Glad I did it would never do it again - Clothier Tom James Company Employee Review

3.0
Jun 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Coming out of college, Tom James provides the best training for a young person entering the workforce. The trips I won were incredible as were the colleagues I met on them from around the world. Sales and leadership training were constant, we were always being pushed to be our best and to help the people under us. I will take these lessons with me wherever I chose to work and I am so grateful for them.

Cons

I worked 24/7 and had no personal life or if I did my sales struggled. Once I left I realized how culty the company was -- they normalized constant anxiety and if you could barely pay your bills that was your own fault. I'm not saying there wasn't a support system I am just saying the support system was very culty. If you have been there for over a year, you are basically forced into leadership where you have to give up clients and referrals and take on an insane workload whether you were ready for that or not. President's club is the main goal for new people and that's around $65,000/year and the average time to hit that is 3 years . Some people hit it 1 year but not many so be prepared to make $35,000 your first year.

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Tom James Company Response
5y
Thanks for taking the time to share your perspective! We're so glad your time here help you develop skills and habits that will help you in your life and career, although we wish you were still here using them to help us build! Our opportunity, which is more entrepreneurial in nature than most, does have its share of hard work and long hours at certain times and seasons, especially when starting out. It's great that you were able to persevere and build your business up to the level of achieving our trips. There are just a couple of things we'd like to point out from a factual standpoint just for a balanced understanding on a few topics: 1. We don't force anyone into leadership, period. Of our 450 person sales force, approximately 200 are in some form of leadership and 250 are not. While our leadership opportunity is a great career path, it is not for everyone. Our desire is for each Sales Professional to take from the overall opportunity the parts that resonate with them and build in that direction. Those that DO pursue leadership are not required to give up clients or referrals. Giving referrals to new partners to help them start out was part of our training culture up until 2020, but our more recent investment in a lead development strategy leveraging a sales engagement platform and a few premium prospecting tools has allowed us to support new partners' lead generation needs without leaders providing their referrals. 2. Our average 1st year income is $52,000. Average 2nd year income is $65,000. Average 3rd year is $78,000. What is missing from the above review is sales bonuses for exceeding quota and base pay support through our training assistance pay program for those who struggle a little more out of the gates. Also, leadership pay and other forms of income for 2nd and 3rd year partners as they develop their careers beyond sales are missing from above. From a pure commissions standpoint, the numbers are accurate, but in terms of actual incomes, what was posted is not the actual reality. Outside of those couple of clarifiers, again, we're thankful for the review and wish you all the best in your next endeavor!

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Tom James Company Response
1mo
Thank you for taking time to write a thoughtful review! It is important to us that each person at Tom James Company has the opportunity to build a long-term career for himself or herself. Feedback from current and past employees allows us to continue to grow and develop our opportunity for everyone.
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