Pros
I had to move away for family reasons, and that is the only reason I am not with the company anymore. However, I can say without question this company prepared me for my current job more than I ever thought was happening at the time. The people at the company are driven and highly motivated. Management, although they have high expectations of their employees are always willing to work on solutions to better improving the employment experience for their people as well as helping each person in the company achieve their personal career goals. The manager has weekly accountability meetings with each person, and at first I was terrified of these, but I soon realized that because of the skills the company was helping me develop, I was hitting my goals faster and faster and suddenly these meetings became the highlight of my week! I got to hear about what I was doing well and they gave me a game plan on how to improve my weaknesses for the week. The clients they represent are second to none. Everyone from Management, to administration to account managers, event coordinators and program managers are on the same page as far as goals for growth of the company. I always felt like everyone was invested in my success. The environment is upbeat, and full of young to midlevel professionals with big career goals. It was truly a rewarding BUT challenging experience. I had no sales, marketing or management experience when I started and I currently manage 40 outside sales reps and oversee a marketing team for a big firm, and it only took 3 interviews with one company after we settled in our new home for me to land that job based off of my experience with Connect DFW.
Cons
Like I said, expectations and goals are high, which sometimes creates a stressful day, but I have never had a day where I wasn't better for the challenges. I saw a few people that I thought would be tremendously successful fall to the pressure, but most people were able to rise to the challenge. This phrase is thrown around far too often in the working world, but I find it to be true for this company, "Its just not for everyone".