Pros
Great money! Decent benefits. Great job if you can drink the kool-aid. It is a must, if you can the admissions side is fun and I was great at it and loved the thrill. It is an extremely tough job but that is why the pay is so high and so should your performance be. The Advisor *Learner Services side, I can't think of any pros.
Cons
The company, on the Learner Services Division could use a whole wipe out of their managers, most of them anyway. with the exception of Scott and Cat. This was just my personal experience. UMA is actually a fantastic place to work, and if offered the opportunity, under the right circumstances, I might would go back. It is a game of politics not loyalty or performance on the Learner Services side. After 3 years of being one of their top performers I was pushed out because changing positions was going to put my boss in a bad spot if ANOTHER employee left her team. (she was new and had already lost 5 employees in the 8 months I was in that position. They either transferred or quit because of her lack of leadership) I was transferring to another position, which had already been approved, but was not available yet. Literally, a day after that job did become available, she found a reason to write me up (I had never been written up at any job or any position with UMA before so this was odd that after years here, I am now having issues, it just didnt make sense) * note that what I got written up for was something that every single employee at UMA does but I was the only person to get written up* when you are on a write up, you cannot switch positions. Once that write up was about to expire they found another reason to write me up.. another ridiculous reason, keeping me from transferring over. After I realized what was going on and confirmed they did the same thing to a girl that quit right before me, over this same exact reason, I went to HR. Told them that I thought I was being prevented from moving off the team and into my new position. (Funny thing is, this new position was allowing me to work remotely so I could travel and volunteer abroad, teaching English as a foreign language. I was planning to take UMA global with me and make the world better, while documenting it as an employee of UMA and a 4.0 graduate, and what UMA could do for people in need through education! Boy did they mess up! I also owned a marketing company so this was going to be a big deal, blogs and documentaries.. too bad they can't see beyond their bubble and see what their loyal employees are made of. Needless to say, they lost BIG in the advertising world when they terminated me.) After going to HR about my belief, things just got worse. They even wrote me up for my dogs fundraiser, even though every employee with kids slaps those fundraiser magazines at you every holiday.. but I guess again, I am the only one held to those standards. At the end of the day, they actually finally terminated me for doing the exact same job I did for the last 8 months in that position. My set up was so good that they had me teach other advisors and teams my process. Then she recreated my schedule that I gave my students and basically stole it and rolled it out as herr own, and then fired me over it. Saying that is not how they wanted me to do it. Gee, I wonder why I got all 100's on my calls, scored by the manager that fired me.,. So, if there was a problem, it should have been brought up in the 8 months I was in that position. They praised me for it, until that last day. If I had never applied for that other position, I would still have my job. That being said. if it wasn't for this mishap, I would still be a happy successful employee at UMA. I would go back and work there under the right circumstances, but I would be more aware of who I trust. Every job has its moments, this was theirs. We both lost out here.
