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Summer Assistant - GW Summer Conference and Housing - Summer Assistant George Washington University Employee Review

4.0
Nov 18, 2014
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Pros

As a student, working as a Summer Assistant for the GW Summer Conference and Housing office was a wonderful opportunity and fit perfectly into my schedule. As an assistant to summer residents in the college dorms, it was our job as point of contact and to conduct office assistance to make sure GW provided the "best of basic."

Cons

It appears that GW is incredibly decentralized. In other words, the GW Summer and Conference Housing was a single office within a larger office of GW Housing that was in turn just a single office within GW student life. Policies and practices that apply for one office do not necessarily apply to the other, and the chain of command is often cross-disciplinary.

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1) Tuition Remission is nice and adds a lot to the implicit salary. 2) Work-life balance is typically fairly good. Rarely are you pushing more than 45 hours a week. 3) Depending on your supervisor, you may get decent managering responsibilities quickly.

Cons

1) The pay at GW is significantly below market, especially for quantitative researchers. They try to make up for it with tuition remission but at some point, it isn't worth it. 2) The only way to push one's salary up is to switch jobs within GWU. The annual raise is 2.5%. Managers are able to petition HR to raise it higher but I have never heard of anyone receiving more than 5% and promotions are very rare, even among good managers. 3) Not great for quantitative researchers -- managers are typically more qualitative and thus aren't great at supervision. 4) HR and administration is super slow and often times gets in the way of an efficient office.

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