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The Guidance Center

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The Guidance Center reviews

3.4

46% would recommend to a friend

(93 total reviews)

Laura Huot

34% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

The Guidance Center has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 93 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Guidance Center employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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93 reviews
2.0
Nov 2, 2015

Good and Bad

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers who are friendly and helpful and work great as team to support you. There is some room for advancement.

Cons

Extremely stressful work environment resulting in high burn out. The electronic record causes staff to quit either directly or indirectly. Not only is it not user friendly, but loses money for the company by the hours spent redoing work and the negative reinforcement for staff with very negative emails from numerous sources asking for corrections that wouldn't be necessary with an appropriate system and billing department.

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The Guidance Center Response
7y
Under the current leadership team, we have implemented a new electronic health record. Staff helped us to design it and provided feedback all throughout the process. While our funders determine what documentation is required to be paid for the work we do, no different that any other government service provider, our staff have helped us to meet these requirements and build a great system that is receiving very positive feedback.
2.0
Jun 19, 2014

Wrong profession for some

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Co-workers are a team of their own, supportive of one another. Clean environment.

Cons

Leadership is not equipped with adequate social skills to lead a team of people. You would think being in the Human Services field, they would know how to interact with people, sad to say that they do not. They hold their credentials above the people that they service and work with.

1.0
Feb 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Solid insurance, decent amount of sick/personal/vacation time, short drive to work (for me)

Cons

EXTREMELY HIGH turnover rate! Which leads to a work place that is ever changing. Programs get shuffled around constantly, rules and policies change on a dime and/or are bent or broken on a regular basis. Don't let HR fool you with their comments on here about new graduates as the reason for the high turnover rate. The turnover is high because the pay is low and management and upper management have no clue what is going on. There is a reason why they are losing money left and right. Communication is seriously lacking. Since the current CEO has been in place, the center has done nothing but lose money. Also, don’t let them tell you that they research current salaries and that the pay is on par to the norm. It is not. For instance a quick Google search will tell you that my salary is literally DOUBLED across the nation from what I am paid. There is one person in HR that makes the call on salary and she is clueless. When you sign on they make you sign some agreement for your laptop and cell phone, basically stating that you will have to pay for it if it gets damaged, even in a clients home, which you may have no control over. I don't even know if that is legal!! It's really fishy if you ask me. I have never worked at a place that has done this before. The folks that do stick around, like myself, do so out of convenience. As I mentioned it’s close to home, they are very flexible and generous with time off. That is the one that is good about this place. Right now, that is enough to keep me there, but I would never recommend someone to look here for a job.

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