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      4.1

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (89 total reviews)
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      John ’’Jack’’ Burg

      70% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      4.4

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Senior management

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      American Institute For Foreign Study has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 89 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The American Institute For Foreign Study employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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      89 reviews
      2.0
      Apr 23, 2015

      Hope you like working in sales and making cold calls...

      Anonymous
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      Pros

      The division I worked for had a lot of great wonderful and caring people. Benefits are over all pretty good compared to other companies I have worked. They encourage their employees to travel.

      Cons

      There is very little vision on the part of management to bring AIFS into the future to be successful. From what I saw the management that is currently in place has been in place to long and feel that doing the same thing year after year will get them better/different results. It is strange that each department has their own system/platform and that they don't develope one platform that would work across all divisions as they esstianlly do the same thing which is place foreigners into placements here in the States other than their study abroad programs, but one platform could handle that as well. They need also need to find a better marketing strategies, having people make cold calls all day/night is not the best way to drum up business anymore.

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      American Institute For Foreign Study Response
      11y
      Thank you for sharing your feedback! We are sorry that you felt that HR didn't care as we truly do care about our co-workers and making AIFS a great place to work. We handle our exit interviews through an anonymous questback survey so that everyone can feel comfortable being as honest as possible and we can track all the responses to try to find areas for improvement. The link was included in your termination letter and is open. We invite you to take the exit survey so that your opinions will matter as we explore areas for improvement. We are also redesigning the review process for 2016 and we will include reviewing managers in the discussion. We encourage all staff to speak to HR whenever they feel uncomfortable so that we can address issues of concern and will make more of an effort to reach out to staff while they are here to try to deal with any concerns rather than allowing good employees to leaving feeling unheard. Best of luck in your new position!
      3.0
      May 27, 2014

      Great for a first job, not so great for a long term career!

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Company has a terrific CEO and this is a great job for a person right out of college. I would suggest it to any new grad interested in cultural study. Colleagues in the UK/Germany/Poland are terrific. The company is really committed to cultural study programs and takes it very seriously. There is some opportunities to travel. Great teamwork. Au Pair in America is a well run team with excellent management.

      Cons

      Moving to a professional company from this job, you start to realize that the company culture, while "fun", is really unprofessional. Very unprofessional HR department. Low pay. Camp America team is questionably run and the management there is unprofessional Little opportunity for advancement, pay grades ALL over the place.

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      American Institute For Foreign Study Response
      11y
      Thank you for leaving feedback! We hope that the positive aspects of the job outweighed any negatives that you experienced. We do strive to provide our staff with a "fun", casual environment and we realize that environment is not suited to everyone. We do not follow a "corporate" structure and that is not likely to change in the near future. Our HR Department went thru a major overhaul in late 2013/early 2014 and we aim to provide excellent customer service to all of our staff, including an open door policy. The HR staff aims to be "user friendly" for all employees. We strongly encourage any employee to talk to us whenever there is a concern so that we can address the concern immediately. We are not perfect but we are open to suggestions, criticisms, and concerns with a willingness to make changes as needed for the betterment of our department, our staff and the company.
      2.0
      Feb 21, 2024

      Will ditch you as soon as they get what they need

      Content writer
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      Pros

      - Seemingly nice people. Competent at their jobs except for when it comes to managing - Nice office - Steady, profitable business. Been around 60 years - Decent benefits - Party planning committee on point

      Cons

      - Management extremely uncommunicative. They won't tell you about the quality of your work, attendance, etc. until after they lay you off. - Bizarrely militant about being in the office. I had to commute from New York to Stamford twice a week and would inevitably be late sometimes and I was reprimanded, which was weird because whenever I went to the office I rarely had any in-person meetings. Much of the time nobody talked to me at all. Should note that half of my team lived in states too far to commute from, yet they weren't subjected to the same scrutiny. - Zero onboarding. I had to ask how the company works constantly and it felt like pulling teeth. Most of the employees have been there for over a decade and act weird when you don't know what they know. - Only want you for specific projects to be done, and will have no problem kicking you to the curb when those are done. I completed several high-profile projects for them and was told after 90 days my supposed full-time employment was just a "trial period". - Overall just weird vibes. Looking back, there were indications they never intended me to work here for more than 3 months

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      American Institute For Foreign Study Response
      1y
      Thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry to hear about your experience and appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. We take employee feedback seriously and are always working to improve communication and onboarding processes. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
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