High Turnover - Anonymous employee CollegeTracks Employee Review

Super fun work environment if you enjoy youth development work. The staff is exceptionally smart, passionate, and loves their job. The kids the programs serve are amazing talented youth and benefit from the mission of the organization. Weekly collaboration with colleagues outside of the school I was assigned to.

Using paper files and outdated tracking systems (as of 2020 so this may not apply) No real lunch break. This is more cultural and basically part of any public school culture where the staff is available at all times.

CollegeTracks' mission and work is admirable. The Access and Success staff are great resources, mentors, and advisors for students as they navigate the college search, admissions, and transition process.

Staff are not highly valued and there are not opportunities for advancement. Only candidates with master's degrees are hired, but the salary and lack of benefits do not merit the type of talent CollegeTracks seeks to add to the team. Within a one year period 7 of the 12 staff members left the organization because of poor salary, negligible benefits, lack of professional growth opportunities, and frustrations with not being able to create change within the organization. A current employee is contemplating getting on welfare because the salary paid by CollegeTracks does not allow for her to provide for her family. Employment and hiring practices are borderline illegal, one staff member that left was not paid for vacation time accrued, which is illegal. All staff members are "at will employees" and CollegeTracks has fired staff in the past with no explanation. While the job can be rewarding the organization and leadership is demanding, challenging to work for, and seems to care little about the welfare of its staff. There are other ways to make a positive impact on society other than by working for this organization.