Good short term job, bad long term prospects - Implementation Consultant Fast Enterprises Employee Review

Thank you for your honest and constructive feedback. FAST defines career success and progress this way: 1) Employees have financial security and compensation that increases over time. 2) They work within a supportive community with people they like, respect, and learn from, a community that extends beyond the workplace and includes their families. 3) Employees face new challenges regularly. They meet these challenges with the support of their teammates and in the process gain knowledge, develop new skills, and grow their responsibilities. 4) Employees’ efforts improve society and serve the public good. 5) Employees and FAST benefit from a symbiotic relationship wherein both are loyal to one another, act in a spirit of concern and mutual benefit for one another, and work to improve one another. Employees are not treated indifferently as replaceable commodities and FAST is not treated indifferently as a source of income or as a steppingstone. FAST does develop the knowledge and skills of its employees. However, we do so for the purpose of helping FASTies be as effective as possible at FAST, serving FAST clients. We do not develop our employees for the purpose of making them “marketable” to another company. We believe the skills FASTies learn have great value to other organizations, but that is not our focus. If there is additional training or certification that interests you and you think will benefit your work at FAST, we encourage you to speak to your Project Manager, HR or a Partner. While “job hopping” is more common these days, it remains to be seen whether it results in greater satisfaction or benefit for people over the long run. We believe in encouraging people to pursue their goals, whether or not that means staying with FAST, no matter how long they’ve already been here. Though you choose to see your situation in a negative light, it is important to recognize that where you work is, ultimately, a reflection of your priorities and your personal choice. While some people like yourself may stay with FAST for the negative reasons you describe, many more of our employees tell us they stay because their definition of career success and progress aligns more closely with ours. In the spirit of continual improvement, and working to improve the FAST experience for employees, at this time there are actually changes in the works related to your recommendations for improvement.