I saw the job posting on Indeed.com and filled in the online application. I got confirmation from a woman named Grace Rodriguez. She had an LA phone number and was the "HR Director". I asked her if this was an hourly position or commission only and she said that it was paid training and some positions have base and commission, but that I would have to ask the "hiring manager' because she did not know how it would "pay out". That did not seem right. That a HR manager did not know how people would get paid. Her name was no where on the web site.
I had trouble finding the place and had to call Grace and get directions. I was looking for an office building, but it is actually in a strip shopping mall that has about 1/2 occupancy. There is no sign on the window or outside above the door. Just a small "E" on the door. Grace had no idea it was a shopping center and had looked it up on Google and told me it was L- shaped. She had never seen the office or heard about what it looked like and that was fishy.
I got there and had to fill out a paper application and then got an interview where he described 3 jobs. An administrative assistant who would do payroll, a brand ambassador who would be standing around in a mall with a folding table of merchandise trying to promote charities by selling ball caps etc, and event coordinator who would be selling fundraising events to corporations to raise money for the charities that Black Mesa has as clients. DARE is the only charity they talked to me about.
The hiring manager Reed Darragh was all alone in the unlabled office and there was very little furniture. No other people were working there and there was a waiting room in front, a glass window reception area (like clinics have) and then his office. There were some other rooms. Reed commented about how there was no sign up and said he wanted to find a better place, but was surprised how much office space cost. That sounded wrong for a supposed "company president". Reed finished the interview saying he would be selecting some applicants for a call back interview later and let me know in a week or so.
I checked out the website and it was very amateurish. Like the kind of prefab websites that people get for themselves, not what a company would use. The pictures were of very, very young people. Sme appeared to still be in high school, none appeared to be over 25. Their corporate officers look like high school kids, especially their director of compliance, director of marketing/communication, and their director of operations. Most of the pictures on the website are of a training session they went to at a convention center. Very nice meeting rooms and lobby areas, but not owned by Black Mesa
They have done no events for fund raising and only have a few pictures of a toy drive, a gay pride parade and some t shirt selling events. All really amateurish looking. Supposedly they sell DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Training) t shirts and ball caps to raise money for the organization.
Most of the pictures are from a conference that DARE gave to teach people how to fund raise for them. The Black Mesa event managers went, but it was not a Black Mesa corporate event, it was a DARE event. There were few if any comments and the web site looked very new and under developed. All of the text was just motivational jargon about how if you care about communities and want to make a difference, Black Mesa is the place for you. No way to apply for work on the website.
Overall, this is a bunch of kids with big dreams and no actual company. They are trying to throw something together, but have no hope of getting it off the ground. I think mostly they are pretending that you can make money doing what people do as volunteers. It would be impossible to raise money and support yourself by selling t shirts off of a card table at a public event. They are going to be able to really beef up their linkedin profiles with their inflated job titles, but with their little kid faces, no one will believe them!
Black Mesa Marketing Reviews
I saw the job posting on Indeed.com and filled in the online application. I got confirmation from a woman named Grace Rodriguez. She had an LA phone number and was the "HR Director". I asked her if this was an hourly position or commission only and she said that it was paid training and some positions have base and commission, but that I would have to ask the "hiring manager' because she did not know how it would "pay out". That did not seem right. That a HR manager did not know how people would get paid. Her name was no where on the web site.
I had trouble finding the place and had to call Grace and get directions. I was looking for an office building, but it is actually in a strip shopping mall that has about 1/2 occupancy. There is no sign on the window or outside above the door. Just a small "E" on the door. Grace had no idea it was a shopping center and had looked it up on Google and told me it was L- shaped. She had never seen the office or heard about what it looked like and that was fishy.
I got there and had to fill out a paper application and then got an interview where he described 3 jobs. An administrative assistant who would do payroll, a brand ambassador who would be standing around in a mall with a folding table of merchandise trying to promote charities by selling ball caps etc, and event coordinator who would be selling fundraising events to corporations to raise money for the charities that Black Mesa has as clients. DARE is the only charity they talked to me about.
The hiring manager Reed Darragh was all alone in the unlabled office and there was very little furniture. No other people were working there and there was a waiting room in front, a glass window reception area (like clinics have) and then his office. There were some other rooms. Reed commented about how there was no sign up and said he wanted to find a better place, but was surprised how much office space cost. That sounded wrong for a supposed "company president". Reed finished the interview saying he would be selecting some applicants for a call back interview later and let me know in a week or so.
I checked out the website and it was very amateurish. Like the kind of prefab websites that people get for themselves, not what a company would use. The pictures were of very, very young people. Sme appeared to still be in high school, none appeared to be over 25. Their corporate officers look like high school kids, especially their director of compliance, director of marketing/communication, and their director of operations. Most of the pictures on the website are of a training session they went to at a convention center. Very nice meeting rooms and lobby areas, but not owned by Black Mesa
They have done no events for fund raising and only have a few pictures of a toy drive, a gay pride parade and some t shirt selling events. All really amateurish looking. Supposedly they sell DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Training) t shirts and ball caps to raise money for the organization.
Most of the pictures are from a conference that DARE gave to teach people how to fund raise for them. The Black Mesa event managers went, but it was not a Black Mesa corporate event, it was a DARE event. There were few if any comments and the web site looked very new and under developed. All of the text was just motivational jargon about how if you care about communities and want to make a difference, Black Mesa is the place for you. No way to apply for work on the website.
Overall, this is a bunch of kids with big dreams and no actual company. They are trying to throw something together, but have no hope of getting it off the ground. I think mostly they are pretending that you can make money doing what people do as volunteers. It would be impossible to raise money and support yourself by selling t shirts off of a card table at a public event. They are going to be able to really beef up their linkedin profiles with their inflated job titles, but with their little kid faces, no one will believe them!