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Joliet Junior College

What is the best part of working at the company?
The professionalism and efficiency of those in charge of preparing the classrooms for teachers to succeed.  I taught a class on Saturdays and knew that I could rely on the support staff to have my copies ready when I arrived on Saturday morning.  The technology was always ready for any application I needed to use.  I appreciated the effort to make the class and students successful.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They were good at keeping it stress free.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Didn’t have much interaction since I was there on Saturday 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Long because of the Saturday but rewarding.

I love my department, I have a strong fair minded dedicated manager. My colleagues are supportive, and hard working. There are people here who advocate and work hard for the students, especially marginalized students. 

That said, you will not get hired full time, you will not be promoted to full time, and for every new holiday they add, every traditional holiday, every sick day and summer hours they implement, you will not get paid. Everything that is successful here happens at a grass roots level and is in spite of, not because of, the higher ups. This place would be outstanding if they stopped engaging in the elitist, unethical and out of touch game of short changing good employees so they don’t have to give them what they deserve and work hard for. 

As an adjunct English instructor, I was not on campus usually more than 3 days a week for about 4-5 hours a day.  Faculty members were generally quite helpful in sharing teaching tools and ideas for in-class work.  I had a very good relationship with my students, and they seemed to respond well to me.  JJC offered much to its students, i.e. numerous clubs, tutoring centers, academic counseling, etc.  While I loved teaching and working with my students, the only part of the job that could get frustrating was all the essays to grade because I wanted to be sure the students knew exactly what mistakes they were making.

As a Peer Career Advisor, I ... 
●	Assisted students with on and off campus job search
●	Presented Career Services overview presentations in classes
●	Maintained, updated and promoted Career Services events and programs via social media
●	Scheduled student appointments with appropriate advisors report end of month evaluations for each advisor
●	Collaborated with team on all event preparation and created and distributed flyers to promote events.
Working in the Career Services Department allowed me to help students with their Career and that is something I truly enjoyed.

Patrolling as well as writing of parking citations.  Usage of radio system.  The officers were nice and willing to give any help we needed while keeping an eye on the campus.  My co-workers were great to be around and very helpful.  there were a lot of dangerous situations that I was presented with.  Knowing every inch of the college campus and all the people that worked there was a great experience as well as all the credit I received for my studies.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The students and helping them find their life path. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Cliques within the employees and upper management.  

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If you don't fit the mold of their perception you're an outcast and ignored. They will create ways to fire you. They have a 6 month probation and can fire you for any or no reason. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
8am - 430pm. Ignored, degraded, yelled at, embarrassed.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The interaction with other professors is outstanding. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being an adjunct you never know how many, if any, classes you will be assigned.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very diverse and it seems students and staff are are enjoying the environment.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Teaching one class after another, sometimes going to other buildings on campus.

I love teaching at Joliet Junior College. My classes are 8 hours long but I only teach twice a week. The most difficult part of my job has been hours being reduced since we unionized. I am an adjunct faculty and we are only allowed one class per semester. I enjoy all aspects of my job from teaching lecture and evaluating skills. But most of all I love my students and the residents at the nursing homes where we do clinicals.

The campus is wonderful. Colleagues are helpful and amazing. Their dedication to the students despite being short changed, underpaid, and undervalued by administration is unbelievable. They only hire part time for the majority of their roles. No pay for holidays, and there are a lot of holidays. No budgets, especially for disability services and other under valued non public facing departments. Out of touch administration, and the union is useless. 

The overall environment of the job is very positive. My co-workers are always positive and the customers are usually very respectful. Training is pretty easy in the Food Service Department and all you really need to do is just get a Food Handlers Permit and that's really it. Fairly easy to get in and fairly easy to get to work. 

You get to met new people and learn many new things from being on the job. So if you're looking for a job for the first time, here is absolutely not a bad spot.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Office assistant 6 salaries reported	$17.40 per hour
Administrative assistant 7 salaries reported	$23.26 per hour
Student employee 17 salaries reported	$15.12 per hour
Faculty 13 salaries reported	$87,763 per year
Tutor 8 salaries reported	$16.38 per hour

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