Career Education Reviews

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

Pros – nice people, decent pay and benefits

Cons – Many people don't know what they are doing. Advancement is very political. Kind of a soul crushing to witness large amounts of student debt everyday.

Advice to Senior Management – I'd recommend getting a firm understanding of your processes and then revamp the entire system to create more cohesion between departments

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 full-time for more than a year

Pros – pay is decent, a new employee can make as much as $40k a year with full benefits. Even if you're terrible at your job you can easily slip through the cracks and go unnoticed long enough to find a better job

Cons – You are not an "admissions adviser", you are sales person. Your role is to enroll every person they transfer to you no matter what kind of education they are looking for. You're "trained" to talk veterans into blindly signing over their education benefits for a degree that is pretty much useless.

Micromanagement CONSTANTLY.

 Multiple supervisors to answer to

The company is falling apart under mismanagement. They are constantly changing everything. In the last year I've had over a half dozen supervisors. The company is constantly under the scrutiny of the department of education for it's policies and mismanagement

Advice to Senior Management – Cut your losses and pull out of the education business. You have no idea what you are doing and are harming far too many people in the process

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 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 full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Compensation is fair after the Department of Education began more closely regulating for-profit education. Benefits and time off are decent as well.

Cons – Vety little training, even less opportunity for advancement. Very high turnover. This is an inside sales position, don't be fooled by the job title. You have metrics you are judged on. If you aren't successful within the first couple weeks of employment, you will be let go. You will work odd hours and weekends as well.

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 more than 8 years

Pros – The organization is unwilling to fire employees who make unethical decisions and purposefully violate their own policies and procedures, if you are one of these people you are safe.

Cons – Leaders have terrible ethics. The business model has been designed to load students with debt, then place them in low wage jobs where they cannot repay loans. Unacceptable decisions made at all levels of the organization that break accreditation criteria, break laws, and purposefully make things appear better than they are.

Advice to Senior Management – Start behaving ethically.

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

Pros – Good salary and benefits. Strong people at the middle management level

Cons – Very poor leadership at tne senior level

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 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

Current Employee – been working at Career Education full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Health insurance and 401(k) benefits.

Cons – Horrible micromanagement. They look for quantity over quality.

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 more than a year

Pros – I had a great supervisor who was always supported me and gave great advice.

Cons – The upper management took little interest in the welfare of the students and my interaction with the students always had the underlying question "how can I get their money?"

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