wherever they set up offices.
A Google search: "NEC Inc Braintree MA scam" found a listing which explains NEC is North East Consulting.
Mar 9, 2009 ... After all, googling "Northeast Consulting, Inc + Scam" turned up nothing. ...iteration that comes from 100 grossman ave, braintree, ma. ...
freethebasement.blogspot.com/.../job-searching-marketing-scams-and-you.
Use your browser's (Internet Explorer, Safari, FireFox) Edit Find and search for BSI Boston
BSI Boston is now going under the name Northeast Consulting – BEWARE. ..... Hey has anyone heard of Northeast consulting based out of Braintree, MA? ...
www.onedayonejob.com/jobs/the-landers-group
NEC's former name Business Solution International (BSI Boston)
BRAINTREE, MA, November 26, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Business Solutions International (BSI Boston), a leading outsourced sales and marketing company in the Boston area
http://www.bsiboston.com/
Domain name: bsiboston.com (domain name has been resold since given up by Cydcor affiliate)
Creation date: 06 Apr 2010
The website's Welcome paragraph states that NEC Incorporated was established in 2001 and NEC opened an office in Braintree, MA in 2008, yet the domain name necincorporated.com was created on May 6, 2010. Very interesting.
Domain Name: NECINCORPORATED.COM
Created on..............: 2010-05-06
NEC Incorporated
100 Grossman Dr. Suite #200
Braintree, MA 02184
(781) 794-3200
HR@NECInternational.com
http://www.necinternational.com/
https://twitter.com/necintl
https://www.facebook.com/NECInternational
Domain Name: NECINTERNATIONAL.COM
Created on 2012-12-18
hr@necincorporated.com
http://necincorporated.com/
http://necincorporated.com/
Welcome
Established in 2001, NEC Incorporated is a privately owned direct sales and marketing company. We are the smile and hand shake for corporate giants, who traditionally use print and indirect forms of marketing to reach small-to-medium size businesses. In 2008, due to client opportunities in Eastern Massachusetts, NEC Incorporated opened an office in Braintree, MA. NEC Incorporated currently has 40 employees at this location and our long term goal is to keep expanding!
Facebook NEC Inc (Braintree, MA)
A Google search for "NEC Inc" found no listings in NEC's company list of served markets.
As previously stated a Google search will usually bring up NEC the Japanese high-tech company.
http://necincorporated.com/goals
Our goal at NEC is to keep expanding. We currently serve markets in: Boston, Massachusetts, Pennsauken, New Jersey, San Francisco, California, San Diego, California, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We will expand to all markets our clients serve.
NEC's job postings on CareerBuilder.com include "Health Benefits".
What does that mean? Is health benefits the same as health insurance?
Job Requirements
Our company believes that strength comes from ORGANIC GROWTH, meaning we will never hire anyone directly into management. Every manager, assistant manager, human resource manager, and trainer in our company has held every position of every person they manage.
Since opening our doors in 2001, we have expanded to have 7 offices nationwide and plan to double again in the next few years. In order to meet these expansion goals while at the same time maintaining our philosophy of 100% internal, merit-based promotion, we provide all new hires an opportunity to advance to management in a matter of months -- not years.
Benefits Include:
High Energy Working Environment
Health Benefits [Really?]
Rapid Advancement Opportunities
Pay based on Individual Performance [Commission Pay]
I was contacted by this company and I setup an interview. I am an out of state resident seeking employment in the Boston area. Is it in my best interest to tell them that I am not longer interested in coming in for an interview?
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Brandon
Brandon did you go to the interview? was it a scam? I have an interview with them tomorrow, should I blow it off? Please call me at 781 718 1094. would love to hear your experience. And the writer of this blog please contact me as well and or email me at bobbyhurleyjr@gmail.com to confirm that i shouldnt go to the interview tomorrow
ReplyDeleteI recently went in for an interview at NEC incorporated in Braintree and can confirm this is indeed, a scam... They build you up during the first interview, mention nothing of door to door sales, and then schedule a second interview with you so you can "shadow one of our top account managers during your interview" aka sit through a presentation about how to sell door to door to people....Business ethics is apparently a no go here
ReplyDeleteExactly the same happened to me as to MaterjediB, word by word lol. the difference in my case was that they told me to dress up "business professional", so I did. I even put my flats on in the month of December when it was RAINING. They don't tell anything until you are in a suburban area and start walking door to door. I got my feet soaked and let's forget the fact how pissed I was for wasting my entire day.
ReplyDeleteThe job was just not for me because I don't want to sell Verizon products and benefit such a huge corporate devil
Wow, thanks for this post.
ReplyDeleted2d is not for everyone. its for the strong and hard working individuals that want to be successful. success doesnt come to you, you go got it.
ReplyDeleteNo, dipshit. d2d/mlm is for strong and hardworking individuals who like to work long, unreasonable hours, only to be paid a pathetic commission that won't even be enough to pay for your internet bill.
Deleteif you don't sell anything.
DeleteThis company is built on Farce! Shady and deceptive. If they would just be honest and say "hey we're a network marketing/MLM trying to cover as a Consulting Group" then people could decide upfront if they wanna waste their day going on a fake interview with a MLM company.
DeleteIf it's for strong hardworking people... Why not weed out the weak and tell everyone who goes in for an interview that it is Door to door? I have a theory, because no person in their right mind would do such a unrewarding job.... any job post saying "entry level sales/marketing" is 90% of the time an absolute JOKE
Deletewell said clyde , but d2d weeds out the weak individuals who will never run their own offices, in fact they will never run their own business no matter what industry it is in. They cant handle hard work then how can they run their own business?? have fun working when us entraprenuers are taking days off at will
ReplyDeleteWow. Thank you for creating this blog, and thanks to everyone who commented here--I was about to take the afternoon off from work tomorrow to meet for an interview with NEC; glad I won't be doing that now.
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you, thank you.
.Thank you for this blog! As for clyde82 and okcboi, it has nothing to do withthe fact that it is d2d. It has to do with their deceptive practices in the way they present themselves as management/marketing. Why do you need to be shady? Clearly it is not a good company to work for if they cannot be up front and honest.
ReplyDeleteLet's get this straight. This place is a crock of sh!t. I've never felt so fooled in my entire life as I did going here. I mean, let me be honest here. I'm not exactly the most desirable employee to hire. This should've been the first thing that popped in my head to realize this was a sham. They were COMPLETELY ready to hire me when i had open cases and warrants out for my arrest. Both of which I was not aware of at the time, but they were there. Also, the fact that everything they said to me sounded precisely scripted and like a robot was speaking to me. Then of course was the gased up interview making you believe you are so fit for the job. Then, even more fun, the shadowing the "top account manager". Now I don't wanna offend the guy cause personally he wasn't a bad guy, but he was such a tool. Another one gasing up NEC Inc. He went into great detail explaining to me how much money I'll make and how awesome this opportunity is, oh and don't forget Thursday Office Fun Night! I spent 9 hours driving around Framingham with this guy, going door to door, and he didn't sell anything until the last proposal of the day and honestly the only reason this guy bought was I think he felt bad that this guy looked like a total failure to someone he was training. Bottom line, don't waste your time, unless door to door sales is your thing and you're into sneaky companies.
ReplyDeletep.s. if you look through their "spotlight" section, you can CLEARLY see that some of the photos are photoshopped to make it appear that people were at a certain location. Word to the wise NEC: If you wanna make fake pictures and con people into believing you are real, at least find someone that doesn't suck at photoshopping pics!
FYI This company is now in CT and calling themselves...NCG inc (Located in Trumbull, CT). Northeast Consulting Group. I go in for my interview dressed Super Business Professional and enter into a room of about 5 or 6 other people also waiting to be interviewed? Immediately looks like Network Marketing. The clown next to me was dressed in cargo pants, boots and a white dress shirt like he flopped straight outta high school and into this office. Once I saw that I knew this company was a f'n joke. They wasted 15 minutes of my time to tell some stupid bulls**t about how their clients are Verizon, Best Buy, T-mobile and AT&T and how they go around trying to buy biz customers out of their cell phone contracts. I'm glad I didn't get fooled into their "2nd interview". Judging from your comments this is where they waste your entire day and send you on a wild goose chase with an idiot who claims to be a top sales rep. I have no problem with 'outside sales' because it can be one of the highest paid professions. I do have a problem with a COMPANY that HIDES WHAT THEY DO, WHO THEY ARE, and most importantly HOW YOU GET PAID! Not once did they mention to me how I would get paid, how much I would get paid or if it was a Salary or Commission position. They asked me to come back in for a 2nd round interview where they would "take me out to lunch" and show me the whole compensation plan. If you're reading this and you have an interview scheduled with these clowns cancel that sh*t right now and tell them to GET LOST!!!!
ReplyDeleteHad an interview Tuesday. After reading this, I'm definitely not going anymore. They seemed so nice too, what a shame
ReplyDeleteI have an interview tomorrow for the "Account Manager" position and after reading all of these comments and posts, I am certainly not going anymore. Ditto to MikeCo - they seemed like nice people on the phone. Too bad nowadays that those looking for a better job (no matter their education/status/etc.) only get responses from companies like these 9x out of 10, clouding up their inbox. Alas...keep chugging along...
ReplyDelete*****ABSOLUTE WASTE OF TIME*****Amanda, the desk receptionist, will start by telling you they would love for you to come in for an interview. You'll go in and everyone will be nice as pie and they will suck you in for a second interview where you will actually go out with one of the "account managers" aka SALES REP (boring!!!). If by some chance like myself you choose to accept there offer to come work for them after the 2nd interview, you will be invited to the "impact room" where all they do is play stupid warmup games in the morning to attempt to get your mind off the fact that you will be alone for the rest of the day going business to business selling office supplies. They claim they are a marketing company but all in all they are simply looking for sales rep. What they fail to leave out is that they make you use your own vehicle to drive to your location where you will go B2B and attempt to make sales. They claim they give you all of these awesome bonuses seeing as how they start you off as commission, and in the end the bonuses are miserable because they fail to tell you you are not eligible for them until 6 weeks. Basically you use up your whole gas tank each day and race around hoping to make one sale for a box of pens where your commission is $1.00 yayyyyy! My first week there I went on a business trip to Vermont. First off they put you up in a Econo Lodge, a dump, AND they make you share a bed with someone. Maybe im being blunt here, but sleeping in the same bed with another person you just met isn't exactly comfortable. They give you no warnings whatsoever. The people there are extremely nice which was why it was so tough to ignore the position being offered. However spending money to go to work was just wrong. Not to mention your working 13 hour days for basically nothing. The thing that got me the most irritated was that once you get your first "promotion" to trainer, in the trainer only meetings the boss (not to mention names) will hound you to make sure when your training a new person that you act like its the best day ever. Sorry but when i was told that I wanted to just get up and leave. Everything there was phony and none of it was glamorous. If you don't want to waste your time DO NOT go to the interview. You have been warned. Happy job hunting.
ReplyDeleteNotice how the management team changes every so often. James was the president when I interviewed, and Amanda was a customer service specialist or something, now she's a HR director yet still works the front desk? What about the other women that were on the management team that disappeared?? Hmmmmm...
ReplyDeleteSame approach was used on me. I won't be going to the 1st interview I was scheduled for this morning. Thanks for the heads up...I knew I should have listened to my gut in the first place when the contact person who called me wouldn't give me any specifics about the pay/salary. What a joke. It proves the old saying...if it looks too good to be true...basically you're being scammed.
ReplyDeleteI have an interview tomorrow with them, thanks to you guys I am so not going. I appreciate it, sucks I got my hopes up though, and I actually have a credible background. SMH
ReplyDeleteWhat a lifesaver! This blog post literally just saved me so much trouble. I've been contacted by them 3 times to set up an interview. Thank goodness I googled them and this blog came up! Sorry to anyone who was fooled by them before seeing this blog.
ReplyDeleteI went to the interview just to hone my interview skills since i already knew what was going on. as a result, i ended up interviewing the interviewer which he was a cocky twenty five year pitching lies to me like already knew...lol
ReplyDeleteTheir main page says "NEC is growing-fast."
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