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4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(26 total reviews)

70% positive business outlook

Mansfield Hall has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 26 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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26 reviews
1.0
Aug 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Free, unhealthy, low quality food if that’s considered a “pro.” Relationships built with the student population.

Cons

Would never recommend working here to anyone—this place deserves zero stars, but that’s not an option on Glassdoor. As stated in some other reviews, it is a very non-inclusive environment. You will only be rewarded if you enjoy being micromanaged and doing well at your job is taken for granted and any recognition for doing well is non-existent. A place where innovative ideas are discouraged and conformity to outdated practices is demanded. They lure applicants in by falsely advertising the job descriptions and titles for all “coach” roles. If you’re an “academic coach,” you’re just a tutor with a fancy title. If you’re a “life skills coach” you’re a caregiver/nanny with a fancy title. If you’re a “connections coach,” you’re an offsite caregiver/nanny with a fancy title. They do not empower students to make their own decisions, and will often encourage coaches to demand student participation in events, even in cases where some students have extreme anxiety related to social events. There were many evenings where I was the last staff member on site and witnessed many students have emotional breakdowns due to situations provoked by higher leadership (program directors), and I felt as though my training was inadequate/absent for de-escalating extreme situations with no other staff present. Another review on this website suggested that this role “could be more challenging for those who have difficulty taking initiative or who value a slower paced environment,” which is not true in any regard. Taking initiative and being innovative in this role is frowned upon from higher ups as they only subscribe to their own delusional, unprofessional, and outdated practices. This review also suggests that Mansfield Hall is a fast-paced environment, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Students are often very bored with the mundane activities that are approved by directors and coaches are the ones leading these mundane activities. Unless you consider cooking, cleaning or watching movies with students “fast-paced,” then this job will be very mundane and repetitive if anything. You don’t even need to have much “initiative” for these tasks. Please, if you are considering applying here, think again. There are other places that will treat you SO much better and value your input, ideas and creativity.

1.0
Sep 2, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The students are amazing, but that’s it.

Cons

What even is this place? It’s literally the worst place to work. Where to start even? This place was the most chaotic disorganized mess of an “organization” that I’ve ever seen. The program is now headed by the biggest egomaniacs that they could have have put in charge and they will take any change they can get to put women down and make them feel small and unimportant. If you’re a woman, be prepared to be assigned to an un-proportionally amount of cleaning and cooking tasks by them. None of the directors are qualified to be giving the pseudo-counseling/therapy conversations that they are having with the students but pretend to so they can collect a hefty paycheck. There was also one director who would intrude on students privacy by marching into their apartments and bang on their doors and yell at them while they were still in bed and demand that they come down and make food for his Wednesday barbecue and/or be “voluntold” to go volunteer at the senior center. All of this to make it look like their students were doing volunteer work for the community to save face for when the students parents would receive updates about their child. They then expect their coaches to do the same even if it’s extremely uncomfortable and a violation of any morals they might have. Coaches are basically nothing more than glorified nanny’s as you will also be expected to clean student apartments that didn’t get cleaned by unmotivated students in order for the company to also save face on parent weekends. If you hate cleaning up hair, toenail clippings and moldy food, this isn’t the job for you. Also parking is a nightmare. If you are a pm coach, you will frequently have to park blocks away because they don’t have space in their lot, or you will be blocking in one of the precious director’s cars and you will have to move your vehicle like six times before the night is finished just so they can get out of the lot. If you’re an am coach, expect to have your car blocked in. Also if you don’t have summer camp work experience, you won’t be a pet of the directors. Basically avoid this place at all costs because they won’t care about you, just saving face for parent conversations and parent weekends so they can ultimately put more money in their own pockets. That’s all there is to this shallow shell of place that pretends to care about neurodivergent young people.

1.0
May 10, 2022

Would not recommend

Recommend
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Pros

Mindless and busy work Lots of meetings Little supervision Free food Could be flexible

Cons

No support Uncomfortable “professional” culture Fear-based / self protective mindset with supporting students Bad food Lack of supervision. Within one month, for staff quit. Upper staff didn’t step in to support the overwhelming caseload. Students pay very high amount to go to this program and often felt as if they came off entitled, out of touch, and associated. Team did not seem to care that students spent on average nine hours on cell phones. However would care if students looked bad to the public eye

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