A Place for Mom reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,431 total reviews)
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A Place for Mom has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,431 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The A Place for Mom employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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1.0
Dec 13, 2010
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Pros

The Eldercare Resource Coordinator position (or Harvester/Gardener position, as it's known within the company) is a great resume builder for someone looking to get their leg up in sales and communications.

Cons

Eldercare Resource Coordinators are treated far more poorly than the rest of the corporate staff. We were continually promised benefits like commission better chance of raises, but in my time at A Place for Mom, the only change I saw was that our bonuses were completely stripped from us. We were so micromanaged and our actions so scrutinized that there were days I was actually afraid to leave my desk to get coffee or to be seen going to the restroom; and all this doesn't scratch the surface of the company's questionable ethics in general.

2.0
Dec 10, 2010
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Pros

Lots of information about the senior living industry, fantastic use of technology, amazingly efficient and helpful central office staff and computer support staff, able to use contacts you already have in the senior living field.

Cons

Expect to spend 90% of your time making highly scripted phone calls, most of which won't be answered so you'll have to leave a message, and many of which are false leads or bad phone numbers. Must meet weekly "phone time" minimums of three hours/day, but the clock starts running only when you are actually connected to another phone, so you could spend 60 seconds on a call with 20 seconds ringing, 20 seconds for their message, 20 seconds to leave your message and it only counts for 40 seconds. In other words, it takes can take 6 hours of phone work to achieve 4 hours of phone time. System doesn't clock incoming calls, so if someone calls you back, the time doesn't count. Communicating by email is discouraged unless it's as a backup to phone calls, making it difficult to work with busy admissions directors at senior living communities who are doing more and more of their work via email. You must record details of every phone call and email in a separate database in real time: who you contacted and why, what the results were, what the next step will be. This effort to track every bit of information leads to a lot of data for the company, but greatly slows down the amount of work you are actually able to do.

2.0
Aug 27, 2010
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Pros

Excellent training which consists of 1 week in Seattle and 6 months from your home office. It's an important job and a great concept. I felt great helping families. Unfortunately, the compensation isn't that great.

Cons

The Eldercare Advisors at A Place for Mom are expected to wear too many hats. They are responsible for advising families (150 at a time which is a full time job in itself), visiting partners and keeping them happy, going out on sales calls to generate new leads and sign new partners. Way too many things for one person to do unless you are prepared to spend 60 hours/week working. They micromanage you which is absurd considering the position is 100% commission with no base salary. The advisors are not assigned territories so you may have 10 advisors working your area. This makes things very complicated for the partners which may have 10 advisors calling them each week or trying to come in to tour their community.

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