Peace Corps Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Peace Corps full-time for more than a year

Pros – Independent
Freedom for projects
Determine you own schedule

Cons – Overworked supervisors
Not much else to say besides the lack of supervision result from this

Advice to Senior Management – Train better assistants

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Peace Corps full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – travel, language, job experience, general life skills

Cons – away from home, must be a self-starter, application process is considerably lengthy.

Advice to Senior Management – Peru management is wonderful.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Peace Corps full-time for more than a year

Pros – In terms of support, Peace Corps is one of the best volunteer organizations out there. Health benefits are good and generally the staff is excellent and generally want you to succeed.

Cons – Too concerned about meeting numbers and not concerned about capacity building

Advice to Senior Management – Rethink country posts and reevaluate not just on numbers, but on the impact that volunteers are making. How many years are we going to teach basic skills like hand washing in small communities. Use the skills of volunteers better like real capacity building.... that is where PCV's make the most difference in the long run.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Peace Corps

Pros – Ability to travel and experience new culture

Cons – No Pay, sometimes administration annoying

Current Employee – been working at Peace Corps full-time for more than a year

Pros – Develop project, monitoring and evaluation skills

Cons – Two years is not enough time

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Peace Corps full-time for more than a year

Pros – Meeting people from different cultures.

Cons – Not knowing what you will be doing, but that it expected.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the concerns from PCV's in the field.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Peace Corps full-time for more than a year

Pros – The language training was very thorough, as was the cultural training.

Cons – The host country national staff was all fantastic; however, sometimes the country director and staff were not as professional. It varies so much from country to country, though, so I'm sure it's better in other places.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Peace Corps full-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent volunteer support in every aspect including health, mental, and administrative. I received the best medical care of my life.

Cons – Pay as a volunteer is abysmal and I did not receive a pay raise my entire 2 years of service, despite filling out several living allowance surveys and obvious signs of incredible cost of living increases in the country. Stipend was not enough to live on and I had to support myself with outside funding.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Peace Corps full-time for more than a year

Pros – Travel the world, learn new languages, escape for two years, and make a difference in people's lives. You're really out on your own to do what you want and work independently.

Cons – Typical developing country woes, health problems, lack of amenities, etc. but also isolation, conflicts with host community, frustration at pace of work

Advice to Senior Management – Develop a real approach to international development

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Peace Corps full-time for more than a year

Pros – Provides you good field experience if you are interested in a future career in development. You are able to experience a country, culture, language like most others in the world will never experience.

Cons – The experience can be very lonely, isolating, and hence challenging at times. The lack of amenities can mean you are exposed to extreme heat (in my case, in the desert of Africa) that can make you vulnerable to illness and health issues. Very low pay.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend