Aureus Group Reviews

-during my employment here: i have around 40-50students who can play the instrument very well but the bosses keep on saying that I am UNDER PERFORMANCE. -every month you are reminded that you are under performance because you dont have 60 students or more than 32 hours of teaching -As a music teacher, your company performance is based on the number of your students and not on the quality of teaching. -If you have 50 students, your salary is the same to a teacher who has less than 30 students. -bosses require you to have a meeting with them and to make reports of how many students you have when they actually have their own record. Redundancy at it's finest -if they see interested parents who have 1.5-2.5 years old, they will push teachers to accommodate them just to make them enroll. Imagine a baby who will just cry,sleep or eats the music instrument during lessons. -you don't have time to arrange music or pieces for your student because on your free time the boss wants you to be at the front desk talking to passerby if they want to try music lessons in the school. (Like a salesman job) -the CEO is petty that he calls you on your own personal phone to check as to why you are in sick leave -teachers are given a quota on the number of students they should have. The problem is how to get more students when there are few people interested to have music lessons and to be paying those expensive fees. -they boast their IT system when it is always down. Student schedules are usually missing. Parents keep on complaining -they keep on saying Singapore's leading music school, when no student from this school actually entered a renowned music competition -there are no permanent staff or administrators to help the music teachers as they always resign. -managers and directors don't have basic manners. They don't respect parents who decided not to have online lessons during pandemic restrictions. Managers are harassing the parents with phone calls and sending them emails like "you will try the online lesson as discussed with the teacher" when nothing has been actually discussed. -you are required to attend meetings or training on your day off (day off is only 1 day when you're a teacher) it may not even be compensated -you get 14 days of annual leave and only 6 holidays. You have to make up for this leaves. -if you need to undergo surgery or emergency for a month, no medical paid leave -they hire you as a music teacher but you are required to do phone calls inviting parents to enroll, submit weekly reports about the adventure book, submit weekly reports about the number of your students and have regular meetings with the boss on how to have more students, submit to one person how many students who will play for recital and submit to another person (who you don't know his/her involvement with your lessons) another report how many students will play for a recital -they want teachers to have regular recitals all at the same quarter when there's no venue to use. Take note for every recital, you need to cancel the lessons for that day and have to make up for it. -make up lessons pile up like crazy. -they require you to have a recital on a particular month even your students are not yet ready -if you are a guitar teacher you will be required to teach drums, teach piano, teach voice or teach violin. You just have to learn this while on the job. I remember a teacher who asked what books to use for teaching. They hire teachers as long as they can play one song on an instrument, it's so humiliating for those who actually finished a music degree. -they will threaten you about being retrenched (just because you dont have more than 32 hours of teaching). You may be retrenched at any moment even if you have a valid pass. They will just make up their own reason as to why. They don't care about your rental contract whatsoever. -they keep on reporting few students and how many more they need but they keep on opening new branches. They dont even have a lot of employees to be working in the new branches -it's so demoralizing to be working on this company. It's a big risky move to apply here.No matter what you do even if you hit the quota you will always be under performance. As a music teacher, you will be promoted as an admin or manager when those positions are not even correlated. All that matters to them are reported numbers on how many students are enrolled, how many are using their koko adventure book/app and how many recitals you've done. They don't care about your well-being or your family.

Despite the shinny new branches they open every year, this company is rotten inside. Money driven, toxic micromanaging culture. Pressuring teachers with nonsensical tasks. Even to the point where every teacher has a KPI for getting good online review from students (eg. Facebook, Google etc). Besides, there are many many cases where they threaten and abuse teachers just to squeeze every last drop of profit they can get from them. MOST of the 5 stars glassdoor reviews here are fake. Either done by HR themselves or forcing new employee to leave a good review during their first or second week of work. If you are here to read review that reflects the truth, filter it and read from the lowest rating. Do yourself a favor, take those 5 stars review with a grain of salt.