US Air Force Reviews

Pros

Service to USA
Opportunities for promotion
overseas experiences

Cons

long hours
deployments of up to a year long
family separations

Pros

Serving your country.
Decent work ethics.
Job security.

Cons

Lazy individuals.
Budget cuts.
Long work weeks.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to ensure that all departments are working together and inprove on communication skills between upper leadership.

Pros

Solid Pay, Great benifits, Exciting opportunities

Cons

Mobility Requirements, (But they can be great too

Pros

Great start to a career. Learned how the government and the beauracracy involved in the DOD. They emphasize career growth and mobility.

Cons

Terrible processes. What takes a company a few hours to complete, it takes the AF weeks. Slow to get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

Remove the beauracracy. It impedes motivation

Pros

Great training, great people, good locations, a lot of opportunity, good pay, great benefits

Cons

Sometimes leadership is not good, and it is hard to move to another position away from them in a timely manner

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure that people balance work with family - work to live, don't live to work.

Pros

Tons of professional development opportunities. Get to see the world. Fair and equitable promotion system. Get to serve your country. Frre college benefits, and dental, vision, and medical benefits for the whole family.

Cons

May not make as much as private sector peers.

Pros

The people are very professional and a great reason to show up to work. The flexibiity of the work schedule is outstanding. Prior to governmenrt cuts civil servicde was one of the more stable organizations.

Cons

Government cuts decrease stability, not worth lower salary

Pros

We get free healthcare and great benefits. Housing and food is paid for. Recognition is given where it is due. Advancement is based on your own abilities and knowledge of the job

Cons

It may be difficult for lower ranks with bigger families to make ends meet at times. Food pay does not change based on dependents, so no dependents or three dependents have the same amount of money allotted for food. Management has a lack of communication at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Please think of how certain decisions will affect everyone, not just yourself and people around you. All in all not really any complaints

Pros

Service to your country and honor.

Cons

Poor preparation for your next career.

Pros

you can get to do some really cool things for your country!! Experiences are above anything else out there. great travel and dealing with weapons of imaginable power are just a few things you can experience

Cons

sometimes you will be called upon to support potentially unpopular events around the world. living conditions around the world can be described as squaller, without a doubt! If you can deal with this, you are good to go!

Advice to Senior Management

i would suggest that leaders listen to their people and practice what they preach. often times they provide great lip service, but that is about it.