Pros
Health benefits are wonderful, and winter recess is paid time off late December to early January each year.
Cons
If you have any professional drive or refuse to take one role and stay there until you retire, then this is not the place for you. Stay two or three years, but leave before your career hits the skids. Yale likes staff members to stay in their lanes, and simply do the job they think you should be forever grateful for having. Each staff position is only responsible for one small piece of the puzzle, so you are never really a process owner, project manager, or true subject matter expert. The result is few people, if any, in my experience, are truly well rounded and learned administrators. Plenty of Directors with dual titles that are simply not up to snuff. Lots a complacent staff who’ve been there the majority of their lives. Human Resources will tell you they love grooming in-house talent for career growth, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for most. If you’re looking to switch departments or professionally pivot, Yale HR expects you to take a demotion in job grade or even salary on occasion. Why? Because you’re lucky to be there. Or so they believe. They want you to start from scratch professionally or financially if you wish to progress. It’s not terrible if you do your time and hit the road. Having Yale on your resume procures many an interview.