UTI Reviews

Pros

It is a laid back environment where everything revolves around the cars and students.
It is a professional atmosphere where you feel apart of a team.
Pay is pretty good and is definitely competitive

Cons

The training aspect sucks.
Some of the management are less competent than others under them.
Seems like nothing really gets done

Advice to Senior Management

Provide better training for new hires and for current employees.

Pros

good pay rate diverse enviroment

Cons

to much work,delegate more

Advice to Senior Management

delegate more

Pros

Fun is a core value and one the company totally supports by promoting various events through out the year.
Family type atmosphere
Changes in leadership over the last few years seems to be good for the company

Cons

Promotions in some areas often do not make sense.
Organization seems to be top heavy, lots of managers, directors.
Support for IT infrastructure and development is lacking.

Advice to Senior Management

More focus on worker bees, less focus on manager, directors and senior leaders.

Pros

The employees and managers really believe in the mission of the company and they really care about every single student.

Cons

Alot of backstabbiong and gossip between alot of the managers make it really tense to work there. On the surface everybodys really nice thiugh.

Pros

Pay is competitive within the education sector. Seeing students graduate and being successful with something they love to do.

Cons

-- Management who has never worked a day in your job and has zero idea of what you deal with but are charged with "coaching" you.
-- "Leaders" who don't stand up for their employees but rather continue to browbeat per corporate management. Too many corporate drones.
-- Constant pressure to do more with less and less.
-- Support services have been decimated by layoffs.
-- No work/life balance anymore.
-- WAY too many chiefs.
-- Positions gotten based on favoritism/nepotism
-- Same people are always chosen to provide "feedback" on state of affairs.
-- Cost of tuition keeps increasing even when students can't find funding presently.

Advice to Senior Management

-- Put the management of campuses back on to each campus. Trying to manage everyone the same has killed several good campuses.
-- Stop hiring people for positions they aren't qualified for just because they will be a 'yes man' for the person above them.
-- Go back to the days where you could provide an opinion and not be crucified and/or targeted for firing for giving it.
-- Remember, there is a thing called work/life balance.... killing people with schedules will only serve to make miserable employees who in turn are less productive employees.
-- Kim, the employees believe in you and believe that your heart is in the right place. That said, the people advising you are blowing smoke up your you-know-what. They have turned your great place to work into what feels like a dungeon on most days. That, combined with the state of the economy, is why the business has dropped. People are not happy on the campuses no matter what they tell you to your face. They are afraid to speak out in front of management. Talk to them one-on-one.

Pros

Still believes in changing the world, especially at the campus level
Gives fair compensation and fair benefits (doesn't try to be the leader, but does attempt to be competitive)
Allows for negotiation in salary/vacation
Good people with lots of talent

Cons

Management does not have a firm grip on where the organization is going.
Regulatory environment is drawing focus away from what is right for the student
IT has not had strong/any management since I have been there making it difficult to know the right things to do. Limited strategy or understanding of what IT should accomplish.
IT is simply in dissarray with many, many unhappy people.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a strong technical (IT) senior leader with the backbone to do what is right for the organization. Allow that person to be the expert and listen to what they have to say.
Stop splitting focus between so many different initiatives. Find the 1 or 2 things that will fix it and focus everything on those things.
Be honest about who you are: Either get back to who say you are by putting Purpose and People before Profit OR be honest about being all about profit.

Pros

UTI Treats employees very well

Cons

Not a clear technological path

Advice to Senior Management

n/a

Pros

Reserved covered parking at no cost to the employees

Cons

In March 2011, the company relocated it's Home Office from North Phoenix (a somewhat convenient location with respect to their existing two Phoenix Campuses) to North Scottsdale (ridiculously inconvenient to their other local entities). Now, "...despite our best efforts, we’ve been unable to maintain or grow the student population commensurate with our budgeted staffing levels. ... and know that a reduction in our current staffing levels is necessary at some locations." Most specifically at the HO location.
Let the employment seeker beware!

Advice to Senior Management

"Changing business cycles require us to adapt accordingly, and we believe we have anticipated the current business realities through 2012."
Maybe you should bring in someone who can manage this business for the long term.

Pros

great instructors, and students. Need some better programs

Cons

bad managment, don't allow students or instructors to really teach an learn properly

Pros

The organization truly is looking out for the best interests of their students.
Student training is very good.
The organization has many industry relationship used to build curriculum and job placement.

Cons

Politically charged environment.
Admissions gets too involved in financial aid
Computer systems and systems training is weak
The organization does not value feedback/ideas from employees that come from outside an educational institution.

Advice to Senior Management

Value feedback/ideas from employees that come from outside an educational institution.
Get a real financial aid processing system.