Anyone work as a market researcher?

facingthefuture

Hi I applied and have been told I can go on a training course as a face to face interviewer. Has anyone any experience of this?I would be grateful for tips or to hear your experience.

wayne1983

Ive always wondered about this area of work and been curious to how pay and just genrally what this type of work would be like to be involved in.
Let us know how you get on as i may be interested myself.:beer:

scotsbob

I did market research about twenty years ago. I worked as a part time interviewer for one company and then as a project controller for another.

One problem that interviewers find is that so many direct sales and marketing companies start off their sales pitch by saying they are doing market research and the public are now wary. This means that genuine market researchers find it difficult to fulfill their quotas.

With some jobs you will be given a list of people who have agreed to be interviwed, for example doctors who have agreed to be interviwed about a particular medicine. Other jobs require you to find your own leads eg 20-25 year old females in socio economic group B who read a particular newspaper. You have to talk to a lot of people to filter out those who don't fit the criteria and you only get paid for the interviews with those who do.

Pay is not very good until you become established with a company and start to get the better jobs.

wayne1983

Thanks for your honest review there. So it can be worth doing then long term.
Also on the researcher subject, and im sure its been done to death many time!, is there any places in your region that you can sign up for face to face market research, as im always told about this but never seem to get a deffo answer about it, thanks:beer:

scotsbob

As I said in my previous post, it was 20 years ago that I was involved. In those days each of the large companies had area supervisors. When you applied to a company the area supervisor would contact you and train you, sometimes one to one, sometimes in a group. Then the supervisor allocated the work.
Best advice to you would be to contact the Market Research Society who are in Northburgh St in London and get an up to date list of UK research companies and then start applying to them.

wayne1983

scotsbob wrote: »

As I said in my previous post, it was 20 years ago that I was involved. In those days each of the large companies had area supervisors. When you applied to a company the area supervisor would contact you and train you, sometimes one to one, sometimes in a group. Then the supervisor allocated the work.
Best advice to you would be to contact the Market Research Society who are in Northburgh St in London and get an up to date list of UK research companies and then start applying to them.

Oh right thanks for your help, i will check them out!.
Can i ask though, did you do this as a 'main job' or was it a 'extra' cheers:beer:

scotsbob

wayne1983 wrote: »

Oh right thanks for your help, i will check them out!.
Can i ask though, did you do this as a 'main job' or was it a 'extra' cheers:beer:

The interviewing was part time. Project controller was main job, office based.
When I was involved, the only people who did interviewing as a main job were housewives who did about 10-15 hours a week to make extra money. I very much doubt if, even today, interviiewing would pay enough to support someone as a main wage.

Good luck.

wayne1983

scotsbob wrote: »

The interviewing was part time. Project controller was main job, office based.
When I was involved, the only people who did interviewing as a main job were housewives who did about 10-15 hours a week to make extra money. I very much doubt if, even today, interviiewing would pay enough to support someone as a main wage.

Good luck.

Thanks again for that, i was curious to see whether it could be done as main income thats all.:beer: