They over work you and extremely micro manage you only to pay you a small sum; NO work-life balance. - Assistant Director Explore Horizons Employee Review

1.0
Feb 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

You get well trained in sales. But, sales is all you do and every day involves a great deal of cold calls and dealing with angry parents who are dissatisfied with service offering.

Cons

Everything. They lie and say you have such potential and all these opportunities to develop your marketing and business skills. The company is entirely focused on creating individuals who can sell a product already accessible to everyone rather than business professions. Don't waste your time on this company, you will work entirely too hard to get paid accordingly to what you're doing. The schedule is inconsistent and terrible, with absolutely zero work life balance. They "suggest" you work on weekends, and it negatively affects your development if you don't. The atmosphere feels fake. You learn to push potential and sell bottled confidence. The feedback we give is arbitrary and they teach you to sell that in a way that sounds promising. Our tools are no better than anyone else's and save yourself the time and effort as a parent, and just buy them online. This entire is selling water to a fish. They don't take into account the work you've done in your reviews, but rather where they want you to be in a year. Minimal praise for work done. I don't see this company lasting a few more years in America at this rate due to the high job turnover rate among management. They are trying to recruit exceptional treating and yet training them to be telemarketers. You will literally go to places like malls and grocery stores and try to convince people with no interest to use your service. I repeat, don't waste your time on this company.

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5.0
May 4, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This was my first job after graduating and it was a great one. The mentorship and training was top notch.

Cons

The only con was working some weekends but even that wasn’t too bad because the hours were easy.

4.0
Feb 17, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people are, far and away, the reason this organization has and will continue to find success. The head office team are some of the most genuine professionals you'll ever meet, who are dead set on giving you everything you need to succeed from your first day onward. There is a lot of professional development opportunities, and plenty of great ways to get involved beyond your day-to-day duties. Further, for an entry level post-undergraduate job, you will be given massive amounts of responsibility, allowing your successes to feel grand, but giving you personal responsibility when initiatives might not go so well. Through this, you will learn and grow into a more capable education professional.

Cons

The work-life balance is something they are aware of being a shortfall, but is still rather nonexistent. You spend 45 hours a week, if not up to 50, in the center, with irregular work schedules that often seem to exacerbate the imbalance. Day-to-day operations are a handful and often make extracurricular projects fall to the wayside, which can and often does create stressful situations where the work seems to pile endlessly.

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Explore Horizons Response
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Thank you for taking the time to submit a review for us. We appreciate your feedback, and are working hard to strike the right work-life balance for our staff. We appreciate you and wish you all the best!
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