Career Education Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Career Education full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Love my co-workers! Great work-life balance and focus. Good salary, especially for young adults first entering workforce; which is extremely common. Upper management make selves open and available to all and are. Yearly employee surveys, with followup of results, action plans, goals, and progress. Continual focus to attempt to increase employee morale and recognition. Structured monthly one-to-one employee-manager meetings and manager involvement of "next step" for advancement.

Cons – Recent schools closing announcements (23), 900 laid off and hundreds more imminent. Too many management, leaders, and layers (directors upon directors). Advancements not always given to most qualified; many 'chosen' ones climb the ladder extremely quickly. Disconnect among departments, especially between campuses and corporate. Regulatory and policies not always consistent with what is actually done.

Advice to Senior Management – You say you care about students and employees, talk integrity and excellence, but in reality, it's only talk. Senior management say to come to them; they listen and say will do something about, but never do. You have many quality systems and departments in place, but lack accountability and ensurance of the completion. Metrics in place to emphasize productivity, but these systems cause quality of work to be compromised.

Former Employee – worked at Career Education full-time for more than a year

Pros – Pay is competitive, that's it

Cons – Cutthroat enrvironment, more sexual harassment than you can imagine

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to be managers before attempting it

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Career Education as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – friendly people
wide variety of employees

Cons – they seem to have issues paying contract employees on time
attempting to be innovative with out researching
extremer quiet work environment

Advice to Senior Management – Research other education game companies before starting projects...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Career Education full-time for less than a year

Pros – Interview procecc went so smooth, was guided right through it. Makes one almost think of quantity over quality hmm???

Cons – Pay is low considering that it essentially is a sales job w/out commission (educational institutes apparently can't pay commissions/bonuses) so typically a higher salary applies. The work environment is extremely depressing w/managers coming down on the reps so hard that the employees tend to lose their confidence and decline in their enrollment numbers. Were there a morale boost and ongoing training efforts employees would do significantly better and there wouldn't be such a high employee turnover rate.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest more money in keeping up the teams morale boost + providing ongoing training & happiness at the work envirnment; And I guarantee you that student enrollment will go up as the employee turnover rate goes down.

Current Employee – been working at Career Education full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice working environment with a brand new state of the art home office building. Overall nice friendly co-workers to work around. Decent benefits and compensation in comparison to the industry.

Cons – High turnover of academic advisors who are the "sales" force. New federal regulations prohibit sales quotas for the industry however the company has found a loophole and continues to set sales quotas disguised as performance ratings.If an advisor fails to meet their quota they are "fired". 300%+ turnover annually. Upward mobility based more on who likes who and not who is more capable. Numerous instances of the more qualified and talented being passed over for promotion so that much less capable coworkers can be advanced. This contributes to the high turnover in the professional ranks. Company seems to not be able to make up it's mind what direction it wants to go. Constant changes every week to work processes.

Advice to Senior Management – Try harder to retain employees and don't just throw them away when they don't meet a quota. You are disrupting too many peoples lives when you do this.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Career Education as an intern for less than a year

Pros – great morale, fun environment, intelligent employees

Cons – Nothing to make a con about, very educational

Advice to Senior Management – relax and let reps do their job

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Career Education full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -Young group of workers
-Can make good friendships

Cons – - Low Morale
- Accountability not high
- Monotonous work

Advice to Senior Management – Need to value your employee better and better identify talent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Career Education as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Good pay , decent benefits, ok culture

Cons – Limited vertical opportunities and poor industry outlook

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Career Education as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Casual Fridays
Young workforce
Great Leadership Team

Cons – For full-time employees:
*Could do a better job in 401k matching
*Could be more generous with vacation days for new employees

Advice to Senior Management – Continue improving the brands. Reward talented admissions employees to help with employee retention rates. Continue working driving an ethical culture. Things will continue to improve.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Career Education full-time for less than a year

Pros – High salaries paid, new corporate facilities to bring employees from multiple buildings together

Cons – Whole company is dysfunctional, each brand operates independently, student recruiting practices are unethical, students graduate with piles of debt and look forward to low paying salary jobs

Advice to Senior Management – Reel em in. Do not let every brand create their own rules from scratch. Reuse the learned best practices

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company