Vantaggi
Good Salary and supper annuation.
Svantaggi
From day one it was quite bad, I had a colleague who was meant to train me act highly unprofessional towards another manager who had asked one too many times about fixing the org chart which I felt was not a big deal. She made a sexist comment about him leaving me shocked in the first hours working there. I then did the diversity training that informed me to "see something, say something, do something" I needed her to help train me up so there was no way I'd report her to HR on day one. It was so lewd and highly unprofessional. I then went on to meet a manager who I was reporting to. I said to him I was excited to work with him and was looking forward to learning and possibly getting some mentorship from him. He replied "That's a lot of pressure, you don't even know me" I was really taken aback and embarrassed. It went on for months that the EA who was meant to train me had to go on leave for urgent family matters. So the managers left me on my own, rarely checking in and I was left to learn all the administrative tasks which I did very well at. I was able to organize offsites, book travel, organize minutes, and schedule meetings, reconcile credit cards all the main tasks of an EA. I was pulled aside in 2 months give a bit of a warning I wasn't performing to their standards. I asked could you please give me a framework of your expectations and what you need it this role. They told me they didn't have anything to tell me but it was an "opportunity" for me to make it what it is. My colleagues were awkward and in their own bubbles, in my 4 months of working there not one of them offered me to come along to lunch or coffee or anything. So I did feel because I am not in finance and just an admin staff, I wasn't included. The team was uneasy with restructuring and it was overall a truly horrible work experience for me, I've been in so many well-known companies in my career and I have never felt so out of place and horrified. When it came to four months the manager of the department informed me I was not going to make probhation, and that I was not hired to just do admin tasks. I was so confused because no one bothered to show or ask anything else of me, I was meant to take initiative. Which normally I would be ok with doing, but the environment and the lack of communication made me feel very uneasy so I didn't know where to turn to. I basically had to wait around for another Team assistant to be free to show me what to do and sometimes that was half a day later. I called the HR recruiter who offered me the opportunity on LinkedIn, and told her what was happening. She told me she was really confused as to what else they needed me to do. I spoke to another manager in the team and he told me that all the tasks he required of me was done well to his expectation, and there wasn't a whole lot more that was expected from the other TA's. I was then let go of the job, and I felt so depleted I didn't even feel the need to argue with the manager on my exit interview, I knew I hate the place so much I wanted to leave asap. Upon my exit from the building I was chased by the manager to hand me back the pass before I could reach security to hand it back there as everyone one normally does when they leave. He acted as if I'd be back to steal sensitive data or something. Which was upsetting and so rude. I was distraught and confied in another TA who informed me, when she met me as the new TA for equities she could already tell it wasn't going to be easy for me. As my team had a bit of reputation for poor culture the the first colleague who was meant to train me was nutorious for holding back tasks because she wanted ownership of the tasks and wasn't open to training other fully, another TA who was in equities previously told her that. All in all, I wish I had never worked there. I have a friend that works in that same building complex for another company and I still feel chills walking past the building and when I see people I know from there I feel triggered. I previously worked in a very dynamic leadership team for another leading health insurance company, so it was so suprising to me that the Townhalls for AusSuper was so very dry and lacked any inspiration. My manager addressed the greater team, and he stook there speaking soft and meekly about data, results and projections. There was no energy, vigor, or motivation displayed from his presentation. It lacked so much enthusiasm and leadership. In my experience these townhalls are an opportunity for management to give the greater team a sense of drive, with a positive outlook to the future. It was nothing like that it felt flat, and everyone was uncomfortably silent. It was overall a stifling experience, ppl were glued to their computers and it was generally not ok to talk to each other or have lively conversations, just heads down and do your job.