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Colonial First State

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Management overhaul - Administration Colonial First State Employee Review

1.0
29 May 2017
Recommend
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Pros

You do RG146. You can start between 730 and 9am.

Cons

Poor leadership team throughout business as there's blatant in-fighting. Poor staff retention (about 15 people left in administration in 2016 alone). Poor salary in admin (less than $60k salary package) Poor career development. Roles tend to go to persons who've worked in the role on secondment. These individuals are cherrypicked, and advertising the role at all is simply out of obligation. They do not care for the wellbeing of staff. They're chronically under-resourced.

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5.0
14 Jul 2025
Recommend
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Pros

They are sweet to us

Cons

They are hard when you dont do work

2.0
20 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good CBD location Life leave and birthday leave Decent salary and yearly bonus Mentoring and skills workshops available

Cons

Not very stable. There was a lot of restructuring and redundancies during my time there. In my department there were people who resigned without having another job lined up. It was sad to see many good people leave.

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