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I worked at the University of Wollongong for a period of 15-18 years and found both the people and the position I worked in a wonderful place to work both in experience, potential for progression, and workwise the supervisors were great.

A typical day at work would involve answering your emails, looking through your workload and prioritising, answering any incoming calls and taking messages and distributing said messages. Going to meetings and taking the minutes of the meetings, coming back and typing up the minutes, then handing them to all the relevant participants of the meetings.

I learned quite a lot over the years, I was able to attend courses for all subjects that interested me and helped me do my job better.

The Management were a very good group of people, fair, flexible, and easy to approach.

My co-workers were very easy to get along with and helpful when the time came for help needed.

The hardest part of the job was keeping everybody happy at the same time, although this could be achieved it was a hard part of the job.

The most enjoyable part of the job was to arrive in the morning and be able to help someone in dire need of help during the day. It was rewarding when they came back and thanked me for doing so later on.

Throughout my employment and volunteer history, I have been involved with young parents and children on a professional and personal capacity. On a professional capacity, I was employed with the University of Wollongong to rollout the ‘Lead my Learning Campaign’ which targeted parents with children aged 0-5 within Kempsey and Grafton Local Government Area.
The Campaign required me to have good public relation skills, negotiation and good rapport building skills to work with parents [especially young parents] to encourage them to complete surveys. These surveys were conducted with parents from schools/preschools, playgroup/s to participate in 1:1 consults regarding education pathways for their child/ren. The survey was also distributed through promotional workshops, information stalls and/or Aboriginal and Local community events etc.

- a typical work day would involve me conversing with students via telephone or face to face 

- My role was to induct new law students by providing them with the necessary information needed to start University 

- My employers managed a team of 50 employees including myself. Events such as Orientation were organised efficiently. We were each designated specific tasks such as enrolment staff, directional staff, ID staff to allow the week to run smoothly

- the most enjoyable part of the job was being able to interact with students and talk to them about our own University experiences 

- the hardest part of the job was not being able to answer some of the students questions in regards to academic advice. However this was alleviated by being able to refer to students to faculty members.

I experienced frequent covert bullying from two staff members.
I was told to ask questions then get bombarded with questions following up, which would only intimidate you.
Left out of meetings, meaning the information was retained from me so I could not do my job properly.
My workload was starting to get taken off me once the new girl came into the office.
Over the top management style one way communication
Poor mentor and no real training (unfortunately I was too nice at the time and never had the confidence to really tell the truth of how poor the training was).

Ruined my confidence and I wouldn't in my opinion, work for the Education department unless you enjoy slow procedures, backward thinking and no innovation for new ways of thinking or doing.

In hindsight this has been the worse experience in my working career - a waste of many years.

When you first join, his university will promise you the world ..but then when you deliver the outcomes promised, they deliver you ... nothing in return.

Values such as acknowledgement of hard work and outcomes, fair consideration for promotions, and non-bullying are non-existent here.

My time there gave a lot of experience and insights into what NOT to do.

At UOW, it's all a matter of who you know, and who you suck up to.  If you are not into shmoozing and sucking up,then this is NOT for you. Bullying is absolutely rife here.

A meritocracy, this is not.

Run,  run away,the sooner the better.

I possess excellent written English and presentation skills acquired by working in the field for over eight years and based on my extensive journal and conference publications, as shown on the attached resume. In addition, in 2019 I was awarded the Peter Schmidt Memorial Scholarship for the best scholastic and research performance for postgraduate students in civil engineering at UOW. Furthermore, I have kept up to date with all the engineering subject content through my involvement as a tutor at the University of Wollongong for over four subjects.

By far the worst experience in my 30+ years of work. Wish I had never started there. Completely ruined my year and my life. 

This is not just me. A number of colleagues have moved on to other universities and reported back how much better the working conditions and culture are and how management actually makes an effort.

always busy..you have to be prepare when you had the chance just to be step ahead...short staff..management try to maintain budget...a lot of staff calling sick and not available to work ...hardest part of the job is when you come in and find out your working on your own to feed 400 students....enjoyable part of the job is when I see everyone working together..

A typical day at work is helping to make and runs groups for students and organize how that will work. I learn many organisation skills and communication skills. The workplace culture is great as the UOW is multicultural. Hardest part of the job was making sure everyone was happy in the groups and the most enjoyable part is the workshops.

My role at the University of Wollongong was mostly about interacting with students and other staff members over the phone and in person. This job helped me increase my ability to deal with people from different cultural backgrounds. The work culture is fair with a lot of team work, employee engagement, responsibility and learning opportunities.

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Tutor 6 salaries reported	$70.08 per hour

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