What is the hiring process like at The Salvation Army?

Staff were friendly and supportive

Working overnights, as a new hire most shifts would be overnight

Nothing to specifically highlight about the organization.

Unplanned hiring and termination Lack of empathy Uncoordinated

Paid sick days, paid holidays, and vacation, benefits

Absolutely horrible place and no management within the building with over 250 residents. Supervisors especially 4-12 shift do not care about how many people are there to help work and will leave you in the building while constantly trying to avoid any major situations that come about. They do not care about staff and will leave to people alot of time 2 females in a building with over 200 males. They are on the verge of losing their contract at the moment and mostly are hiring through a 3rd party temp agency. 3 people have left from the top and now it's really unsafe especially if you are working night shift there. They rarely report situations to BOP and the head of security there is non existent and seems to just be there for show! Do not be fooled by the good benefits this place is not worth it, been there long enough to know now.

Decent PTO policy but still just okay to industry standards.

Garbage retirement plan Horrible leadership. HR team allows long time leaders to get away with bullying and belittling new employees just because they have history. I was degraded in my role on several occasions, cursed out (yes at a "Christian" organization), and told that I do not have a voice. All of this was reported to HR and not a thing was done.

There are lots of shifts and work available

Creating a safe environment for the workers is not always a priority. They also hire people with strong Christian backgrounds over people with experience in the field, resulting in inadequate, unexperienced employees that are in over their head.

- client work is rewarding - great front line team including chef

- inflexible and unreasonable demands by senior leadership that are made without any consultation and usually as a knee jerk reaction to a minor infraction - culture of intolerance for any questioning of direction from senior leadership, regardless of the ethical considerations of their direction - no consideration from senior leadership about how their decisions impact turnover - client centred approach is at the front lines only. While espousing messages of empathy and care for the community, senior leadership will demand clients be kicked out for minor infractions regardless of their cognitive abilities, housing or knowledge of Kingston - rules are decided arbitrarily and as the supervisor, the primary expectation was that I was enforcing rules over client care - there is an executive director and an assistant executive director, there is no distinction in their roles and absolutely no daylight between the two of them. There is cult-like reverence towards the ED from the assistant ED and no tolerance for independent thought - as the supervisor (and this may have changed since I left) I was told that in staffing emergencies, I was the only one who could actually cover shifts due to the collective bargaining agreement (it does not say this in the CBA nor in my job description) - questioning a very short sighted HR decision resulted in me getting a letter on my file for disagreeing with the process