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Portland Community College

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Completely worth it if you can stand the office politics - Anonymous employee Portland Community College Employee Review

3.0
Feb 1, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working in any of the student groups gives you a ton of exposure and connection with professors and campus resources. You'll learn a lot about collaboration, event planning, and the basic responsibilities of your job that you'll do anyways give you good building blocks for your own individual projects. It's a good way to learn some applicable real world skills and looks great on applications for four year universities or job apps if that's what you're aiming for.

Cons

This was an environment that had a lot of politics involved. Since the student teams are small, it can be hard to make sure that responsiblilites are divided equally, and sometimes there can a lot of favoritism on the part of the supervisors. This isn't necessarily a con, but if you do decide to interview for a higher up student supervisory position, be prepared to face a solo interview where you'll be facing up to 10 people, so do your homework.

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The people. PCC hires many wonderful, talented, well-meaning people who really care about their community. Other pros include, flexibility like being able to choose your own schedule, and trust in hired employees to do their work on their terms.

Cons

Major con is how messy the entire college seems to be. Massive lack in any semblance of effective communication. Nobody seems to know whats going on and everyone is almost always on a different page. Company structure is always changing and people are never notified in an organized or timely manner. Everyone seems spread too thin regardless of what position they are in and nobody seems to have the time to get on the same page. Layoffs seem to be commonly caused by lack of planning and communication. Onboarding was practically nonexistent and as a new employee i basically had to figure out everything on my own without any guidance.

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