Be wary if you decide to take on these guys.
Despite the ads they put out (I responded to an ad for an insurance underwriter position) their breadwinner is recruiting people to B2b sales role. I highly doubt they have anything else on offer. Alot of people don't realise these roles are highly volatile, usually with fairly difficult sales targets and partly or wholly commission based. A sales manager i spoke to said "i'll bring in 10 guys and in six months 2 will still be here". Prograd tells you all the great things about the sales jobs but none of the bad.
When they initially call you for screening (in which the recruiter decides on the spot to invite you in for the assessment centre, without any formal process) they will pressure you into agreeing to consider b2b sales roles; the very first question i was asked was 'would you consider b2b sales?" and when I said that's not what i applied for the recruiter responded 'but you would consider it, wouldn't you??" in way to suggest if i didn't i wouldnt be considered for the job i wanted.
The assessment centre is similar to what other companies themselves will hold for hiring grads, and it's good practice. They invite in reps from some of the companies to assess you. Most of the activities aren't really scrutinised though, with exception to a speech you make in front of the company reps (the question for which is on why you want to work in b2b sales of course).
At the end of the assessments they inform the 'successful candidates' in front of the entire group, which they say is so that you aren't left hanging for ages but in reality its just to prop your confidence so you don't go looking elsewhere for jobs. I spoke to some of the 'unsuccessful' candidates' and they said a recruiter pulled them aside and told them they had something for them too, which one can argue adds is just a confidence propping tactic.
At first you're inundated with calls from recruiters who seemingly don't know another has called you, again i think done to boost your confidence and expectations. I found out this was a ploy when I rang one to find out if i'd been successful for a role after a week of not hearing anything; the recruiter responded "oh uh I thought the other recruiter would have told you, you wereN't successful"
The role i had originally applied for suddenly 'was filled internally" and i was carted off to sales jobs.
They offered me interviews at big name companies at first, but after I wasn't successful at these they started offering me less pleasant roles (a maternity contract role processing sales orders). I also got the feeling that they channelled candidates to job with employers who are big customers with them rather than jobs that are right for the candidate; two of my applications seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet once i accepted an interview for a company who hired their team solely from Prograd
In summary, I think that if you really want a sales job there are no shortage of the positions and you can get them without giving many thousands of dollars to PG via the fees they charge companies to place you (they don't tell you this of course).
If you don't want a sales role or don't have any prior experience don't bother, you will inevitably get put into unpleasant jobs with no progession prospects read more
