Unexpected transitioning phase - Student Advisor Kaplan Employee Review

3.0
Jul 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The center managers were great to work with, along with the lead instructors. Business was systematic and straightforward, and student advisors were given a lot of responsibility and freedom to interact with students and teachers, which helped everyone overall in terms of communication! Lots of great campus opportunities too. The students seemed to succeed a vast majority of the time with their test prep, which was great to see, and student advisors got a free test prep class for working there (great deal).

Cons

After quitting I didn't follow up with the center activity much at all, but it seemed like the student advisors were phased out. This came as quite a shock to several of us at the time, and even to the center managers at a bit - it seemed like it wasn't communicated well and certainly not a decision made on a center-to-center basis (aka just a company-wide decision without evaluatig each centers' day-to-day procedures). Quick and hasty. Definitely some disconnect between small centers and Kaplan as a giant entity.

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