A great career choice for the next generation work force.
Pros
The top reasons I like working at beacon are company transparency, room to grow, and good, down to earth people in all positions. I have been with Beacon for 3 years and began as a maintenance technician. I can say with 100% confidence that I feel completely at home here. Still in my 20's, I already feel I have found a career with a reputable company were it would be my pleasure to remain until I retire. The company is very transparent with everything that is going on across the board, something unheard of in most places of employ out there. Company financials, new policies, what the upper management is working on, and other pipe line projects our discussed openly with all employees. The good, bad, and ugly, we get to hear it first hand, which I believe fosters a more mutual respect level amongst employees by position, and give us the proper information that ultimately empowers us in decision making about our own futures as an employee. They defiantly are not adding fluf to there claims that they are rapidly expanding, it's actually pretty incredible how much they have done since I have been here. Rapid expansion mixed in with there cross trainings, in house trainings, and commitment to send and pay for education, is a recipe for advancement for employees who CHOOSE to pave there own road here. Also, the superiors that I directly deal with have found a fine balance with stepping in for assistance and letting us learn how to take on new challenges for ourselves. Last but not least, the people here for the most part are pleasant and down to earth. Upper management knows your name, and remembers small details that you may talk about outside of office talk. The employees I manage are great people and all get along well, which can be linked to the great hiring practices. You do feel like your not just a number here. They are also realistic and down to earth by recognizing that a new generation of workers are now in the hunt for jobs. They have made great strides in updating the core operations of a company by utilizing the web, and are streamlining policies to keep stride with the new work force.
Cons
As stated in my pros, the company is rapidly expanding. This is a great but trying process. Recently, the regional vice presidents were approved to search for assistant RVPs....smart decision. However, I think Beacon needs to further realize the importance of adding more, strong maintenance and operational leaders. More properties means more everything, not just money to manage. They are at the point were assistant maintenance directors and senior supervisors are needed to assist in directly and smoothly transitioning new properties on a first hand and regular basis (and also to re-structure existing properties that are struggling, or dealing with a change in supervisor). Again, they have promoted senior property managers, but no senior maintenance staff. This is very much as important as managing the business end, for maintenance keeps a property working to make money. There are good property managers, but the great ones 99 percent of the time, are complimented by a great maintenance supervisor.
