The Good, The Bad, The UglyThe good things- Working with a team of amazing people who will support you throughout your performances
- Fixed schedule, avoids busy road & rush hours because you follow Australian/New Zealand Standard Time
- Offers adequate training for new hires; inductive & insightful regarding Australia/New Zealand’s construction process
- Your communicative skills will be challenged and developed shortly as you go
- Small gap between generations; youthful peers/colleagues
- Competitive salary for entry level
- Interesting promotion scheme
- They establish social responsibility and the company's slowly making footprints in society through their Fair Building Network
The challenges- Overwhelming workload; tedious & demanding work nature especially with key performance indicators such as targets and portfolio management
- Job itself never ends and you will at some point be forced to work beyond your given shift just to finish deadlines
- Not all researchers end up having the same cases; some end up getting more difficult portfolios and have difficulties managing the projects
- Management lacks empathy and immediate support for its employees regarding overall system and policies; they have slow, almost NO application of an action plan for some instances
- People come and go; at least 1 or 2 people resign every month. Most of them quit after less than year, shows how the job can be difficult especially for an entry level
- Depending on given portfolio, 70% of the time you need to perform unsolicited calls to firms/contacts which can be exhausting because most of the time you’ll end up speaking with contacts who don’t recognize the purpose of your company because it’s not well-marketed
- Cycled work; limited opportunities are offered to employees outside of work for them to enjoy – work is mechanical and exhausting despite sitting in front of computers the whole day. They have events and programs but that only happens like once a year at least.
- Work nature has the tendency to make you sick – physically AND mentally as it is stressful
- Targets are beyond employee’s control and it’s not always guaranteed
- At times, work ethics are questioned especially when people find out you’re tracking a project they do not have full consent of listing in the database
- You’re not exempted of any work when you file a sick leave; leaves are not paid until you finish your probation period
- Work-life balance is difficult to achieve