H&R Block reviews about "training"

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2.0
Feb 3, 2023
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Pros

On paper, the pay is alright. There are real opportunities for career advancement. Salary pay guarantees steady paycheck January-May.

Cons

Training and support from leadership was wanting. Instead of coaching conversations, they basically tell you "get good" and ignore your calls. They make it extremely clear that the Tax Pros are the only ones that matter. Your job is to wrangle them and get them to force additional products on their clients. Job is seasonal, and in the pre-season your compensation is roughly half of your salaried role. Do you like having any days off? Forget it. You will know zero peace between January and May. $1200 per week is good money, unless you have to work 7+ hours every single day of the week to get it. There are no weekends. There are no scheduled days off. There is no support from upper management. You are constantly on-call, but not compensated for it in any way. The high rate of turnover for receptionists guarantees at least 3-5 calls every day to your personal phone. Just got done working your fifth 10-hour shift in a row to fix office problems that your manager neglected to mention for the past 3 months? Well, the document scanner failed to load half of the client files. Looks like you're dumpster diving in the secure shred bin. Have fun!

2.0
Feb 7, 2023

Manager

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Pros

Up to date Tax knowledge

Cons

Company rolls out a new products and new ways of doing things every year, offers little training, huge expectations and does not give the tools to execute plan. And they expect a ton out of elderly tax pro’s for less and less money every season.

3.0
Jan 18, 2023
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Pros

brand recognition, nice offices, good infrastructure, great training

Cons

difficult to establish clientele, revolving door of seasonal employees and managers, low pay, forced to market add-on products

4.0
Jan 30, 2023
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Pros

It's a good starting point to learn if you have no experience

Cons

McDonalds pays more to flip burgers than they want to pay you to process taxes starting out.

4.0
Feb 8, 2023

Fair company

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Pros

Good training every year to keep up.

Cons

Not enough hours after rush season

5.0
Feb 12, 2023

Excellent flexibility

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Pros

H&R Block has been great about allowing me to choose my schedule. And when I am able to pick up extra time I can. I also can clock in at home to do training and once I complete a partial training I can even work from anywhere. They are great about encouraging me to take more training and move up in to higher positions. They also offer a wide array of bonus opportunities for additional pay with referrals.

Cons

It is crazy and hectic. It is also mostly seasonal work but can come back season after season and work around another full or part-time year round job.

3.0
Jan 25, 2023
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Pros

good communication, a lot of helpful training

Cons

nothing but the pay is a little on the low side

4.0
Jan 23, 2023
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Pros

There are some very nice people working there. It’s a flexible schedule and you gain experience as well as learning a lot.

Cons

The retail aspect of it is a lot of pressure

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