Mixed feelings - Student Advisor Daquiprafora Employee Review

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No cons perceived at all

The good things about working at Daquiprafora are working with students with big dreams to study in the US and helping these students achieve their dreams. It is also good to work with a good team. Management does a good job in selling the company to potential employees, and recruiting good people.

Lack of respect towards people: let’s not even start with unpaid overtime and unpaid worked weekends. Or not even the good sense of telling someone “since you worked so many extra hours, take a day off.” Also, the company is disrespectful towards its customers. We worked with young students that wanted to do college abroad. Whenever we had a new female student join our program, a bunch of the male advisors would be checking the girl’s profile on Facebook, saying how hot she is and making other very inappropriate comments. The worse thing to me was that it was not a behavior that was looked down by the company, but one that was encouraged by one of the company’s shareholder! With a top management like this, how can this company be even considered a good place to work? Unrealistic work demands: The job of the company is providing very expensive college counseling services to students and athletes. One would think that to keep the service premium, there would be very customized advising, but it is no more than a lot of advisors working as if in an assembly line. The company does not work with a cap of how many students they can serve a year, but they have a cap on how many people will be employed. This all leads to a really high ratio of student to staff. Each advisor works with somewhere between 50 to 100 (or sometimes twice as much) students a year. No matter how good the advisor is, there will be mistakes. It is very unmotivating for staff to see that they are trying to do a good job, but that the number of students just grows and grows and you start thinking that it is your fault that you’re not producing quality work. And when you make mistakes, there is fingerpointing and some other ridiculous behavior to make sure that you “learn your lesson.” If you are a talent, do not waste your time here: Salaries are ridiculously low. They claim to be a place where you will enjoy work and grow, that it is a fun environment with lots of young people, so you imagine that there is a perk for giving up an average for a low salary. But, really, no perks. Unless going to another city and working a weekend without compensation is a perk for you. Managers are extremely narrow-minded, profit-driven and selfish, but they are good at selling dreams and opportunities. But you will end up doing clerical work, with no possibility of having your opinions heard, and, when you leave, they will say that you were never a good fit. There is nothing that balances out the amount of work, low salaries and ineffective managers.