Here's the skinny as it was run for some time, but I don't know if it's still the same plan:
6 months of training on the company dime. You splite between in-house corp training in Warsaw and a couple internship-like rotations with one of the distributors in the field. While in Warsaw you live in the Z Hotel in town (Zimmer owns it) until they find you some sort of group apartment or flop house to rent (program consists primarily of bright recent grads from engineering undergrad programs, but some slightly older people often with great sales backgrounds or eagerness but with no or limited industry experience. Pay is annualized at $60k/yr, so essentially you get paid $30k for 6 months of training. Training is very comprehensive, including intensive Med School-like cadaver training for a week at Ohio State and lots of hands-on product training and sales training/role playing. No guarantee of placement after the program, but the placement rate is nearly 100% with a distributor SOMEWHERE - they might tell you that you'll get your pick of where you want to go, but that's not totally true. Kind of depends on who wants to hire you and who has an open slot on their sales team. absolutely no way you will make 200k 1st year out of the academy. If someone truly did, then that is an exception, not the rule. In most cases you will be hired to sell in a place where there is little or no business, so you might be lucky to end up at the $50-100k level. Every distributor pays differently though, so it's all over the map. If you end up in a direct trauma role you will make peanuts and end up looking to parlay your newfound experience into a better paying role rather quickly. For recent college grads looking for work today though as difficult as the economy is, most people would love to get paid $30k to go to school for another 6 months to be prepared to work in a great industry. Just sayin. Kind of silly to pass it up, but you need to really understand what youre getting into with the non-compete (which any company will make you sign anyway). Just understand that if they train you for 6 months on trauma, you can't go sell trauma for another company for 12 or 18 months.
