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The job offer came just hours after my first and only interview, a speed that raised some red flags. Despite my reservations, I accepted the offer.  During our week of orientation, which saw over 20 new hires in our small Center, the Joliet Job Corps personnel were exceptional, treating us with utmost professionalism.  However, the company that operated the Job Corp Center, Strategix Management, soon intervened.  We were initially told that Strategix was a company that valued questions, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. This turned out to be a misleading claim, a discovery that filled us with disappointment and a sense of betrayal.

Strategic Management's Corporate Purchasing department presented me with what they called a Purchasing Manual, but it was, in fact, a Purchasing Policy. This discrepancy, where a manual is a series of steps to achieve an objective, and a policy is a set of guidelines or rules to establish an objective, was a glaring sign of the company's lack of transparency and competence.  This document was Policy No. 3.4.01, and within this doc, it referred you to 3.4.28, which didn't exist, and when I questioned it, I was told, "Oh, we haven't gotten to it yet. I had a lot of questions about the lack of openness or disclosure of information related to end-to-end processes. I even offered to create process workflows that would accommodate the policy, but it was unwelcome, resulting in my separation from the company only after 3 months. 

So, I advise you to run as fast as you can if you see or hear Strategix Management LLC! It's an immature company that lacks the processes, systems, or people to improve its operations.

If you're passionate and keen on getting into the field of social work and assisting troubled youth, you'll get that at times here. Otherwise, your job title is essentially irrelevant as you can be expected to play the part of every department, whether that is recreation, dormitories, security, driver, career prep, or substitute teacher. This is primarily a result of high turnover and poor morale as the company invests only in maximizing on-boarded students, while at the same time downsizing departments and staff. The students truthfully are the best part of the job but they deserve much better, as there is poor upkeep within both the facility and the dormitories, and concerns regarding their safety are often not followed up upon or addressed. I can believe I have grown personally and professionally here in my time in this position, but I will not be present either to see the day major changes are implemented here. 

I strongly advise against working for this company. It’s clear that the well-being of employees and students is not a priority. Upper management is unprofessional, dismissive, and unresponsive when concerns are raised. There is absolutely no support or accountability, and communication is severely lacking across all levels.

Training is minimal to non-existent, yet you’re expected to take on overwhelming workloads for inadequate pay. There’s no opportunity for growth or development, and employee efforts go unrecognized.

The recent shutdown of all Job Corps programs was handled terribly. Staff and students were given only days to leave, creating chaos, fear, and heartbreak—students were left crying, some with nowhere to go, and staff were suddenly left without jobs. The company has offered no assistance, no transparency, and no care in how they treat their workforce.

It’s unacceptable to work for a company that lays off employees without warning or support. Please think twice before applying here—your time and dedication deserve far better.


The job in itself was fulfilling, it was just the people that work there. It is a very unprofessional environment. If you are used to working at jobs where they have clear communication practices please lower your expectations. After three weeks of working here I did have to quit. There was so much miscommunication and no effort to work on it between my manager and coworkers in my department. I am completely appalled in how disorganized this company is for working with under privilege youth. I believe that more people should be hired that have experience in these situations or like to at least help people through it. As i’ve stated before, the job in itself is fulfilling, but it doesn’t help that the people working for this this job are more worried about numbers than the students. Even if it had to do with the numbers, there should atleast be more clear communication to work on that as well as help the students who are incoming to the campus.

it's a young company with lofty ideals that management will try to sell you on, but the day to day challenge is dealing with a gross overstep of boundaries. working into dinnertime, phone calls after 10pm, "emergency" meetings on weekends. management generally has a hard time defining scope of work, so they let clients walk all over them. if your team is over capacity, RUN. They will make you do all jobs possible until it's no longer sustainable (burnout). Management has a hands-off, relaxed approach which means very little training during onboarding, and no mentorship after that. Low involvement and unrealistic high expectations creating even higher turnover (3 people either quit or were let go in the times i was there). definitely fast paced and challenging, but not a sustainable work environment. 

Strategix is an outstanding small business 8A firm that is in its beginning stages of winning government contracts.  The CEO is an outstanding leader and visionary that is effectively winning government contracts in various areas of the government.  While the business is still very small, It is aggressively attempting to bid on government contracts and will be successful in winning and operating them.  Due to current government shut down it is having a heavy impact on its ability to pay senior leadership team but I am confident that once the shutdown is over they will be able to recover and continue its efforts to secure additional contracts to support a strong leadership team.

While the work itself is meaningful, mostly because of the students we serve, the overall experience with this management company has been difficult. There is very little training or onboarding, so staff often have to rely on coworkers to figure things out. At the same time, expectations are still high, even without the support needed to meet them.

Leadership is not very present or accessible, except when outside oversight like Department of Labor visits are expected. This creates a noticeable disconnect between corporate leadership and what staff deal with on a daily basis.

Working with students is rewarding, but the lack of support from management makes the job more challenging than it needs to be. It also often feels like they have a limited understanding of the population being served.

I'm hard-pressed to find anything positive to say about Strategix. The turnover is unlike anything I have ever seen; they show extremely questionable judgment in the management staff they choose to retain at Job Corps. It's also treated more like a warehouse than a place where students can get meaningful help. They just want as many bodies in the door as possible. If you're looking for professional training and supervision, look elsewhere. This is not the company for professionals who truly care about helping people (unless you enjoy being taken advantage of). 

The job its self is not to bad, but it was hard to get help as a new employee get the right training or the supplies you need for the job. Work culture could be better with fellow employees and upper management as in corporate low ball employees a lot when it comes to pay and don’t help the team for success all they do is lay people off after giving them false information about the job to get them to join and than tell them they are going to drop your position so take less pay or we are going to let you go. And i mean a lot less pay. So know your screwed and didn’t do anything wrong so chose carefully.

It is a difficult place to work and they tend to create their own cliques and factions of folks that stick together. I loved working with my students while soarinf through  various adverse challenges. While i learned a lot and many colleagues were supportive and helpful, the management and hr were very unprofessional, unknowledgeable, and disrespectful often sowing discord and competitiveness among the staff. If there was a great manager in place the trend is that most are very transient once they discover the lack of professionalism and inconsistency of rules.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Instructor 5 salaries reported	$63,368 per year
Counselor 1 salary reported	$68,640 per year
Human resources manager 2 salaries reported	$72,500 per year
Mathematics teacher 1 salary reported	$51,000 per year
Security officer 3 salaries reported	$18.82 per hour

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