teacher

customer service representative

librarian

health educator

clinical nurse

TAFE Queensland

A typical day at work would be previewing the class notes and familiarization with lesson to be presented to students. Preparing the classroom for students, i.e. setting up overhead projector if needed, and so forth. Presenting the days lesson once students had arrived. I learned that no two people are the same and we all learn at a different rate and in different ways and I must find out how to reach students and present the lessons in a fashion that is understandable to them. The management were great and very involved in attaining positive outcomes and also allowed the teachers a lot of autonomy in the classroom. The workplace culture was one of a common desire to present the best product possible to our students. The hardest part of the job was having a student who is just not able to grasp the concepts being taught, no matter how hard we tried as a team to have a successful outcome. The most enjoyable part of the job was having students who understand a concept being taught, i.e. seeing the light come on, so to speak.

I was sent there as no other alternative from my local campus. I was made to feel like I had a huge job ahead of me to replace someone they gave a VER to. I worked very hard for a year learning as much as I could. Made a few minor mistakes I learnt from and was working pretty well with the teachers I served. My Director and co-worker unfortunately saw it differently and 3 months after starting I was performance managed. This went on for 9 months after which my director said whilst I had improved it was not enough and he wanted me out of his team. HR did nothing and I had to reply to his written reasons. My 6 page response was deemed not enough and they terminated my F/T employment from the public service after almost 30 years of dedicated unblemished service. through the entire process I was unable to tell anybody due to confidentiality rules that were never clearly explained.

My typical day was busy and productive.  I learnt a lot from this job.  This job made me a better employee and pushed me to perform at a high standard.  I learnt a lot of things from this position - customer service, computer skills, electronic filing, public speaking, dealing with complaints, conflict resolution, teaching.
The management was alright but support was minimal.
The workplace culture was always developing as workload was high and unevenly shared.
The hardest part of the job was marking a lot of assignments and meeting deadlines due to minimal support. we had to mark 50-100 assignments per cohort.
The most enjoyable part of the job was teaching and growing as a professional.

Management cut back allowances making it unfinancial to  continue teaching.
Contract to contract work depending upon Fed Govt funding each year and not guaranteed creating job uncertainty and poor moral and disrespect to staff as disposable resources .
Bullying occurring as well with pressure put on staff to complete an exorbitant amount of work.
Benefits and allowances will not up to industry standard and what was actually required when working away.
With the contracts coming up on a 12 monthly basis they would be slowly reduced in the benefits that they were be paying to staff and staff are expected to take on more work and more students to make the business more profitable with the funds being siphoned off onto other areas within TAFE.
There was significant admin work to get your teaching done which often overtook the quality of the teaching

As an education institution, I had a great belief in establishing and maintaining a cohesive, harmonious and conducive working and learning environment. This at times this was made difficult due to the lack of managerial support and budget constraints. At all times I made myself available to advise and mentor fellow staff members and assist them to advance there knowledge base and potential for advancement within the Institutions framework. The rewards it yields when fellow employees progress and strengthen the Organisations pool of knowledge, expertise and productivity is a great source of satisfaction to me.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It is a good environment to work in, with a lot of interaction with other staff members and students. Specific training and information offered and social occassions with fellow workers. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Some high up staff may have a bad attitude towards you if you do a good job and spend too much time and effort into making life hard by playing childish sinister mind games.  

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Gossiping, trouble making security guards think they are the boss.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Just do what needs to be done every day and don't get too involved, because it is all very two faced.

Staff very interested and great reputation reputation staff still contact students respect hard working put by staff .teachers library staff Leachers qut board members good reference staff students good respected staff members cleaning staff helped assistant professor department heads of campus government employee .staff felt loss of good cleaning labour and maintenance issues fix under campus policies safe standards clean safe campus grounds.Great interactive staff members grounds staff students teachers .

I enjoy working with TAFE in my current role of Delivery Support Officer and my previous role with Facilities.

I enjoy the team cohesion with work peers and educators.

I enjoy the proactive attitude the senior executive have undertaken and continue to undertake and encourage all staff to participate in    to provide the best possible vocational education training across a varied sphere of faculty for all Queenslanders, interstate and international students.

There are no processes and the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.  Most managers have been in their jobs way too long and have lost touch with real world. You have to accept mediocrity and incompetence if you want to stay there. Every so often you find someone who is switched on and they are a beacon of light in the murky darkness.

The majority of roles are contract, there are virtually no permanent jobs even if you are willing to sacrifice your standards.

Phone clients for appointments
Visit clients to conduct sign ups
Solve any training issues by collaborating with management and teachers
Perform any administrative tasks as required
The hardest part of the job is achieving the best training outcome for the client with the resources available and legal constraints
The best part of the job is achieving client satisfaction when problems are overcome

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Teacher 2 salaries reported	$82,500 per year
Customer service representative 3 salaries reported	$33.00 per hour
Librarian 1 salary reported	$88,552 per year
Health educator 2 salaries reported	$95,000 per year
Clinical nurse 1 salary reported	$125,000 per year

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