Coordinator - Anonymous employee Occidental College Employee Review

Time with professors and students.

Not a lot of hours.

Oxy students are wonderful, and other departments seem great - just not the Hameetman Career Center.

As long as the current Executive Director is in place, do NOT work at Oxy's Career Center! The ED is so difficult to work for that there is constant turnover - which means that the people still there are constantly overworked and overwhelmed. I only worked there a few years, and the staff completely turned over twice. Additionally, the ED undermines her employees - she will say something is your decision, and then later question or change the decision, or even deny saying it was your decision to make. There is little appreciation for hard work or dedication. Saddest to me is that we never talked about how our work impacts students, which should be the focus of a career center; the focus was always on how the ED looked to external partners. Additionally, there is no work-life balance. All employees are required to be in-person 5 days a week -- however, the ED works remotely whenever she feels like, sometimes for weeks at a time. Needless to say this inconsistency is bad for morale and it felt like everyone on the team was always looking for other jobs. Because people are unhappy, their productivity is not what it could be - plus they are often actively looking for other work which is also a distraction from their current work.