Santa Monica Study Abroad Teaching & Training Department Reviews

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Office infrastructure.

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Company only focuses on their benefits.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Salary payment and infrastructure

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Low work - life balance opportunity

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The working environment is absolutely stunning and enjoyable

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Long shift

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Good atmosphere for work

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Not much

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

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Comfortable working ambiance

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None

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In fact, nothing. The firm is the best example of horrific work culture, exploitation to the maximum, ridiculous policies, where superiors use all kinds of filthy and derogatory and obscene language and cheat students with flatter and asking them to renew the course for extra money without the slightest scruples of conscience

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They never stuck to the Employee Agreement form which prevents them from laying off an employee before completion of one year from starting employment with them. They never provided me a copy of it even after repeated requests, indicating lack of transparency and confidence and non-adherence to ethics. My superior was not even a proper IELTS Trainer. My colleagues were not even aware of standard Cambridge materials to be used in IELTS pedagogy and were incompetent on most topics.My superior constantly used filthy language while conversing with colleagues who were not co-operative at all and indulged in passing the buck on all occasions of complaints often raised by students. I was even asked to conduct evening batches with no extra remuneration and o support from colleagues. What is more, I was often taken to task by officials who did not even seem to know what it meant by creating rapport with students. There were too many restrictions which hindered freedom to teach innovatively. All mock tests were just a formality. My superior used to constantly brag about his own excellence and belittle his subordinates and also tried to conspire against his boss with assistance from his subordianetes by exploiting them All in all, a wretched firm to be employed in where sadly one-upmanship is the work culture and not student-centricity and student welfare. They laid me off during the first phase of lockdown and to make things appear formal, professional and rosy, asked me to write a letter of resignation in order to provide the experience letter...Read More

Work Details

Used to conduct sessions for all 4 skills of IELTS Training for both General Training and Academic. I was also involved in evaluation of test papers for mock tests

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Interference free work environment

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HR policies

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Very comfortable,secure place where we can enhance our qualities.

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Unfortunately nothing

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.