18: Melbourne Polytechnic Employee Reviews

Very hard to move from casual to part-time or full time. prior education qualifications treated as worthless without Cert IV in training and assessment. An incredible amount of admin including enrolling and withdrawing students personally. Not much admin support.

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Amazing Culture! That's about it.

Sessional Teacher (Former Employee) - Epping VIC - 5 June 2022

Culture is amazing. Friendly people and everyone is laid back and enjoys a chat. You'd have to really try to fault the place under a casual contract. Rates are good and work is minimal. Management is abysmal though, outdated tech and reluctance to evolve with the times is certainly hurting the company. But oh well.

Pros

Best culture ever, Very good casual rates

Cons

No training or induction, management is disconnected terribly, outdated processes and procedures harm productivity

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Teacher/ Assessor (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 13 December 2020

Far too many middle management doing made up jobs, too much redundant and ridiculous paperwork for admin and teachers. It is more like a corporate institution than an educational one. Has been systematically ruined by dodgy CEOs.

Pros

The students

Cons

Ridiculous amounts of meaningless paperwork

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Don’t trust anyone at Melbourne polytechnic

Community Liaison Officer (Former Employee) - Epping VIC - 28 March 2020

Do you want to get high blood pressure? Then work at Melb Poly. I speak four languages, and I’m qualified. After five years working with them long hours/working on weekends and I was doing lots of things that’s was not in my job description and on the top of that I was bullied every single day from a few admins just because they were close friends with managers. One manager and two team leaders managing 6 or 7 admins....it was so hard to work with them.... the students couldn’t trust the admins because admins were sharing students personal information. Not professional. After five years working so hard I lost my job for no reason, and after a few days four news staff started, and One of the new team was manager’s daughter, and the rest were manages’s friends. I was shocked that the higher managers know about it and they didn’t do anything...I stayed in the hospital for two weeks because I was bullied and hurt

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Must be able to juggle competing demands

PROGRAM LEAD (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 21 January 2020

Management needed a shake-up. Funding was always an issue and my department needed specific assistance to achieve greater outcomes. Some processes were extremely slow making progress in a fast-paced environment difficult.

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Relaxed and fun workplace.

Exam Invigilator (Former Employee) - Melbourne North VIC - 8 January 2020

Relaxed and fun workplace. Located in great suburb and accessible by train and bus. Good facilities. Mainly international students. Friendly and caring staff.

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Poor management and ethos

Language teacher (Former Employee) - Preston - 17 August 2019

Since This TAFE employed a series of business CEO's and spent thousands on changing their name, it has gone downhill in its treatment of its employees. It retains permanent contract workers regardless of their teaching abilities and is not loyal to its casual teachers. Management have made a series of huge mistakes resulting in debt and has made teachers pay for their mi

Pros

Lovely and diverse students and staff

Cons

Poor management and ethos. Nepotism is rife.

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Just pass them

Lecturer & Course Coordinator (Former Employee) - Melbourne Australia - 28 December 2018

Students that have no knowledge are just supposed to be passed. Management unethical and if you don't get a good review from passing students you don't get your contract renewed, If you need academic content for your course they don't pay you to develop it even though they then want to claim intellectual property rights.

Pros

None

Cons

None

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Productivity and Fun working place

Student Mentor (Former Employee) - Preston VIC - 4 September 2018

Best working place for beginners Learnt heaps during my working days Management was very supportive to ideas Teaching here was the best experience. Many cultures was met and mingled.

Pros

Healthy environment

Cons

Nil

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Good but challenging

Education and Career Advisor (Former Employee) - Preston VIC - 30 August 2018

Melbourne Polytechnic is a challenging place to work when working as a career advisor. You must be able to answer large numbers of questions from students and potential students within a reasonable amount of time. Additionally it is important that you are able to satisfactorily resolve a query in such a way that you are confident that you have given the person all the relevant information. A standard day would encompass either waiting for inquiries to come in from potential students or it would entail calling the potential students to answer any questions they have on a personal basis. The main thing I had learned during my time there was patience. Every person is different their way of asking questions is different, their financial situation is different, their desired educational outcome is different. It is one thing to know about this however it is something entirely different when you have to deal with it. You need to be very considerate and sympathetic when dealing with a person inquiring for a course when they come from a weak financial background. Not just sounding sincere but also finding them alternate solutions if the course they are trying to enter into has a high cost. Putting in extra time to finding a solution that both parties find agreeable can be hard and even frustrating but the emotional reward when you help a person be one step closer to doing what they want is more than enough. Overall the workplace was relaxing, the team leader wasn't hounding team members for numbers and no one felt stressed or uncomfortable working there. There was no -

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little bit of toxic workers

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Preston VIC - 3 July 2018

Always toxic dont have much to say. none were friendly. they dont like Indians, always avoiding and making fun. smiling at the back they only want people who were there from the begining

Pros

very bad

Cons

selfish

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Excellent place to work

Lecturer (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 14 June 2018

Excellent working environment . Excellent feedbacks from students. Excellent culture. Good collaboration and communication among administration staff and professors. Strongly recommend this Institution.

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A Great Job - Management Do Not Listen - Bullying Allowance

Storeperson (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 22 February 2018

Senior management were not very professional in the way the dealt with internal issues e.g. Bullying. They wouldn't listen to many ideas - whilst I was there - given by myself (who was only tempory) and full-time employees. The teachers (in general) were very professional and enthusiatic in the way they dealt with trainees and other clients. Work colleagues were fantastic given the very low moral within the department - Don't Worry Be Happy...

Pros

Great Work Mates - Close To Home

Cons

Bullying Allowance - Incompetent (In House) Management

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Yeah

Worker (Current Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 23 January 2018

Friendly coworkers, nice location. Lots of students of all ages around campus. Constructions currently being undertaken next door for a new high school.

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Full of Bullies

Instructor Tourism Hospoitality Events (Former Employee) - Preston VIC - 21 December 2017

Toxic management and toxic culture and no respect from management. Treated teachers as a problem rather than as the primary deliverers of the organisation's services. Stayed for the students and the salary only. Glad I am no longer there.

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ICT services - Technical Support (Former Employee) - Preston Campus - 27 July 2017

One of the best places to work, friendly coworkers , always willing to help. I had to travel around various campus of the institution, where I manage to meet new people and interact with different cultures.

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Fun workplace

Coffee worker (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 9 July 2017

A typical day at work: 7 am to 3 or 4 pm. Workplace culture: Communicate with the vitality of college students. I learned about standard operating procedure food & beverage task

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Poor culture, teachers treated as a necessary evil rather than as the front line people delivering the primary customer service

Tourism, Hospitality and Events Teacher (Former Employee) - Preston VIC - 17 December 2016

It's a lousy place to work with management now in thrall to spread sheets and business analysts with little focus on how to really engage students and support teachers