Great for brokers, not so much for staff - Marketing and Administrative Assistant Cushman & Wakefield Employee Review

- No growth opportunities: If you are considering taking a position as a marketing & administrative assistant, and have professional experience and hope to use this as a jumping off point in the company/industry - don't. Look elsewhere. There is a huge gap between the brokers and "professionals" in marketing and research, and the "staff" whom are mostly marketing & administrative assistants, and receptionists. These marketing & administrative assistant positions vary from brokerage team to team, but in C&W corporate eyes- they are just an assistant. Lots of folks filling these positions have previous professional experience and higher education degrees and would like to grow into a professional position in brokerage, marketing or research but C&W does not offer anything like that. There are rare instances where people transition from this to another role in the company- typically someone with several years of experience will get into Operations/Human Resources, managing the "staff". But there is no track to get into brokerage, research, marketing, etc. If you want something more- you have to go elsewhere. -Lower than average compensation -Turnaround with regional operations management, and high turnaround in general because of the lack of growth opportunities -Lack of diversity -Lack of professional development (for staff)- the "professional track" for a marketing & administrative assistant is to work their way up to an executive assistant- like a caste system. There aren't resources for staff to learn more about other in-depth topics outside of their day to day workload. That being said, for brokers, there are great mentorship programs, training and continuing education.