-: My major priority going into service
was psychology with a minor in sociology,
and when I came here to University of Maryland,
they didn't have a psych major at UMUC,
but they did have a behavioral and social sciences,
which was very, very similar,
and actually some of those courses
were very, very interesting in the open university
six of nine credit classes that I took.
So, getting that behavioral science education,
that put the science from that perspective
below what I already kind of knew
naturally as a person
was very, very interesting.
We use interns periodically, especially in the summer,
for usually normal there are regular undergrads,
but you could go to an agency probably and sit in.
The agencies is the toughest job,
and that's where I started right after I graduated
from UMUC.
It's, you're a hundred percent commissioned.
You know.
You better put it together and do it quick,
and like I said, people have gone
six months, nine months, very, very quickly,
but you could go.
They'd probably let you sit in and tag along
and watch how things were done to see if you want to do it,
but I would look for somebody that had attention to detail
because they're gonna be scanning.
They're gonna be reading a lot of documents.
Either the job descriptions,
the performance of work statements
that those positions come out of
or hundreds of resumes a day.
Ability to follow up,
you can't readily see that on a resume,
so you almost have to try the person out,
and I think that's why the agencies do it that way.
Internal recruiting's a little bit easier.
You can be groomed.
You have time.
You're on a base salary, maybe plus bonus
rather than one hundred percent commission.
It depends on which niche of recruiting
you want to go into.
If you want to go into agency recruiting,
you can make a lot of money if you're very good,
and it's all dependent upon your effort
and the time you put in.