University of Alberta Reviews in Edmonton, AB Area

Pros

Flexible hours - great colleagues

Cons

International Student fees are a lot higher

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communication across Faculties (regarding events, workshops, seminars, talks)

Pros

University's do great and good things you can proudly participate in. You can contribute to making the world better.

Cons

Senior management is not very competent. uAlberta needs to be more humble and efficient. People management could be improved.

Advice to Senior Management

Administer the organization using 21st century tools and thinking. Let academics be academics, but don't let them make uAlberta inefficient.

Pros

1. Get a degree
2. Get work permit in Canada if you are not citizen and PR
3. Learn knowledge and know some friends

Cons

1. Very low salary
2. Long work time
3. Unfair for students in different deparments

Advice to Senior Management

Please improve the salary for research assistant. Please give the fair treatment including salary, vacation for all graduate students. This is pretty important for all the students.

Pros

Good weather, nice location, lots of resources for students and staff. The other students and postdocs are really great to work with.

Cons

Being a postdoc is terrible everywhere, but they really are treated as non-entities with almost no rights or status at the U of A.

Advice to Senior Management

Find some way to get postdocs higher status and better benefits. They really are a good resource for lab management and research advancement if they are employed correctly.

Pros

It gives you experience in the workplace and you learn how to do certain things such as how to properly stock shelves and it helps you get used to handling money and counting.

Cons

There are not many downsides in university of Alberta hospital. The only downside is when people look upset, are crying or are sick.

Advice to Senior Management

I feel that you are doing a great job with management and dealing with situations, everything is working out very well since I began my work there

Pros

every body is super nice and willing to help you with your own problem

Cons

too slopy, need more efficiency and hard core work circumstance.

Advice to Senior Management

It's great, need some more efficiency

Pros

Wonderful campus with lots of activity, lots of staff appreciation activities and plenty of opportunities for advancement. Lots of learning and growth opportunities.

Cons

Some snideness from "higher ups", when they feel you are not at a "higher level of learning" such as themselves.

Advice to Senior Management

Be sure you are treating all of your administrative assistants with respect and the opportunity to grow professionally and personally.

Pros

- Large university and well funded.
- New facilities being built.
- Fair compensation and benefits.
- Good coworkers.

Cons

- Lack of transparency in decision making of upper management.
- Lot of politics and seemingly pointless 'initiatives'.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on ways to improve the university rather than making changes just for the sake of changing.

Pros

Recession proof job. Good benefits

Cons

Less money, not much growth, little red tape

Advice to Senior Management

Please do not hire costly professors, also concentrate on the processes as well. No accountability for professors.

Pros

good large university, well funded.

Cons

Poor salary of scientists in general

Advice to Senior Management

Train less PhD's, professionalize the research field, increase pay to attract NA researchers