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EF Corporate Learning reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)

Peter Burman

86% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

EF Corporate Learning has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EF Corporate Learning employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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21 reviews
1.0
Oct 24, 2023
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Pros

There is a great community within Hult EF If you make the effort to connect with other people. There is a bit of an of an odd dynamic between the international business school downstairs and the corporate education people upstairs. However if you make an effort to go to the Thursday drinks and speak to people who you don't know you will find that there is a good crowd.

Cons

My team in particular had no strategy and it was down to me to forge a product marketing and sales strategy despite that going far beyond my role. In other roles this effort would be celebrated, however here I felt like I was doing my manager's job too with very little thanks or reward. Often Hult EF's employee value/ mission of 'entrepreneurial spirit' is thrown around as a means to stop you from asking for help, even when the task is impossible due to a lack of investment in the right tools, you can bet that it's your lack of entrepenreial spirit that's the issue. It's used in a pretty toxic way. Especially as I failed to see any of the immediate managers around me owning this or the other values of Hult EF. Management generally is very defensive and at times, they lacked basic marketing and sales knowledge despite holding senior roles. While I was there, four of us were hired into marketing roles, two of us left, and the other two were let go because the central team was unable to adequately onboard, manage expectations and set the team up for success. People were very unhappy in their roles after just two weeks. I think it speaks volumes about the central team that they failed to retain any of their new hires. I also felt very unsupported by the central team who constantly had other priorities throughout my time there, yet failed to show any significant progress towards elevating brand awareness or lead generation despite that being their main focus. Cancelling meetings last minute, ghosting and ignoring deadlines were repeated issues from the team. Never in my 8 years of doing this job have I seen that kind of unprofessional behaviour. There is a culture of shifting blame and being very defensive instead of banding together to problem solve. With a number of marketing managers being decentralised, I think the team could work harder to bring everybody together. I also had very little in the way of onboarding and really felt like I was left to my own devices. No one really seemed to be invested in the bigger picture but this might have been because it was not exactly clear what the bigger picture was.

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EF Corporate Learning Response
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We always want to keep learning and improving. So we take all feedback on board and reflect whether we could have done better. We are a vibrant, entrepreneurial organization, where we allow individuals, at all levels, the opportunity to contribute their own ideas and thoughts in relation to projects and strategy. However, we do not expect a digital marketing manager, to define business strategy. We also recognise that we are on a change journey, where we are resetting strategy and focus. This experience of change isn’t for everyone, but it is exciting and rewarding for those comfortable with a degree of ambiguity, who can self-start and proactively contribute to that journey. And that means that sometimes the role isn’t a happy fit for a new recruit. We recognise the need to really focus on team induction and onboarding to set people up for success. And we have done a lot of work over past months as an organization to introduce a structured and comprehensive onboarding academy. This is an area we will seek to continually improve on as we welcome new joiners to the team, who we are happy to share are thriving.
3.0
Aug 16, 2023

Pool paying rates

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good advertising and they portray a good image of the brand

Cons

They pay peanut's, lowest rates on the market

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