Pluspunten
I used to have a lot of positives to say about this company. The old management trio were wonderful, supportive and genuinely cared about the people they worked with. They created a warm and lovely working environment where people wanted to contribute to the team. Once upon a time, the company was also very much for the growth of people and students. That was the biggest pro working at this company. Sad to say, this culture is going down the drain.
Minpunten
After the sale of the company, the previous management team dropped out one by one. With each person leaving the top team, the culture degraded. The new managerial team seems to be very well-loved by the Upper Management but these new managers know next to nothing. So many new faces and so many less than one year old staff turned into Managers. Yet, where are their capabilities? Every question posed to them turns into a long wait while they check with the next in line and the next in line. The supportive culture has also been destroyed by these new managers who happily throw people under the bus or throw their work at the downline while they are perpetually away for 'meetings with so and so'. Also, dont expect your managers to show you any sort of genuine care, concern or trust. They are only concerned with how you will impact their own job. If there are problems arising and you share your side of the story, they will tell you they need to "investigate and verify your claims" even though they were a part of the journey every step of the way themselves. Even if we were to ignore all the management changes or chalk it up to the sale to money-grabbers, the nail in the coffin is truly with the curriculum changes. Previously, the curriculum was rock solid. Personalised feedback drafted to our students to help them grow. Was it difficult? Of course, therefore our fellow teachers were also very hard to hire. Now, it is just rubrics. The teaching team is trying to sell it as an improved version. Our CEO is trying to sell it as wonderful. But the older teachers here all know that is just pure nonsense. Anyone with half a brain knows this is a step in our expansion process. It is hard to hire many good teachers for so many centres so you make the curriculum easier to teach so you can hire and retain more lower quality teachers. Yet, the company happily increases prices by absurd % for lesser quality given to the kids. This is purely a business decision. Where is the HEART in our values? Speaking of HEART, where is the honesty and integrity? If the newly installed top line can't lead by example and demonstrate integrity, surely we can't expect the mid-tier to do any better. And the promise to not make anyone on the old contract work on Sundays is obviously BS when there are people who were not given any choice BUT to work on Sundays because there is no budget to hire someone to do the Sunday work. Feedback given to the CEO regarding problems are no longer addressed the way they used to be. If you want to join this company, be prepared to be sucked into politics and bootlick people if you want to advance. I'm going to rate career opportunities as 5 because as long as you play ball, you can get a fancy title of Centre Manager. But don't think for a moment you are going to get a nice pay package. AWS is not guaranteed and you don't get nice bonuses either.