Pros
- Covered medical insurance, but all public higher education institutions do this. - Snacks
Cons
- Training is not efficient because the trainer is a part-time advisor. It doesn't make sense for a part-timer (in office 2x weekly) to be training full-time advisors (5x week obviously). It was 2 weeks before someone told me I should be clocking in and out daily, and the person that told me was NOT my supervisor. I had to throw a literal fit to get an advising handbook. - Leadership does not understand how to lead. The team has many suggestions for how things could be changed - like the student queue not being closed until 5pm. That doesn't make things fair for the advisors nor does it teach students accountability of going somewhere during the regular hours AND before they close! The college clearly only cares about enrollment numbers and not the advisors doing the enrollment. When these concerns and feedback are brought up by staff, they are ignored. I was told trying to get your concerns heard from anybody above our supervisors was like "beating a dead horse". - Messaging is trash from leadership. Chunky emails scolding employees saying "we need to be better" for missing a student that needed advising AFTER 5PM, but 20 mins later it's an email about ice cream in the breakroom since we "work so hard". Lots of micromanaging, even from the part-time advisors? So weird. Be prepared to not be trusted by the supervisors enough to even work remotely to do "College Day" which was 30 mins of videos on Youtube. We had to come onto the closed campuses for 2 hours to do that nonsense. Overall, I've never been in a more unorganized, discouraging environment. Higher ed professionals coming from large institutions, beware.
