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The Vector Impact is an initiative by Vector Marketing. An emerging body of research shows a growing gap between employers' expectations and how young people are showing up in the workplace. Yet nearly all of the advice comes from more seasoned “career experts”—who, while knowledgeable, often lack understanding of the unique challenges facing young professionals today. Some of the advice works, but some just doesn’t. Vector Marketing, the sales arm of CUTCO, is committed to closing this gap. The Vector Impact was founded in 2018 to teach young people skills for life through actionable content you can immediately apply. Looking for flexible work and meaningful experience?

MORE THAN A CAREER BLOG

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PARENTS

Like any good parent, you care about your child’s future. Learn more about Vector Marketing and get your questions answered.

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STUDENTS

Summer job hunting? Give sales a try. Earn income and develop the soft skills employers are searching for.

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GROWTH

So you've been working for Vector Marketing for a while. Now, you're wondering: What's next?! We've got you covered.

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Real stories. Real impact.

No matter where you’re starting from or what direction you’re headed, there's no single path to success at Vector. Our sales reps come from different backgrounds, each with their own goals, dreams, and life stories.

WORD ON THE STREET IS

"This was never meant to be something I planned on doing for longer than three months. It was meant to get me through the summer and earn some extra cash before school. I learned really quickly that there was a different culture here. I started to see the impact and the value that it brought other people and I wanted to be a part of that."
Alex Sylvester

Alexander Sylvester

District Manager

"I just remember what one of my mentors in the business (Robert Alcantra) told me once—'nervous means you care.' After reminding myself of this, I remind myself of my why’s and look over my list of why I want to be a DM (district manager)!"
Marlena Booth

Marlena Booth

Pilot Sales Manager

"The cool thing about this job is that we can create any lifestyle we really want—we just need to be intentional about it and create it by design."
Jeremy Blough

Jeremy Blough

Division Manager

“I’ve learned that connecting with people and showing them you care about them goes a long way. It helps them feel like I’m trying to work with them to find out what’s best. I've learned that it’s important to know where to start with each customer.”
Mikayla Flake

Mikayla Flake

Assistant Manager

“I started with Vector two months ago! It's been really flexible with my college schedule. I also love how there’s so much opportunity and growth within the company. I’e also met and worked with some great people.”
Lilly Herring

Lilly Herring

Manager in Training

“I’m always competing with myself to do better on the next appointment than I did on the last one. Working in sales [while being a student athlete] has also helped with teamwork skills and bonding with my manager and other reps from my office.”
Rylan Crockett

Rylan Crockett

Cutco Sales Professional

“Vector really opens up opportunities within our personal lives and gives us the freedom to work from home on our own schedule. [The culture] is designed to help us get the most out of this experience.”
Rylan Crockett

Yaxiris Cordero

Assistant Manager

"My communication skills have improved drastically since I’ve been with Vector, which is so important for an artist or creator because you have to know how to communicate with clients, your team, your director, etc., effectively."
Elia Allen

Elia Allen

Assistant Manager

"I'm a single father and Marine Corps Veteran who transitioned out of the service to spend more time with my daughter…It’s easy to make excuses, but if you take a step back and start with why, you’re doing something. Doing the work is the only choice."
Ray Salvador

Ray Salvador

Cutco Sales Representative

"The experiences I’ll gain working side by side with my division manager will tremendously help prepare me to run my own district to a much higher scale then just anyone going out to run an office!"
Allison Green

Allison Green

Pilot Sales Manager

"I think a lot of young people don’t have goals, people skills, time management skills, or the ability to effectively connect with someone they’ve never met. I want to help people develop in the same ways that Vector helped me when I first started."
Christian Brown

Christian Brown

Pilot Sales Manager

"I made my dream a reality when I took a huge leap of faith and decided to drop out of college to become a district manager. I had a lot of people doubt me at first saying, ‘What if you fail?’ I remember thinking…I’m not going to. I took over as the Pilot Sales Manager for my division and could not be happier with my decision."
Hannah Gross

Hannah Gross

District Manager

"Yes I had doubts. I came from a small school, a family who wasn’t super connected and had no sales experience. But I made it to half a million in career sales because I wanted to prove that the people who believed in me were right."
Orland Gonzalez

Orland Gonzalez

Cutco Sales Professsional

"I’m studying psychology and philosophy to potentially be a psychologist. Or take it a bit farther and go to law school. I was extremely shy growing up and Vector has helped me become more sure of myself in a social setting."
Briana Odonnell

Briana O’Donnell

Assistant Manager

"The Vector opportunity is unmatched in terms of potential, people, and culture. With Vector, I’ve been able to pay my own way through school, open two offices before I’ve even graduated college, travel multiple times a year, and most importantly—from someone who is not a ‘natural born leader’—learn people skills that allow me to achieve anything I want."
Jacob Shelton

Jacob Shelton

Sr. Field Sales Manager

"I really learned a lot about emotional management through Cutco. I can’t change how others feel, but I can control my mindset—so that’s what I did. I worked my butt off that first summer and started making enough money to put myself through college. Now, I have a great support system that I was able to build through my gained confidence."
Katarina Holecek

Katarina Holecek

Cutco Sales Representative

"I started with Vector in 2017 and I heard about the job from a friend of a friend. It was REALLY exciting because I knew this type of work would help me measurably improve myself. The environment is super supportive and some of the best advice I’ve ever received was from people I’ve met at our conferences."
Pete Ofeciar

Pete Ofeciar

District Manager

"Every person you meet is so positive and motivated. Hard work and effort is a standard. People are always willing to teach you because, at the end of the day, we are all working towards becoming the best versions of ourselves. I have experienced a ton of growth personally, professionally, and financially. I don’t have any regrets."
Anusha Patel

Anusha Patel

District Manager

"I’m from a really small town, south of Puerto Rico, and people thought I was limited. My mom and dad didn’t like the idea of me getting a job because they thought it would break the main focus of me going back to college. Like every parent who wants to protect their son from what they don’t understand—and Vector is a job like no other—they eventually saw the decisions I was making and how I was growing."
Gio Rocha

Gioshuan Rocha

District Manager

"My dream is to be a private practice owner. I need to be able to sell my philosophies and methods of practice to therapists and clinicians I want to hire. To interview, hire, train, and develop my employees. To pitch ideas to investors, sponsors, and future clients. That is exactly what I’ve learned at Vector."
Claire Thompson

Claire Thompson

Sales Manager

IN THE NEWS

If Cutco hired you, I know you're likely a self-starter, you're likely motivated to sell, you have a great sales foundation with training, and you've done something," [Jennifer] Gluckow said. You woke up and said, “I want to go out and try this thing.”
Business Insider 3
I went to work for Vector Marketing selling Cutco knives. That was a life-changing crash course in all elements of sales … Good sales people are not pushy. Sales is about exchanging information. Get information from your prospect about who they are, the needs they’re telling you, the needs they’re not telling you, and what they value.
Authority Magazine Rev2
The company's training and personal development programs have been so successful because they equip their students with real-life skills … Not only do they teach students about sales and proper communication but also how to network and grow a business through social media and referral marketing.
Yahoo Finance
The bottom line is that people don't want to meet with you to hear about you and your needs. They have their own issues. So, ask your clients or prospects what they need. Consider what problems they are trying to solve … The best sales people usually ask the most questions. Your sales strategy should be targeted at presenting your company as the solution for the prospect.
Inc 3
NBA coach Mike Brown—who has banked millions as a head coach—shares his pride in his son’s sales position with Cutco. “What’s Cutco? And then after he explained it to me, I was so proud because he’s an introvert. He’s got to get out as a salesperson and interact with all different types of people. And he knows that needs to become a strong point of his going forward.”
Yahoo Finance
Alfred got his first taste of the business world the summer before college when he sold Cutco knives ... The business was referral-based, forcing Alfred to ask customers to recommend potential leads, a valuable ability he later drew on at BrightScope. “You can’t leave the meeting without a referral that takes you one step closer to your goal,” Alfred said. “I learned how to ask for the business, ask for the sale.” He closed sales about 90% of the time … The payoff? He earned $14,000 in seven weeks.
La Times
Asher Abraham also has fond memories of his Cutco years. He sold the knives throughout his four years at Queens College, in New York, and earned more than $100,000 one year, and he learned a lot in the process, he says. "The first time my [Cutco] manager asked me to speak at a weekly meeting, I thought, 'Who, me? Talk to everybody? No way,' " he recalls. But he did it, and after doing it over and over, it became second nature, he says. He graduated in 2006 and left Cutco a year later for a job at Liberty Mutual, selling commercial insurance.
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I was a history major at Cornell and graduated to, "What the heck do I do now?" I called my dad and said, "Why didn't you send me to trade school because what do I do with a major in history?" And he said, "A liberal arts education will teach you how to think." And I said, "What I think is that I need a job." I spent one summer selling Cutco knives. I can still give a demonstration on how to slice through a penny. My father thought it was a waste of time back then, but he later said that it was useful because it taught me the power of rejection.
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When I first started selling Cutco, I followed the scripts to a T and went through all the motions, but I just couldn’t close. Certainly, my pitch got better over time but it wasn’t until I started to actually believe in the product I was selling, embrace the value proposition and gain the confidence to close with a strong ask that my close rate skyrocketed … Entrepreneurs will be trying to close something from someone—daily. Belief in your offering, idea, or product mixed with a bit of self-confidence will enable you to close the deal. Today, I really can’t give enough credit to my Cutco experience for sharpening my skills as an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur 3
The most talented applicants who walk through our door aren’t leading with income requirements,” he said. “They’re leading with long-term plans and goals that, very rarely, include working for us. We can choose to be offended by this. But instead, as an organization, we’ve chosen to embrace it.” No company wants to see itself as a short-term solution, but [Mike] Monroe believes companies can benefit from being employees’ favorite former place to work. “There’s no shame in being somebody’s most important past job.
Forbes 3
There's a slogan that circulates throughout the company: "It's not about the knives, its about changing lives." When I first heard this, I thought it was corny, however, now I realize that it was never about selling knives. It was about learning and developing skills that would make me more marketable in the future. Vector offers hands-on management programs that give students the opportunity to learn leadership, sales, management, and other valuable business skills OUTSIDE of the classroom. I've been taught more about financial education and literacy during my first year with Vector than throughout my 16 years of formal schooling.
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When I sold knives, every meeting agenda included verbal recognition to colleagues who exhibited exemplary work. It built drive and confidence—and unintentionally ensured that the next boss those employees had looked unappreciative by comparison. Giving employees praise for specific behaviors and results eliminates ambiguity and shows all team members what you value. Every leader should know that what gets recognized gets repeated.
Startups Co 3
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