The review above is right on the money, and sadly they target more than just recent college grads. I've been out of college for 9 years and am currently looking for jobs in sales and marketing. I applied for a seemingly decent position with Next Level Associates, among many other companies during my job search. I got a call to come in for an interview. I arrived at this very shady office, after getting lost in the industrial park it's located in. I had to turn around in a parking lot right next to their building. The parking lot was for what I assume is a drug rehab facility. As I exited that parking lot I look across the street, and wouldn't you know it - there is a strip club. It's located basically across the street from their office. Awesome!
I finally get into the buildingand I am again lost because the name on the door for their office says Accelorated Marketing Solutions. I went in to see if they could tell me where I could find Next Level, and they said I had come to the right office. So I fill out the form that asks for all of the same info that is on my resume. Total waste of time. I am finally called in for an interview, by someone named Brittany, who isn't even the person who called me. I was told I would be meeting with someone else. By the time I entered the actual interview I knew this was a bs company so I asked simple questions such as "why does your company seem to have three different names?" The interviewer seemed shocked I asked, as if I touched on the one thing they didn't want to talk about. She explained that each client that they serviced needed their own company name to represent them in their sales and marketing efforts so that's why they have 3 companies in one. Which makes no sense and seems all the more shady. The companies they supposedly represent are Verizon, Home Depot, Power Home Remodeling, and something to do with the Yankees. If you see job postings to do sales or marketing for any of these companies I suggest you read very closely to see if it's actually a scam position through Next Level, Accelorated etc.
I continued to ask many questions so I think the interviewer knew I was onto their shady ways, and I never got a call about about that job. This was in July. It is now the end of Sept and I keep getting emails and calls from them, saying they found my resume online and would like to have me come in for an interview. They clearly have no idea they already met with me. Great research on their part. Just stear clear of all of this if you value your time and career path.
I went on an interview with H2 Concepts in Mineola-might be associated with Accelerated Marketing I realize now. I could not even find the office at first. When I finally found it, it was so sketchy...I felt like I was walking through the hallways of a dungeon to get there. There were NO signs for the company names so when I arrived to the office I wasn't even sure if I was in the right place. I was with 2 other interviwees who seemed just as confused. Finally, a women asked if we were there for an interview and if so we were in the right place. So, I'm sitting there with several other people (like speed interviewing), and we get called in one by one for about a ten minute interview. The person who interviewed me was very nice and professional looking, however its the office that completely turned me off. The walls were painted an ugly bright red color, the table in the "waiting" room had a broken leg with tape covering it, and the office was just small and run down. There were only two other girls there.
During the interview I asked how many people worked here and I was told 50...but I only saw 2 other people. Interview was easy but I didn't even try because I knew something seemed off. I got a call later that day to come in for a second interview but I just didn't show up. I'd rather stay working my part time job another year than to be miserable at a sketchy company full time.
IN ADDITION, I found Accelerated Marketing Solutions recently.. I thought maybe it would be different than H2 Concepts. But, they set me up with an interview without even asking me anything about my experience or college education whatsoever, tried to place me in a bad neighborhood that I said I wasn't applying for, then never even returned my request for the address-the women left me on the phone for ten minutes while she was going to find the address for me and I overheard the other women in the office making phone calls..I heard one women talking to someone saying she was calling from JOB WINDOW. I thought to myself "Isn't this accelerated marketing?" That's when it hit me that all of these companies just go by different names to get more employees to work for them, and so when everyone finds out about one at least they have multiple other names to go by so that people are constantly applying.
Don't be fooled guys. Us recent college grads deserve a better job. Defer those loans until you find something NOT sketchy.
Let me start by saying this: If you are a recent college graduate looking for an Entry Level career in Marketing, this is not your place.
I sent my resume in to Accelerated Marketing Solutions after seeing an ad for a Marketing Assistant and Coordinator position on LinkedIn. It's on LinkedIn, how sketchy could it be right? I got a call two days later from a woman named Jennifer wanting to set up an interview with me the next day. Of course I was estatic. That is, until the interview day came.
The day of the interview, I pull up to an industrial park that looks like the set of a CSI investigation. I didn't even want to get out of my car, but it was a short walk to the building so I sucked it up and walked up to the second floor where the company is located. I walk into a waiting room that's about 8 x 10 feet packed with about 15 other college aged applicants. The room itself was absolutely disgusting. Stains and old gum all over the carpet, which looked like it was picked up off the side of the road somewhere in the industrial park, and gross tables and chairs scattered around the room. This didn't exactly make me feel like this was a professional company I was applying for. I walked up to the waiting room window and was greeted by a very nice young girl, probably to make the candidates feel like it was a great "company". She handed me a sheet and told me to fill it out and hand it back in with my resume. The sheet was probably the shittiest version of a job application I've ever seen. It too looked uprofessional and asked me to fill the sheet out with the exact same information that would be on any normal resume, which was pretty annoying. I handed my sheet in and opted out of sitting in one of the chairs while I waited for fear that I'd contract some sort of disease. I had a 1:15 interview and wasn't even called in for my interview until 2:20. Again, unprofessional. My name is called by a very young man named Drew. I'm a college grad and he looked no older than me. By this point, I had decided that I would not be working for this company, but I figured I'd go in to for the interview just for some experience. I'm brought into Drew's office which is clad with the Walmart furniture I read about on reviews on here. The room was essentially bare with the exception of this desk and two chairs. He proceeds to tell me this first interview would be a way to see if you're a good fit for the company and position. As he's asking me questions about sales and sales goals, I realized that I had also been tricked into thinking this was a Marketing Coordinator position. What the company had done, which after research I had seen that they had done to a number of other people, had tricked me into one position and then tried to get me into sales to make them more money. Complete scam. I decided then and there that I was going to blow my interview. If they were going to waste my time, I was going to waste theirs. I answered the rest of his questions with probably the worst answers I've given in any interview, AND THEY STILL ASKED ME TO COME BACK FOR THE SECOND INTERVIEW. They must be really desperate to get people in there and make them more money. Before I left his office, Drew proceeded to tell him that I can be successful like him and make "Six figures" if I take a job here. If he's so successful, why is the only thing in his office a Walmart desk? Needless to say, I won't be going back for the second interview.
When I got home from this interview I figured I'd do a little research on my friend Drew. Apparently he's 21 years old. 21 year old president of a company? Yeah, how much executive experience have you racked up to earn that title? Give me a break. This kid probably just graduated college and threw together some piece of shit company in order to avoid working for the man. I learned another thing about Drew through my research. Turns out, he was recently arrested on charges of unregistered home improvement sales and soliciting without a permit. If the president of the company has a criminal record in a field related to the company, what does that say about the company? If you're a recent college grad, don't let them trick you. You can do better.
Accelerated Marketing Solutions Reviews
A total scam - beware
The review above is right on the money, and sadly they target more than just recent college grads. I've been out of college for 9 years and am currently looking for jobs in sales and marketing. I applied for a seemingly decent position with Next Level Associates, among many other companies during my job search. I got a call to come in for an interview. I arrived at this very shady office, after getting lost in the industrial park it's located in. I had to turn around in a parking lot right next to their building. The parking lot was for what I assume is a drug rehab facility. As I exited that parking lot I look across the street, and wouldn't you know it - there is a strip club. It's located basically across the street from their office. Awesome!
I finally get into the buildingand I am again lost because the name on the door for their office says Accelorated Marketing Solutions. I went in to see if they could tell me where I could find Next Level, and they said I had come to the right office. So I fill out the form that asks for all of the same info that is on my resume. Total waste of time. I am finally called in for an interview, by someone named Brittany, who isn't even the person who called me. I was told I would be meeting with someone else. By the time I entered the actual interview I knew this was a bs company so I asked simple questions such as "why does your company seem to have three different names?" The interviewer seemed shocked I asked, as if I touched on the one thing they didn't want to talk about. She explained that each client that they serviced needed their own company name to represent them in their sales and marketing efforts so that's why they have 3 companies in one. Which makes no sense and seems all the more shady. The companies they supposedly represent are Verizon, Home Depot, Power Home Remodeling, and something to do with the Yankees. If you see job postings to do sales or marketing for any of these companies I suggest you read very closely to see if it's actually a scam position through Next Level, Accelorated etc.
I continued to ask many questions so I think the interviewer knew I was onto their shady ways, and I never got a call about about that job. This was in July. It is now the end of Sept and I keep getting emails and calls from them, saying they found my resume online and would like to have me come in for an interview. They clearly have no idea they already met with me. Great research on their part. Just stear clear of all of this if you value your time and career path.
Glad u wrote this
Just glad you wrote this! This help out a lot of people! Thank you
They've changed their name AGAIN
They are now going by Next Level Associates...same scam!
Accelerated Marketing / H2 Concepts
I went on an interview with H2 Concepts in Mineola-might be associated with Accelerated Marketing I realize now. I could not even find the office at first. When I finally found it, it was so sketchy...I felt like I was walking through the hallways of a dungeon to get there. There were NO signs for the company names so when I arrived to the office I wasn't even sure if I was in the right place. I was with 2 other interviwees who seemed just as confused. Finally, a women asked if we were there for an interview and if so we were in the right place. So, I'm sitting there with several other people (like speed interviewing), and we get called in one by one for about a ten minute interview. The person who interviewed me was very nice and professional looking, however its the office that completely turned me off. The walls were painted an ugly bright red color, the table in the "waiting" room had a broken leg with tape covering it, and the office was just small and run down. There were only two other girls there.
During the interview I asked how many people worked here and I was told 50...but I only saw 2 other people. Interview was easy but I didn't even try because I knew something seemed off. I got a call later that day to come in for a second interview but I just didn't show up. I'd rather stay working my part time job another year than to be miserable at a sketchy company full time.
IN ADDITION, I found Accelerated Marketing Solutions recently.. I thought maybe it would be different than H2 Concepts. But, they set me up with an interview without even asking me anything about my experience or college education whatsoever, tried to place me in a bad neighborhood that I said I wasn't applying for, then never even returned my request for the address-the women left me on the phone for ten minutes while she was going to find the address for me and I overheard the other women in the office making phone calls..I heard one women talking to someone saying she was calling from JOB WINDOW. I thought to myself "Isn't this accelerated marketing?" That's when it hit me that all of these companies just go by different names to get more employees to work for them, and so when everyone finds out about one at least they have multiple other names to go by so that people are constantly applying.
Don't be fooled guys. Us recent college grads deserve a better job. Defer those loans until you find something NOT sketchy.
Let me start by saying this: If you are a recent college graduate looking for an Entry Level career in Marketing, this is not your place.
I sent my resume in to Accelerated Marketing Solutions after seeing an ad for a Marketing Assistant and Coordinator position on LinkedIn. It's on LinkedIn, how sketchy could it be right? I got a call two days later from a woman named Jennifer wanting to set up an interview with me the next day. Of course I was estatic. That is, until the interview day came.
The day of the interview, I pull up to an industrial park that looks like the set of a CSI investigation. I didn't even want to get out of my car, but it was a short walk to the building so I sucked it up and walked up to the second floor where the company is located. I walk into a waiting room that's about 8 x 10 feet packed with about 15 other college aged applicants. The room itself was absolutely disgusting. Stains and old gum all over the carpet, which looked like it was picked up off the side of the road somewhere in the industrial park, and gross tables and chairs scattered around the room. This didn't exactly make me feel like this was a professional company I was applying for. I walked up to the waiting room window and was greeted by a very nice young girl, probably to make the candidates feel like it was a great "company". She handed me a sheet and told me to fill it out and hand it back in with my resume. The sheet was probably the shittiest version of a job application I've ever seen. It too looked uprofessional and asked me to fill the sheet out with the exact same information that would be on any normal resume, which was pretty annoying. I handed my sheet in and opted out of sitting in one of the chairs while I waited for fear that I'd contract some sort of disease. I had a 1:15 interview and wasn't even called in for my interview until 2:20. Again, unprofessional. My name is called by a very young man named Drew. I'm a college grad and he looked no older than me. By this point, I had decided that I would not be working for this company, but I figured I'd go in to for the interview just for some experience. I'm brought into Drew's office which is clad with the Walmart furniture I read about on reviews on here. The room was essentially bare with the exception of this desk and two chairs. He proceeds to tell me this first interview would be a way to see if you're a good fit for the company and position. As he's asking me questions about sales and sales goals, I realized that I had also been tricked into thinking this was a Marketing Coordinator position. What the company had done, which after research I had seen that they had done to a number of other people, had tricked me into one position and then tried to get me into sales to make them more money. Complete scam. I decided then and there that I was going to blow my interview. If they were going to waste my time, I was going to waste theirs. I answered the rest of his questions with probably the worst answers I've given in any interview, AND THEY STILL ASKED ME TO COME BACK FOR THE SECOND INTERVIEW. They must be really desperate to get people in there and make them more money. Before I left his office, Drew proceeded to tell him that I can be successful like him and make "Six figures" if I take a job here. If he's so successful, why is the only thing in his office a Walmart desk? Needless to say, I won't be going back for the second interview.
When I got home from this interview I figured I'd do a little research on my friend Drew. Apparently he's 21 years old. 21 year old president of a company? Yeah, how much executive experience have you racked up to earn that title? Give me a break. This kid probably just graduated college and threw together some piece of shit company in order to avoid working for the man. I learned another thing about Drew through my research. Turns out, he was recently arrested on charges of unregistered home improvement sales and soliciting without a permit. If the president of the company has a criminal record in a field related to the company, what does that say about the company? If you're a recent college grad, don't let them trick you. You can do better.