Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: In Focus

Media Credit: Ben Godinez Karen Asi, assistant manager for Vector Marketing, goes over paperwork.

One of the main concerns for college students is finding a job. Students are looking for a job that can work around a student's hours, where the pay is decent, and one that can be short- term.

Even more coveted is one that is actually pertinent to the student's major or career choice.

At Chabot, some students have found jobs that relate to all of the above.

One of them is Jessica Yeh, a student at Chabot who works for Vector Marketing.

Jessica has achieved four promotions since working for Vector part time. Now, she is a senior advisor with the company. She started in the summer of 2006 and worked for about a month and a half.

She returned to the company last summer to work another couple of months and since working with Vector, Jessica has made $5,000.

Her friend Vincent Vough referred Chino Cruz, anther sales representative, to Vector.

He said that he had done telemarketing before and that he was relieved that Vector wasn't telemarketing.

Vector Marketing runs its business is with one-on-one appointments, which the representative has scheduled ahead of time.

The reps do their first appointments with parents and friends of the family.

"I started with a very close family friend and kept going from there," said Cruz.

Everyone that the reps speak to is personally referred starting out with the reps family and friends, so they don't do any door-to-door.

The reps are paid one of two ways. Chino explains with, "Everyone gets a base pay of $17.70 per appointment, whether or not the customer chooses to purchase, and there's also an incentive pay you can earn as well.

"Then, the reps make a commission on what they sell. If you make more on the commission than the base pay, you keep that.

" But I made a lot more on the incentive side. You basically make whichever is higher, $17.70 or the incentive."

Reps present a product called Cutco Cutlery. Cutco sells more than the top three selling brands in stores combined. "[It's] so easy with a great product," Yeh said.

Nico Lucero, an advanced sales rep, said he had never heard about Cutco before the interview.

After seeing the product in the interview, he went home and realized his family had been using Cutco for many years.

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