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I am sorry you feel the way you do. We ask questions about transportation because there is a lot of driving required in the job. Someone who has a very long commute to and from the office in addition to driving during the day is probably not going to be happy, so we try to avoid those situations up front. It is advertised as an outside sales job, so driving should be expected. Furthermore, we have a very generous reimbursement for automobile expenses. However, it is very infrequent that anybody has to drive 1 ½ hours to see a prospect. We sell almost exclusively in the Washington, DC area from that branch.
We do not generally call interview candidates after the interview appointment has been set to determine if they are qualified. That is the purpose of the interview.
We are not looking for “suckers”. We are just seeking very hard-working individuals who will do a great job communicating with our prospective clients about our services. We have had some individuals who have reached 6 figure incomes in outside sales with us. Did they just sit in the office all day and get paid for doing nothing? No, they really worked very hard. This is not an easy job. It is really hard. For those who work really hard and are good in sales, they can do very well for themselves. Those are the people we want.
Since I did not interview you personally, I do not know about your verbal skills, but I counted 12 errors, not including sentence fragments and punctuation errors in your comments here. Therefore, your written communication skills would be somewhat lacking for the image we wish to portray. I wish you the best of luck in the future.
Joe Beverly, President