Not worth your time - Academic Consultant BeMo Academic Consulting Employee Review

Time management Flexibility Good pay

No pay increase while working for over 4 years.

I have been with BeMo since about late October 2025. Mentorship has been vital to me on my own professional journey, so discovering BeMo and their alignment with this same mission was an immediate point of alignment for me. To this end, the structure of BeMo's offered services is fantastic. Their advising programs are very comprehensive, which allows for individuals from diverse backgrounds to find a home within the company and be able to help students in their areas of expertise. That said, all consultants are trained in session types outside of their direct focus and are more than equipped to handle any session (or at the very least, will have a network of others to rely on for support). My role focuses primarily on medical admissions, however, I have led sessions for dental candidates, PA candidates, and more. BeMo creates all the necessary guides to lead each session type (which you cover extensively during onboarding; more on that below in "Cons"), so you are never without guidance if you run into trouble. My experience with leadership has been very positive overall. Everyone is quite accessible through our communication channels and willing to help out with session questions, other admin concerns, or personal situations that have come up. Furthermore, the team will perform routine quality checks on consultant sessions and use them as opportunities for constructive feedback and to assess consultant progress, which is a nice way to make sure you are meeting the necessary benchmarks and able to improve if need be. Without going into specifics here, the pay has been pretty solid. Definitely can be variable based on where in the admissions cycle we are, but overall there have been no complaints there for me. However, US-based applicants note that you will NOT receive a 1099, so you will need to file your BeMo compensation under self-employment. While there is no in-person component for the majority of consultants, our management teams will still create ways for everyone to connect, such as through video-call "socials", which has been a nice way to meet other consultants and learn more about our broader team. Overall, if you care about helping students and want to be able to carve out a flexible way for you to do that and get compensated along the way, there are few places better to do that than BeMo. That said, the passion to help students really needs to be the driving factor—seeing them succeed is what it is all about.

My main con is that the training/onboarding process is way too long and involved. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of material to cover if you are getting a new consultant up to speed on the application processes for all the medical programs across a handful of countries (US, Canada, UK, Australia, etc.). But more times than not, you are actually covering the more common application types (i.e., US and Canada) in sessions. A bigger emphasis should be placed on teaching a new consultant how to run the session types broadly and get a good system down there, then as they get booked for these less common sessions, allow them to map their session expertise onto the new application system or profession. The core elements are roughly the same, but going through everything upfront only to maybe have 1 or 2 of those session types seems like a hard balance. Despite being compensated for your time during the onboarding modules (which is nice), I would not want to go through the beginning days of onboarding here again under its current structure. In terms of other cons...hmmm...well if I am being nit-picky, I would say that the technology infrastructure at BeMo could probably be improved. In my opinion, the website consultants operate off seems outdated and could be better structured to keep consultant workflows in mind. Related to this, while I understand the need to preserve student confidentiality and data, I feel that the company can better embrace new technology (including AI) to help improve its internal workflows. My final con is related to the seasonality of the work at times. Not a huge issue for me personally like I said, but something to keep in mind if you would want or need to rely on BeMo compensation as a primary source of income. Definitely feasible during the height of interview season, but may taper off during other times of the year.