residential advisor

career counselor

security officer

registered nurse

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Career Systems Development Corporation

Management was really bad where the high turnover is involved. If you ask around, majority of the people are new and even then, majority of the people stated that they want to leave or only here for the money. There will always be 1-3 departments where they are low in staff. There were always people getting fire or trying to quit that made me feel like when am I going next because if management don't like you, they will try to find a way to fire you.  During my first few months here, there were a lot of new co-workers who got fired because they didn't know a certain expectation or process that was taught to us. Management always stated that they want real-time feedback, but when we do give it where we stated that management has favoritism or change a certain part of management, it mainly offended them as attacking them. But, if it was the other way around, it is ok. There is this culture within the lower level workers where it is being said that we should be quiet and just do your job that they want minimumly or we are going to get fired, which then made me more uncomfortable here. It was also stated that there is no point of going all out because it is draining and no real changes are going to happen. There is really no growth or not much advancement here as like I said, no feedback is welcome. It did become better, but it took so much months to get there when it would have been done if management and everyone actually listen in the first place.

Training is bad as well as it is more like you learn as you go, if you make an mistake then you are being threatened that you will get fired or potentially will get fired.

The students are great! They are very understandable if you would just listen to them and give them our perspective. There are a few that might gives you a headache, but at the end of the day, they are great students who just want to succeed and want to bond with the workers. It is a little sad because the students notice the bad communication and vibes that management give that they also wants to leave asap as well. 

I would recommend this place if you like chaos and hostile environment. I strongly this place got potential, but it is not at its best at the moment until management gets better and the teams/departments become more United. I love the program and the work we doing. Feedback needs to be more welcome, constructive critism needs to be established, communications need to be better, departments need go listen to one another about their ways of doing things, have a process where we can evaluate the higher up too, management needs to be good role models, and more meetings with each departments to navigate how we can make each department better.

Job Corps students are normally coming onto our center with a lot of trauma, developmental/mental health issues, and having been kicked out of other schools in the past. With this in mind, you would imagine the school would promote a trauma-informed, strengths-based environment along with promoting self-care among employees.

Nothing can be further from the truth. Students are treated like children, even though staff preaches, "Act like adults!" All the teachers are beyond burned out. And leadership, from the top down, only cares about one thing: numbers. "Retention, Retention, Retention" is the mantra. Rather than, "How can we be most effective at providing services that will promote retention", they add rules and more punitive measures that only serve to terminate the students with the highest need.

Management is more concerned with keeping their jobs than taking care of their staff. Zero teamwork, zero comraderie, zero support. Those with progressive, evidence based ideas are viewed as disruptors of the status quo. Most managers have worked there for 10-30 years, so the old school "tough love" approach that has never been effective continues to be the norm here. The old, "These kids don't know any better so we gotta show em" mentality is strong. And it also applies to how leadership treats its employees.

In closing, the students here are truly uncanny and a true joy. I loved serving all of my students. I could not stand the micromanaging, focus on weaknesses rather than strengths, gossipy, cut throat culture. Applicants beware...

There are good people that work on center, but unfortunately because Job Corps and Career Systems Development are government funded, the higher ups bend to the people making the contracts and throwing the money. That means that you will not be given any raises (very minuscule if any are given), and room for growth is little to none. Some staff at Job Corps have worked for more than 10 years without a pay raise. The head HR and main administrative people do not care how hard you work, you'll be reviewed the same as all staff for doing their job. 

Very discouraging and simply a group of corporate people, trying to make their quota for recruiting students, and show disregard when staff and managers question their practices and ethics. The main administrators have a mentality that students must be treated like children no matter what, and give the "too bad so sad" routine when you aren't moving up. On top of that, there are communication issues that get passed down to departments.

There are great staff and students to work with here despite these issues and many are wonderful to speak to, but this is not a place for someone looking to build their career or skills up over time. This is more like charity work, because you'll continue to earn the base minimum for a lot of stress and hard work. I would not recommend Job Corps for any individual, who wants to advance and not deal with others willing to work you and your team into the ground.

They state these as their Core Values of Safety, Individual Accountability, Respect, Integrity, Growth and Commitment.
But the truth is they don’t. The students are never held accountable for their actions. Security is viewed as a negative department by HR and the Center Administration. No integrity, you write a report and they throw it out if it means loosing a student who has a history of assaulting other students. They call it misunderstood and sweep it under the rug. The only growth and commitment is by the administration and that’s is their egos and wallets. Security is seen more as a concierge service then anything else. We deliver food to the students who don’t leave there rooms. The policies imposed by the administration are in conflict with what administration “wants” security to do. Your more likely to get written up for telling students to social distance rather then writing them up, because the write ups would just get thrown out anyways. 
The pay is not competitive with other security firms in the area, and they treat you like dirt. No one respects security and your the first one to get blamed when something goes missing, even if it’s a student who sneaks off campus after curfew. 

I never knew one person could ruin your day. This place is to help people find jobs to get through the rough patches in their lives. The real head of this establishment, has all the other supervisors over her; scared to fire her. She makes everyone's life miserable there and when it comes to helping the actual people she is there to help; oh boy, watch out. Heartless, verbally abusive and unhappy in her own life. I would not recommend anyone to work there and I would encourage anyone down on their luck to go to labor ready or anything comparable before they go to any social service place that would lead them to have to deal with this snide individual. The job I had was a good job that I may have otherwise stayed at because I am not one to jump from job to job. In this case, I just walked out of this place because one thing will always stand true; misery loves company. I am not miserable and I did not let this pathetic individual steal my joy. We all have faults, yes. That right there is: intentional nastiness, petty, ridiculously uncalled for degradation that no one should have to tolerate.Thank you for this platform.

Job Corps is a wonderful and stable place to work with many growth opportunities. The program is definitely meant for professionals with a strong work ethic and ability to be self-sufficient. If you struggle with either of those qualities, it may not be a place of work for you.

Overall, I enjoy the mission of Job Corps. I love giving back to my community and feel like we are really giving our students real-life opportunities to succeed. The relationships I've built with my applicants are irreplaceable. It's truly a privilege to work with the young adults we get to work with.

As for work-life balance, as long as it's a priority to you, it's achievable. Create your boundaries! Also, I love that I get flexibility in my schedule. As an Outreach & Admissions Counselor, if I wanted to attend a community event on the weekend, it's easy for me to take work off during the week. As long as you are putting in that work, management isn't a huge concern. 

Lastly, this role has definitely helped me make great connections with professionals from similar programs! It's a great way to build relationships with like-minded people.

I used to work for CSD for just under two years. The students are by far the best part about the job and helping them was truly rewarding. The company was trying to implement a new “ leadership” culture and while I believe their intentions were good, there was no clear end goal or vision as far as where this new approach was leading the company and what they wanted as a result. Also the pay was not great and many staff went years without getting a raise, or they finally got a raise and it was literally 1%… insulting. I hope they can learn to compensate employees fairly because i know other people agreed with me when I was there.

Also the employee handbook said employees could be reimbursed up to 100% of tuition costs for any college coursework that was relevant to their position, however this is literally completely false from what I was told. 

I would never recommend working for this company, as the pay is terrible and people’s morale is even worse. A majority of staff are “checked out” daily, simply going through the motions instead of having an interest in teaching. And who can really blame them?

The pay is offensive.
The management uses people from other departments to cover for the staff that quite their own department.
The students railroad anyone who tries to hold them accountable. 
Staff suffer verbal, and at times physical, abuse often from students with no real backing of management. 
Advancement is a perk only for those who get in good with the upper crust. 
It will take you a year to get half a week of PTO. 
They took away a lot of the perks we previously had at our location such as free lunch for staff that do cafeteria duty. 
Many of us pick up secondary jobs because the teachers pay is so low. It’s wven lower in other departments. 

All in all I highly recommend against working for this company. Get a job in fast food management, you’ll get better pay and benefits.

No support from corporation or upper management. If you and another employee have a problem, they automatically side with the female/gay/minority and you are wrong, regardless (they want to avoid a lawsuit at all costs). Lot of talk about employees being valued, but not shown. Employees will never get a raise once hired (people there for 7+ years have gotten no raises whatsoever), and each year the benefit package keeps going up and up so that eventually you are making less and less each year. Private sector pays more and supports you more than this place ever will. As a manager, you are expected to fill in when employees call out, and since they get PTO, they call out constantly. Almost impossible to fire a bad employee, so they're around in every department. They talk about avoiding a "toxic environment", but create it themselves by allowing people to abuse the PTO system and keeping bad employees on the payroll.

I am always happy to go to work for CSD, and many ppl cant say that about their employers, even though i havent been with the company for years, just my experience in this last year, has been fruitful, and a whole new learning experience, that I'm grateful for. The 1 problem I'm witnessing is the contract with the Government, and the prolonging it is taking, how it is affecting my coworkers, who have been here awhile, and who have gone through a contractor transition, and until you have heard the process, you cant really understand the stress some ppl are under, which can and has affected the staff and students culture, but I do feel that we need to just stay focused and be the team the students and center need, we will push through to great and fruitful new beginnings, that is what Im striving for.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Residential advisor 58 salaries reported	$22.27 per hour
Career counselor 26 salaries reported	$24.44 per hour
Security officer 45 salaries reported	$22.84 per hour
Registered nurse 18 salaries reported	$41.76 per hour
Instructor 2 salaries reported	$59,885 per year

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