Poor recruiter guy. He knows he needs to be fishing at the bottom of the barrel because of the pay. So he'll never feel a sense of accomplishment even when he does accomplish filling the position because he knows whoever takes it is not experienced enough to know it's not worth it. This is really the mantra for merchandising in the last 12 or so years since the smaller companies like Lawrence and Driveline opened their books. Worse yet now that I.C. projects with companies like SPAR manage to get clients and people to do merchandising work, and barely at that, who only do it in order to not be homeless.
Funny thing is, it's the client who ultimately suffers. Have the clients, or their marketing reps, gone into the stores lately to see what's happening? I don't think so. The marketing reps aren't even the customer for most merchandised products on the market now. They're 20 somethings, straight out of college, who can afford Lauderée and could give a rats a$$ about L'Oreal or Cover Girl. They have their cloth diapers delivered and don't want to help muck up the environment so they know nothing about huggies. But there they are, marketing products they have no esteem for and chalking them up to be low grade and paying as such. Ask me how I know, because I paid for my daughters to go to college and that's what they are like. Awesome to them and all of that, they're better off than me.
But all of that took away the ability to be middle class if you are a merchandiser anymore. The only way that I can still make between $40k and $70k is to get in early with Brand Ambassador projects that have first and second year marketing money. So every year, or every season sometimes, there I am, knocking on doors and trying to fit my 27 different companies I've worked for over the last 5 years on one page of a resume.
Woe is me! Woe are us!