ESS reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,485 total reviews)
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62% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

ESS has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,485 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ESS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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2.0
Jul 27, 2015

Not the best

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You can choose to work whenever you want to (if jobs are available) and you can work for multiple districts if they all use Source4Teachers.

Cons

They recently implemented a terrible concept to help out schools fill specific positions by only making district-wide jobs available and not specifying the specific job or school. So if you are trying to get experience in a high school, you may often get put into an elementary school. Or if you prefer to not work in a special education classroom, you may get put into a special education classroom. I understand the thought process behind what they are trying to do for the schools, but in the end I think it is really hurting the classrooms and making it worse for the employees as well. They also don't update the teacher lists for all the schools every year. So you may take a job for a certain teacher, show up to the school listed, and find out they don't work at that location anymore and they actually work at a different school. And many participating districts still use their own list of substitutes instead of putting their jobs on Source4Teachers.

3.0
Jul 8, 2015

COOL GIG

Anonymous employee
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Pros

End up in a different school day to day, flexible don't have to work unless you want to. Meet new people day to day. The kids when you win them over. Not just a "daycare" for kids, but engage them, they are looking for that.

Cons

Some schools have a different day rate, be sure to know it. Also, when teachers don't leave lesson plans, you have to be prepared--my advice, ask neighboring teachers to lend you some lessons.

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