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Experience Works is a nonprofit whose focus is to get age 55+ back into the workforce - Administrative Support Experience Works Employee Review

2.0
Feb 27, 2017
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Pros

You can if you are savvy convince your overworked supervisor at Experience Works to approach an other nonprofit not on its list of which you know your skills will be recognized and learn additional skills. Sometimes you can get hired at the place you have sought as a host agency (place of work).

Cons

Many times you are placed in a receptionist or janitorial position with no means of advancement. Very humiliating for those truly wanting to get back into the workforce and have worked at higher levels with degrees. In addition, you are paid minimum wage - which is fair if you were given opportunities at host agencies to further your skillsets but this doesn't happen very often. Look for a 20 hour work week at best.

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5.0
Oct 21, 2020
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Pros

Helping people find employment at an advanced age

Cons

government funded, not much room for advancement

1.0
Apr 26, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The SCSEP was created to help older workers to develop Job skills. Older workers love the program for the most part.

Cons

Upper Management is not transparent. They will hire new people making upwards of 100k while simultaneously laying off and furlough seasoned staff. DOL need to cut all of the benefits to Experience Works to give the money to a real program with proven results like AARP. The era of 2014 and 2015 was the only time EW was performing 6 of 6 performance measures while being ran by the 'corrupt leadership' The new CEO and Chairman of the board came into EW last July with OIG and members of DOL thinking it was a large scale embezzlement operation going on within the realms of upper management when in fact it was just a lot of misguided over spending on the participant portion of the program. That in turn made the finance department have to work long hard hours while being unappreciated and yelled at. Because of the actions of the new CEO and chairman of the board EW budget was slashed dramatically as it should have been since they clearly can not run a high performing organization. Do not work for this organization if you want a long standing, quality position.

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