care coordinator

case manager

site director

grocery associate

program associate

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Chicago

What is the best part of working at the company?
client interaction and helping those in need to find affordable housing

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
working alone, no personal communication with supervisors, everything is done on teams or emails, no personal communications, answering emails from vendors, compliance departments, applicants, residents, walk-in clients all while maintaining your regular job responsibilities, not enough hors in a day to complete all tasks

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
very impersonal, your not a human being, unrecognized for work efforts, to many people to answer to, your just a worker and you are replaceable

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
stressful, chaotic, unfulfilling, disorganized

Low wages. No training. Have to use own transportation to get to clients. Increased gas and insurance costs. Horrible clients, often working in their filthy homes with lazy family members at all corners like leeches. Would have you working as if a maid. Only paid $10.55 an hour, no raises for 5 years! Finally  woke up from La-LA land and quit! Changed careers into manufacturing. Now pursuing a bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, striving to make 6-figures in 10 years. This is not a job to stay long at. Give yourself a max of two years and then either seek an internal promotion or continue your education and secure a higher paying job. Please don't waste years of your life working at this job like I did.


 

From what i've gathered from my experience with Catholic Charities, they lack visionaries at the management level. I believe the creators of the program for which I worked for are so complacent in their jobs that they care not for the culture that's begun to root itself in the company. Employees are lazy, complainers, and lots of the members of management are under qualified for the roles for which they serve and are only there because of their seniority and loyalty to the program. You have to work entirely too hard to get any recognition, but it is possible to move around in the company. It is such a large organization that lateral movement in the company is inevitable.

A typical day at work would be to prepare variuos forms for services to older seniors in need. Working at Catholic Charities was heart warming. Helping older seniors life change for the best, finding services for seniors and helping with meals to feed a hungry and disabled senior citizen was very rewarding. I learned to understand the needs of older senior citizens and various ways to assist them in staying in their holmes with the assistance of a homemaker. The hardest part of the job was to see so many seniors in need in the Chicago area.

Overall Catholic Charities is a great place to work.
The benefits include fair health care packages however major changes have been made in the last past 2 years.
Vacation and sick time pay is awesome
Workers and Management try their best to take good care of their employees
Pay is very low
Very unsafe work locations/conditions
Can be a truamatic however life long experience one will always remember

As a administrative assistant my job is to managed the offices essential issues.  Ordered supplies, maintained office equipment, ordered and purchased equipment such as computers, printers and copiers for the department.  Assisted with clients on a daily basis, when there were no workers available I was the worker.  When there was a problem with computers, printers or copiers they would call me if I couldn't fix it then it was a IT problem.

•	Scheduled appointments, sending follow up emails, making certain no overlaps occurred during tight schedules.
•	Promoted positive image by serving as warm and friendly first impression upon initial contact for valued visitors.
•	Participated in hiring processes by verifying references, conducting background checks and training newly hired.
•	Administratively screened calls, sorted mail, addressed visitors, answered questions and furnished information.

Catholic Charities is a wonderful place to work to gain experience and get hands on experience.
There is little room for growth and ability to climb up the latter, however there is room for lateral movement in different departments.
The environment is business casual and they are very understanding when it comes to time off.

Catholic Charities is a great company. Their benefit package is phenomenal. The agency is supportive. Work life balance is what you make of it. 3 late nights per week. They’re heavy on productivity, and are willing to work with you on how to reach it. Expectations are not too bad. The experience is what you make of it.  

The hardest part of the job was doing multitask duties at the same time. There was lack of an effective employee-boss communication which created poor direction, team work and leadership.

The most enjoyable part of the job was the job schedule and some nice employees events.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Care coordinator 37 salaries reported	$24.37 per hour
Case manager 24 salaries reported	$25.36 per hour
Site director 8 salaries reported	$26.19 per hour
Grocery associate 24 salaries reported	$19.54 per hour
Program associate 20 salaries reported	$19.86 per hour

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