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American Institute For Foreign Study

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Great for a first job, not so great for a long term career! - Anonymous employee American Institute For Foreign Study Employee Review

3.0
May 27, 2014
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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
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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.

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