Huntington Learning Centers reviews

If you're interested in working in an environment educating young minds, Huntington Learning Center is absolutely not the place for you. If you're interested in sales or business, this job may be a better fit for you. Working at two Huntington Learning Centers has been an absolutely terrible experience. I first worked as a part-time teacher and then applied to be the Assistant Director of Education because I was desperate for a full-time job. I was grossly underpaid both as a teacher and as Assistant Director. I would often work close to fifty hours a week (as a full-timer) and would hardly ever have time to take lunch. As the Assistant Director, I was responsible for conducting visits to local businesses and forming partnerships. I had to do 100 or more of those a month, which is a completely unrealistic expectation considering all the other responsibilities that fall under the Assistant Director. As an Assistant Director, you're supposed to be in the Center managing the part-time teachers, monitoring the students' progress, evaluating prospective students' academic performance, grading exams, interviewing, hiring, and training multiple part-time teachers per month, creating the weekly student-staff schedule, bringing in a certain percentage of the monthly revenue, and managing payroll. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the responsibilities. The training provided to you before you start the job won't mean much to you unless you've worked at a Huntington as a teacher. Even if you do have previous Huntington experience, the learning curve will be tough. You also won't be trained on all of the programs offered by the Center, but you'll be expected to know about them when parents inquire. Additionally, you'll have to be able to train the part-time staff under you, which is difficult when you've never even been trained yourself on these programs. You will be expected to hire multiple teachers per month, but you're forced to offer them an insulting wage, so don't expect to actually hire many of the people you can manage to pull in for an interview because they won't (and shouldn't) work for peanuts. Scheduling is also another nightmare. Students often call out, and you're blamed for not convincing the students to come in for their sessions. The part-time teachers will be upset with you when they're waiting in-center for the student to come, and the student calls out five minutes before the session or simply does not show up at all. Then management will get on your case about your part-time payroll numbers being too high. Some teachers come from a bit of a distance, and they technically are supposed to be paid for an hour if their students cancel. They'll be upset that you're not able to give them pay for the full amount of time that they were scheduled. Management will be upset that you need to pay a teacher who is not teaching. It can be difficult to work with multiple students at one time because they're all working on something different. For this reason, you may have a hard time helping the students you are working with. For example, if you're working with one student and another two finish their work and start acting up, you will have to figure out a way to keep the situation under control. You might have to divert your attention from the first student, who may go off task. This type of classroom management should not necessarily be a problem for experienced teachers, but it could be a challenge for newcomers to the profession. In terms of marketing, in addition to visiting an absurd amount of local businesses, you will have to do cold calls to families. Management will try to convince you that you're not doing cold calls because you will be calling families that had previously enrolled in the center, but these are, in fact, cold calls because you do not know these families personally; these families may have enrolled their children several years before you were even hired. You also don't know what type of experiences these families had with the company, so expect to have some parents confused and/or annoyed that you're calling. The hours are incredibly long, and you may often get stuck working late. Don't expect any overtime because this is a salaried position. As the Assistant Director, you may also be responsible for bringing in part of the monthly budget. If you enjoy sales, this may not be a problem for you. If you're interested in Huntington Learning Center as an educator, this may be tough for you.