Job is advertised as “Account Executive” when they fly you out for the monthly new hire trainings ( which was the first red flag ) you find your job is actually “ University Development Counselor” with a different job description than the one posted on Indeed. Brian will stand up there talk for a hour about all the hookers and drug addicts that got saved because the school was built. You have to do the job of event planner, recruiter, admissions counselor, enrollment services and advising. You are expected to get 28 enrollments the first year and once you’ve done that you can level up through 5 levels with increasing quotas and pay much like an MLM. Real Universities do not run an MLM to get enrollment, people apply because of the education they will receive not because someone convinced them to apply. GCU has lawsuits for not disclosing the cost of attendance, that should make you run immediately. You are expected to find or make up 10 events a month and call over 100 people a week which they track along with your location. Some managers actually had events lined up for their UDC, others did not and you’re left to build everything from the ground up because there’s no hand off from the last UDC in your region. The equal pay is another terrible concept, 75k in Indiana is not the same as 75k in New York. There is no upward movement available unless your regional leaves and if there is a regional open they give it to the person who had the most enrollments regardless of their ability to manage a team, my manager was 25, had 12 more years of work experience so I ended up receiving two other job offers within 4 months of starting that both offered a 10k salary increase as a manager, something I would have had to wait at least 2 years for in my role at GCU. If you are smart you will smell the BS immediately, do yourself a favor and work for a real university.
