if you are a young person trying to advance in your career - RUN - Global Programs Americares Employee Review

2.0
Aug 30, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- flexible remote work, good job if you have kids or take care of an elderly relative - easy non-demanding work, little expectations for you to deliver anything so you have most of the day to yourself - easy paycheck with good pay so if you just need a job while you look for something interesting this is a good place - Will be an easy job to get if you come from private sector

Cons

- minimal intellectual or cognitively challenging substantive work - the people are all mentally checked out not adding value and just there for a steady paycheck, alot of elderly staff resistant to change/stuck in their ways, a lot of staff are desperately clinging to their jobs and are scared they will be figured out for being irrelevant so will be hostile if they feel you are trying to make programs more efficient/effective - total career deathsprial for young people who stay here more than 2 years. expect no ability to learn more or earn more - you will be trapped and surrounded by geriatrics - expect to be frustrated if you actually want to be hands on and help people/ do meaningful NGO work - DEI program run by HR is a virtue signaling project to show that they hire people of all colors and sexual orientations while hiding that they actually want zero diversity of opinion - if you are committed to the NGO humanitarian space, prepare for few and far between opportunities to travel to do field work

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Americares Response
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As an organization that is deeply committed to both inclusive workplaces and feedback culture, we know that both are possible at all times. It is disappointing and not aligned with our organizational values, feedback culture, and Glassdoor guidelines about stereotypes and slurs to have feedback that diminishes its own credibility by making ageist and age-based grouping stereotypes, as well as comments that imply our incredibly talented staff members of all backgrounds and identities are hired for anything other than their talent. We have competency-based hiring practices and our transparent job hiring processes can be found on our website. We value staff voice and create many systems to have anonymous, informal, and formal feedback channels within the organization. We also value standards for how feedback is shared and apologize to the general Glassdoor community and our Americares employees that the language used by this feedback sharer is somehow connected to our organization as we value all ages and identities in our organization and value our highly competent workforce.

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