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Based in the South Brisbane office my role specifically covered  Corporate reception duties, Customer Service and Administration support for approx 700 staff members, management and more importantly first impression to our client base.

A typical day consisted of greeting external clients for respective client management meetings ranging from 2 guests to over 50. I have been described as friendly cheerful kind hearted person who  enjoyed the meet and greet aspect of the role.

Answering large volume of phone calls the ability to express and speak clearly enabled me to assist varying requests from clients, staff and management, this entailed use of the company database and websites.

A fairly autonomous role with assistance of a co-worker who I trained enabled our section to run smoothly. The hardest part of the role would be intermittent support and communication from management due to the merger of the two companies SKM and Jacobs Group.

Although I was retrenched due to project and staff reduction. I have learnt that the position of Corporate Receptionist is not a static one, my willingness to learn and progress, confirms my self admiration and I look forward to new challenges with the chance to diversify within the administration field

After originally working for SKM (which was bought out by Jacobs), there was a distinct change in culture which was a total shock to the system.

Reading some of the other reviews here i can't believe i was working for the same company.  I can only think that It must have been the section i was working in.

They make out they're a caring and sharing Co.  Obviously not my manager who treated me, as well as others, like dirt and made no effort to hide it.  There was definitely an in crowd and an out crowd.

Training was non existent  due to "budget constraints".

In my section there was a continual atmosphere of fear and resentment of the senior management.  Unfortunately middle management were made to tow the line and were singing the senior managements mantras.  By fear i mean that no one would speak up as they were afraid of the repercussions and from experience those that did we then forced out by putting them in untenable positions.  Also from what i experienced HR was there for the employer not the employee. 

The money was good but it was increased due to circumstances such as buy out, removal of bonuses, mobile phone allowance.  I took a significant cut by leaving but it was definitely worth it.

I suffered it for 2 years and had to leave for my own sanity.

As a Grad. their is great oppurtunities to Travel.
Upper Management have a culture of withholding work from individuals and supplying that work to favourite work colleagues. This then leads to downtime overhead timesheet charging. Which then leads to being sacked. Because the client managers are not doing their job in finding you the work and concerned more about their own billable time to projects. The worst part of that is they do not give you any warning that you are a marked employee.
It is a very stressful environment to work in. I am specifically talking about the Transport/Rail Group. Also they dont have experienced Managers to win the Big Projects. I would never recommend 
This company to work for. Plus on a final note, they expect all employees from grads. to Long term employees to go out and find new work. 
Otherwise you are a marked employee.

Sydney Water West Ryde Pumping Station Renewal Project – Managing the $15m Design and Construct contract, multi-discipline design team, procurement, site construction management, contract and client management. Due to asbestos being discovered on-site late August, the site work ceased and the site demobilised. My 6 month contract was not renewed in October as the major decontamination works resulted in no site works until well into 2006.

Made to feel comfortable minute I started.

Friendly and easy going management, keen to encourage and motivate.

Enjoyed working as part of a team in the Traffic Management Centre.

Typical day included: monitoring traffic during rush hour, managing repair and maintenance schedule for traffic lights, responding to accidents and road closures on the network - liaising with police, notifying the media, updating Kent Highways Website and Twitter feeds.

Management need to give more support the the project managers Workplace culture has suffered in recent years and currently there is no motivation in the Engineering and Drafting Personnel to achieve and surpass previous stds and working to achieve, When deadlines are presented the Culture should be to achieve and bring in the project early, There is no support mechanism and a high turnover of staff personnel from burnout,

Busy and an engaging place to work. Plenty of scope to try new roles and the company that has a great culture of caring

I like leading a team of 4 and being part of the Asia Pacific finance team. 

The hardest part is keeping up to date with the changing landscape of the engineering sector

Duties include to provide all staff kitchens with daily stock, order stock and check that Kitchens are cleaned & maintained on a daily basis and All meetings booked via Catering Booking are serviced ,Meeting rooms set up with equipment and catering and room cleaned at the end of each meeting and Assisting Events Manager to place stock orders

An extremely nice place to work.
The company values continual improvement and invests in training of staff.
A beautiful friendly work culture and support from colleges.
Very pressured work environment at times.

Typical day at work started at 6am until 5pm. 
I had done it all before 
Senior Management lacking 
Workplace and culture excellent 
Being there at 6am 6 mornings a week after travelling for more than an hour 
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