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Selfhelp Community Services, Inc.

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Selfhelp Community Services - ONLY IF DESPERATE - Anonymous employee Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. Employee Review

1.0
23 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The only two pros to working at Selfhelp Community Services is the fact that you have income to support yourself and meeting the individuals selected for Home Health Aide training.

Cons

Unprofessional work environment. Leadership does not encourage respectable work ethics. Compensation (very low pay rate) is not in accordance with the amount of work that is done. Recruitment Department is like walking into a High School cafeteria with staff (including Management) discussing personal issues, shopping on line, and eating/conversating in the same facility as those trying to take and pass entrance assessment test. Senior Recruiter would often call applicants into her office along with other staff members to "train" on how she does things and gets away with it; manager would often humiliate applicants to the point of making them cry, her reasoning for doing this was so that she can break the applicant down and get information out of them; information which should not be asked during an interview.

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Pros

Friendly team and flexible schedule

Cons

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Pros

Benefits are okay, and coworkers are awesome.

Cons

The pay is insanely low for the amount of stress and responsibility involved. Around $50K a year comes out to roughly $3K a month, which is not realistic in New York City when even a small studio can cost around $2K. It is very difficult to survive on this salary. The work environment is also heavily micromanaged, with strict cellphone rules, break restrictions, and rigid policies that often make it hard to actually help clients. Many of the elderly clients are difficult to work with, and the burden often falls on the worker even when the issue is caused by the client forgetting information, not hearing properly, or misunderstanding instructions. There is also a constant fear of being reported to managers or the Department for the Aging over minor things, such as not smiling enough or not speaking softly enough. Some clients can be rude or inappropriate, including making racist or offensive comments or personal remarks about appearance. While there are some kind clients, they are not the norm in my experience. Overall, I would not recommend working here unless you have a very high level of patience, genuinely enjoy working with elderly people, and can tolerate low pay, strict management, and a stressful client-facing environment.

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