I want to start by saying I was looking forward to growing my career at Keypath. I was a HUGE advocate and took immense pride in being part of the Placement Team, but for the last couple of months, the department has really changed for the worse. It starts and ends with the people in leadership and them not holding their direct reports, or each other, accountable.
-No support from leadership - the leadership in this department has a lot of room for opportunity. The number of times that I've brought up to my manager how unsupported, othered, and isolated from my team I feel while having to work with them daily is concerning. Even more concerning is when you provide that vulnerable feedback multiple times, and nothing changes. A lot of the managers and ADs are in their role for the first time in their careers, and while I get they might still be learning, I fail to see where there is any ongoing professional development of these managers so that they can do their jobs better and be better leaders for their team that they're supposed to lead/support.
-Being undervalued - be prepared for your skills to be undervalued in this department. It's like they look for highly qualified folks with advanced degrees (talking masters and doctorates), but then treat them like they're just the average joe in an entry-level role. If you're going to hire people for their skills and talent, let us use them. Especially if their experience is vaster than the first-time managers/ADs, y'all should be leaning and learning from the talent you have, not going on power kicks.
-High School all over again - this is the reason I even started planning my exit strategy from the company. I would have loved to transfer to a different department but haven't seen any openings as of late. Everyone loves you when you start, but once you begin trying to hold your peers and co-workers accountable (because the managers won't do it) and help one another for the common mission (providing students a stress-free placement experience) that admiration is replaced by clique behavior, passive aggressive teams messages and emails, and clear bias. And yes, leadership is in on it too.
