EF Education First Reviews

Pros

- Mission is more important now than ever before. As we read about Brexit, wall building, etc., EF is a company that helps people build bridges across borders through education. Everything we do helps our customers create new opportunities for themselves through education.
- EF has sent me abroad nearly 30 times in my 4+ years w/the company. And you're not just going to sit in a conference room in some random office or cookie cutter hotel, you're traveling with students and teachers, seeing the sights.
- Amazing benefits and coolest office space in Boston. 4 weeks vacation after 1 year, great health/dental, language classes, restaurant/bar on the banks of the Charles River
- The people! Phenomenal colleagues.

Advice to Management

- Keep it up!

Pros

Very good working environment and kindly team members. Very focus on employees grows up with the company.

Pros

I worked with some of the best people in the world and got to travel to some of the best places in the world. The events that are put on are incredibly fun. The benefits are incredible and i've not seen the same kind of health insurance or vacation time offered anywhere else. These two features are worth quite a bit of money, but it's hard for young 20 somethings to see this or appreciate it. This was my favorite job in my career so far. I would recommend it to people who are right out of college or early 20's who are driven, hardworking and goal oriented and love to travel.

Advice to Management

Denver needs more opportunity besides sales positions. Just because more products are being offered doesn't mean there is opportunity to advance --just opportunity to do the same sales job in a different product.

Pros

Many opportunities for advancement, a competitive salary, and a smooth transition to a foreign workplace.

Pros

I loved working for EF. The management is encouraging and pushes you to challenge yourself to find what you love. They support you when you need it and are hands off when possible. Teaching is a big part of what they do and you will learn a ton while you're there. The staff are amazing and it seems that everyone who works there is a funloving motivated individual who is excited to come to work every day.

Advice to Management

It would be great to give a clearer path for progression and career development, but honestly, you've built something great and I wouldn't really change my experience with EF much at all.

Pros

Beautiful campus, lovely international environment.

Advice to Management

Make students a priority. Hire a professional HR employee that will hire and fire employees based on professional reasons.

Pros

The health benefits that were offered were very good. You work with a lot of great people. They offer some training for the TSS staff but not nearly as much as the sales department. There is a trip involved to help you better understand the tours you are selling. Lots of vacation time and they are closed on the weekends.

Pros

Very interesting work with students from all over the world! There is a standard weekly curriculum but one can also augment the weekly topics using their own
related exercises. (and integrate art, music, games, etc. related to the topic).

Advice to Management

Diversify the marketing a bit by country year by year if some countries will no longer be sending their students. (And value your summer teachers as well as those who work all year long...).

Pros

great collaborative staff. A lot of available help from management. Lessons prepared for you or you could do your own lesson as long as you hit the key points of the original lesson.

Pros

Easy Schedule and fulfilling work