Corinthian Colleges Reviews

Pros

Diversity of staff and varied experiences across the board, and even more diversity within the student body. Solidarity among my peers who are simialarly new to industry and expectations therein.

Cons

Apparent lack of communication both top-down (i.e., management to director (supervisor) to new hires (self)) as well as interdepartmentally (i.e., Career Services).

Advice to Senior Management

Conduct daily or even weekly "check-in" meetings during the new hire training period in order to maintain a sense of unity and collective understanding across the team/department (ultimately of enormous benefit to the students whose needs we primarly serve) as well as to keep everyone, whether new to Corinthian or not, whether industry-experienced or entry-level (in the proprietary education field) up to speed with recent changes or upcoming events, etc.

Pros

The only pros currently are the benefit package that is offered

Cons

Poor leadership, little training, lack of vision shared with campuses. No job security

Pros

Salary and total compensation package

Cons

Management , hours, admissions department allowing any type of candidate to be enrolled

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to lower level management

Pros

Co-workers gel well together. The job is pretty consistent.

Cons

There is absolutely no room for advancement. The pay could be better. You have late nights and Saturday work hours. There is a lack of trainings. When something changes, the information is usually passed around through the grapevine. The morale of employees drops to real lows and nothing is done to uplift morale. Employees are dispendable not valued.

Advice to Senior Management

Communication, communication, communication. Management needs to communicate better with their employees.

Pros

Relaxed environment as long as work is being completed

Cons

Not enough communication provided to employees from direct managers

Pros

Student centered. I believe senior managers would like to make a difference in the opportunities that students can enjoy upon graduation but they don't know how to accomplish.

Cons

Senior Mgmt near sighted. Mgmt has a difficult time at understanding the complexities of education and producing long term opportunities for students.

Advice to Senior Management

Clearly think out issues before making decisions. Understand long term implications of decisions. Figure out the right way of doing things and stick to it. Don't let personalities drive decisions. Develop operational procedures and stick to it. Don't let local campus' ruin the franchise. C Level managers know how to run schools but they are letting campus leaders run a muck. Lousy leaders between corporate and campus.

Pros

Great salary, recognition for doing well, lots of fun work parties and food, great benefits including dental and vision (IF FULL TIME), lots of overtime offered.

Cons

Political environment, gossip, routine, felt I was given awards to keep me quite instead of promoting me...

Advice to Senior Management

More work force management, why hire from the outside when you have plenty of capable employees already...

Pros

Regionals and below are driven and care about the students they speak with. The money is good an the benefits.

Cons

The GM and VP's are aware of how they disregard their staff as humans with families. Pockets are big and so are their egos.

Advice to Senior Management

Care about the people. They pay you

Pros

Great people to work with.

Cons

Reward and recognition is based on politics rather than competence.
Business model is not the best for the student.

Pros

Great boss and very receptive to new ideas. Lots of room to grow.

Cons

Needs more interdepartment communication. Difficult to navigate who is the correct person to go to for necessary informatoin due to the size of the company.