I am looking at a publicist position. I wanted some honest feedback if you could share with me the range of base pay. I’m sure each contract is different...just an average!! Also I have read the benefits are not that great, if anyone would share with me the benefits that would be wonderful. I appreciate your help in advance
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Pay is low. You can be laid off at any time including right after you passed your Home office training and turned down other offers. You have the stain of Publicis on your resume. Most often you will not be rehired or rolled over - even though both are promised. You manager will treat you like a dog with emails and texts sixteen hours per day seven days per week.
It depends. Its a pharma employment placement agency for temporary help. Just like the name saids, contract. If this fits the bill for you, go for it. People think its easy getting a contract position, its not. Theres so many reps out there. If you havent even been contacted by the recruiter to scheduled a live interview, youre putting the cart before the horse. From your post, you focused on money. Theres enough answers on CP. What do you not get?
How would anyone know what the other contracts are making? We dont even know what folks on the same contract are making.
Think pay in the 60"s. Bonus will be promised and often not paid. You may or may not receive your sales numbers. They may never give you any sales numbers at all...
So you’re going from pharma sales to become a rep for a celebrity?? Good luck with that!!
It’s a company that used to be a CSO company that didn’t have the talent or leadership to survive. They’ve been bought by a venture cap co that I’m guessing wants to be a call center co. All the good CSO people have been fired or quit. The culture is pure poison. Throw darts at your colleagues behind their backs to hide your own inadequacy. Most good people have already left. The company died because the home office in Paris/nyc appointed “leaders” who had zero experience in the pharma business. The top guy was a HR guy (Andrew) with no business talent but an adequate amount of support from a clueless HO. Andrew is the quintessential empty suit, how did this talentless dbag get to this level? He only “shows up” at meetings like “women in business” where he displays the most disgusting example of “mansplaining” and doesn’t even have a clue of his own offensiveness.
Thank you for the background info. Like any job, pharma or otherwise, if you really care where you land, do your research. Otherwise, youll end up whining and pointing the finger at everyone else but yourself.
So true. Its very difficult to get a CSO recruiter to reply. Ask any CSO rep that were let go because the contract ended whether they were placed on a new contract. Not just Publicis, any CSO. The contract companies are not getting the business. There is no loyalty.
I can give feedback. Beware. Publicis may ruin your credit. Publicis stopped paying my corporate Am EX. My expenses were appropriate and approved by management. Home office got word that the contract was going down, so they stopped paying their Am Ex bills. I called and called and it was never fixed and it went against MY PERSONAL credit. Publicis sucks. Beware.
all these CSOs are trash. They just keep changing names so people think theres a newer and better alternative. STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS!!!!
Wow...Well Honest feedback. I suppose it may be as bad as all of the comments above. I just finished home study and live training w the client company. It was intense but good training. Here is my deal. Ive been in the industry a while...My career was rock solid but the last few years i went through some layoffs etc ( like 80% of people in this industry ). The pay and bonus plan are low...no denying that. But it beats the hell out of $0 per year which is what me and many of my peers were earning due to so many layoffs. You have a choice to make...Pay your bills while at least out in the field making contacts with a slight chance of being rolled over or wait it out for a better gig...that might happen next week or in two years...I opted to stay working. I do see a lot of BS coming my way already but if your going to work in the Pharma that is the new norm anyway. Nothing in life is easy and your attitude will take you up or down the hill. Good luck!
If you're on the Novartis contract, please understand there is no such thing as a rollover. Even when vacancies of the cv2 position occur, the PDI rep has to interview, just like everyone else. I've known of 4 cv2 open territories where the PDI rep did NOT get the job.
I understand your need to work. Just do your job, keep your head down, collect your paycheck, but use every single moment of your down time applying/interviewing for other jobs.
PDI/Novartis contract is a complete disaster!! A terrible nightmare!!
I understand your need to work. Just do your job, keep your head down, collect your paycheck, but use every single moment of your down time applying/interviewing for other jobs.
PDI/Novartis contract is a complete disaster!! A terrible nightmare!!
Not true. Those reps didnt get the position because of their attitude prior to the openings. Their attitude of not understanding that they were not the customer. Their attitude towards complaints shared to their pdi and cv2 counterparts. Our attitude show up in action no matter how hard we try to mask it during field rides.
Why are we still talking about rollovers? Has there ever been one with any CSO? Contract is contract. Understand the basics of the CSO business.
That person still stuck on rollovers need to move on. Move on to whats relevant. Move away from hostility and jealousy towards directs. If you cant, you shouldnt be in contract.
For females - You should know that Publicis managers often approach reps at sales meetings to get to know them upstairs in their rooms. Every meeting I attended I was shocked to see this going on. If you refused to go upstairs with the manager; you would receive negative consequences.
Fake post by the trolls. What a waste on our CP. ??? Publicis Manager. What a loser. Must be unemployed.