business consultant

operations consultant

business owner

sales executive

senior business analyst

Global Resources, LLC

Senior Business Consultants

In this job you will travel, meet small business owners and help them become successful in their operations.  You will incur a large amount of debt in the first month and a half.  Expenses are a (non-company paid) decent laptop, portable printer, luggage and business professional clothing.  In many cases outside of the portable printer people may already have these tools.  After an extensive training that has a 50%-70% completion rate expenses are paid out in two week increments and will include between $2-5000 dollars in expenses.  These expenses include Hotel, car rental, gas for the car rental, meals, Uber or taxi expenses.  These expenses are reimbursed in the same billing cycle but make sure you have $5000 in available CC credit to sustain this rotating debt.

Beach pay, you will be on call to be deployed if you are on the beach.  This pay scale is what the minimum salaried scale is based on the employees state.  If you do not like waiting in a car near the airport to “maybe” have the ability to work with a client this downtime can become very frustrating.

Clients spend a lot of money on your service.  In every case I have been apart of the client could have spent 4x what they did and would have gained value on the engagement.  This is a very satisfying feeling and gives the consultant a great feeling of accomplishment.

Travel: This is a six day a week job with travel.  On an active job you will fly out Sunday and fly home Friday.  You have the ability to fly anywhere in the country not just home (As long as plane tickets are priced about the same).  Work-life balance during and active job can be difficult.

I travel to any part of the country sit with an owner, CPA/CEO of a business and conduct a business survey of the possible problems they are experiencing financially and operationally. Through this process I have the opportunity to quickly figure the problem cost and prohibitory issues that may paralyze the business or corporation and make recommendations for solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

Through this experience I have learned to analyze financials more efficiently and grasped a better understanding of key financial indicators effecting income.

Time management in this role is very important and my manager has been an expert in guiding me through that process. I bring from this position much improved negotiation skills and project management skills.

My co-workers were all educated professionals with a strong desire to succeed. Many were previous business owners, CFO’s and CEO’s of either their own business or a major corporation.

The most difficult part of this job is the travel, and the fact that you could not also be the Business Consultant to complete the projects you recommended for the client. As a result many times the consultants coming in after you may not mesh well with the client and that would result in an incomplete job.

Meeting with businesses from $200k to $10million or a retail store or a manufacturer; discussing various areas of opportunities to improve their operation. Knowing that once you have completed your survey, at the end of the second day with a client, you may have just saved his business and the job of someone who is trying to feed their family.

First, it is a scam. You go through one week worth of training (unpaid) provide your own laptop and printer to travel with as well. They tell you you leave sunday night and get home friday afternoon. You leave the first flight from your town Sunday am (usually by 7 in the am) and you get back on the last flight on Friday. I usually got home friday at midnight. Next you get paid $100/day (mon-thursday) 75 for Sunday and 50 for Friday. Remember now, that $100 is to cover your hotel, food,rental car, gas, and tolls. Be prepared to have out of pocket expenses. This is a straight commission sales job but they keep telling you it isnt a sales job. The training is a joke. They just pump you up on how great the company is but there is no training on the job. You have to be very good at BSing the client and tell him he is going out of business and he wont even afford to send his kids to community college. This after spending one day at the company and looking at his P&L statement. Most of the business comes from fear tactics and you interview the wife to get amunition to play against the owner. You have to tell the owner there is a "resource team" working on his behalf but that is just a scam so the owner thinks when you call into the office you are talking to his "team". This is just a ploy to bad mouth the owner without saying it to his face and you are usually just talking to the secretary at the home office of Global Resouces on your Resource Call. Global pushes all the money people make (100k+) but I didnt know any of the analysis that made that kind of $. 5% of the analysis people make it past 3 months, and it isnt the travel. It is mostly the scam gets old week after week... just my 2 cents

There is a lot of travel and you start with a low per diem. They are upfront about the costs during the hiring process, but it is certainly something to consider before starting. Also worth noting that you can be getting into the town you will be working at around 12-1 AM and have to be at a meeting at 7 or 8 AM the next morning. This is not the norm but can be a struggle. Overall, the opportunity to travel around the US has been a very interesting experience and I have no real complaints - I usually get a pretty good seat when flying (which the company does cover).

Training is very quick and can focus more on operational aspects than the actual job. I think a bigger focus could be made there on how to successfully get up and running as a new analyst and how to handle different challenges that commonly arise.

You definitely start out being assigned the least promising jobs, which can make it a challenge to get your feet under you, but the earning potential is very high.

The job is a bit more salesy than expected and you are really expected to not take no for an answer even if your prospects don't look good.

Overall, if your personality fits the role, you can do very well for yourself. But if it does not, then there is a solid chance you will go through a lot of struggles for little to no financial benefit.

Selection process is a joke.  Just Copy Paste XL cells and a few basic things.
You need to have your own laptop, printer, ink, paper, pens, folders, binders, etc. etc
You have to pay for your own travel expenses food, car and hotel.  
Reimbursements take a month and always are lower than what you paid for  
Basically you are subsidizing their operation.
Training is overwhelming and totally disorganized.  At least 4 weeks are needed to have a Business Consultant ready to work.  They do it in two weeks
First work week they throw you out with their worst customers when you are clearly not ready and they blame it on you.  
Work week starts Sundays afternoon ends Fridays evening.  That is over 48 hours   You are home for less than 40 hours on weekends.
The Business Consultants are mere sales people forcing the customer to buy  more consulting hours.  Those companies clearly need another type of services.  
The bottom line is that 85% of the companies using GR's consulting services waste their money and shortly end up with the same problems.  Only 15% or less get a tangible benefit for their investment.
Not a good place to work at all.  Stay away
    



The whole philosophy of the company seems to be that if you throw enough at the wall, some of it will stick.  Training would have been overwhelming, if not for my education and experience.  The company definitely has too many forms and questionnaires.  Fewer forms with more practice would be better for training, instead of all the success stories that lacked any real substance.  Crucial to the role of SBA is getting a hold of financials to be able to build the case that a client needs help.  The sales reps check off that the client has agreed to produce financials, but the client's don't turn them over, probably because they are hiding cash.  In the end, new SBAs get $1M to $2M businesses that are reporting their size to be about 25% to 33% less, because of the unreported cash they are sucking out of the company.  Those type of people don't want to be fixed.  But GR keeps sending SBAs in to visit them, sometimes as many as 4 or 5 times in a 12 month period.  In the end, there is great attrition, but somehow the math must workout for GR and the few who manage to be successful.  On the other hand, during the headquarters' tour, it looked like they had axed a lot of internal staff...

Sunday nights you receive your assignment through mail with name and address of the company you are going to conduct the analysis. The assignment will have information like company size, annual revenue, issues the company is facing and the name the person you will meet with usually the owner or the CEO. 

You go to the company to conduct a quantitative as well as qualitative analysis of the company to identify the problems the business is facing, how much they are costing the business in terms of loose bottom-line profit, find out if the problem is fixable and If it is whether the company can do it by itself or whether an outside help is needed.  If an outside help is needed, determine the type of investment that is required, how much the investment will cost the company and if the investment is made how much ROI it will add to the bottom-line profit.

You have to love traveling and be able to do it 95% at all time to be able to do that job. You will be always between two airports always renting cars and dress good at all time.

I recently started with Global Resources and have to say it was a very painless interview process. From first contact to interview to training it was only 3 weeks and I was moving from a competitor across the country. The initial training experience has been extremely thorough and welcoming. I was afraid I would be lost coming from a totally different region and company. The whole company really seems to care about its employees. It may very well just be a honeymoon period but I am glad I made the move.

The only real con I can think of is the size of the company. That is probably because I came from such a smaller outfit that sometimes I feel lost in the crowd. It's never good for employee morale to think of yourself as just another cog in the wheel. This has somewhat worn off but people coming from smaller companies should keep that in mind.

The work you get to do is amazing, helping small businesses around the country. You get to know the owners and care for them, and give them tools to help their business survive and thrive. You also have to protect them from making huge mistakes - like hiring this company in the first place. 

The travel perks are great / but reimbursement is slow and compensation is confusing. Your work is the only thing getting invoiced when the job starts, but YOU are responsible for everyone making their bonus - and if you don’t hit it, you are ostracized. No matter if it’s in the best interest of the client. The company is only worried about covering their butts. The people at home office think that all the owners/clients are idiots and that the people working in the field are idiots. They expect top notch work, but treat you like trash. 

If you like money and don’t have a conscious, you might like working here. 

Don't bother taking on the role of SBA with this company.  They operate based on the law of numbers and provide you with some support from a senior person within the office called an SSD.  They do not call the role what it really is - A Sales Job - with a "sales team" setting appointments in a call center.  The potential client you will see has no idea of what to expect and that is the "perception" that the company wants to keep.  It all comes down to the "Survey" of the SBA with a minimal probability of getting the actual consulting sale.  No sale = No money in your pocket as the SBA.  They don't pay enough to cover your expenses and the potential pay is a pipe dream.  Summarizing - GR is a step above selling vacuum cleaners door to door....You'd be better served to do just that.

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