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What is the best part of working at the company?
Depending on the institution, my role s financial aid and awards clerk involved a variety of tasks, from processing financial aid applications to advising students on funding options. This variety can keep the job interesting and engaging. Also, working at Financial aid and awards office at Sheridan provided opportunities for personal growth and skill development. I learned about financial aid policies, customer service, and other valuable skills that can benefit your career.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Financial aid offices often receive a high volume of inquiries from students and their families. Managing and responding to these inquiries in a timely and accurate manner can be stressful, especially during peak times like application deadlines.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The primary focus of the office is usually on serving students and their families. This student-centered approach is often reflected in the culture, with an emphasis on providing excellent customer service and support. There were opportunities for personal development as it provides training, workshops, and conferences to help staff stay current in their field.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
 Workloads in financial aid and awards offices often vary seasonally, with peak periods during application and awarding cycles.

The SI Leadership was a pilot project that I had been chosen for as a leader within because I had shown considerable levels of skill in the program and earning high marks while maintaining a high level of sociability.

I was tasked with integrating myself into a class as a peer that had already completed a course in the past that had a higher rate of failure across the student body. I learnt how to be a leader and manage multiple minds at the same time who were working towards a common goal.

I would become a friend that they could come to for help, and would effectively teach a class or act as a tutor to the students that would be falling behind for whatever reason -- a secondary teacher essentially.

The hardest part was showing the students that they could succeed at it if they tried, despite the staggering amount of dropouts that the course had in the past. The most enjoyable part was being able to get through to the students and helping them along, real friendships were forged as a result.

It was mainly an independent environment, the meetings between those involved with the pilot project would be periodic and we'd go over the progress and whether or not the SI Leadership was worth investing further into.

I planned marketplace every month with my team mates. My job is to email the Peers from other departments and Students regarding the Marketplaces. Marketplaces are really fun and a way to promote services and interact with different people. I developed Leadership qualities, effective communications and creativity while working at all the Marketplaces. I and my colleagues manage all the things well so that we could interact will most of the students on-campus. My co-workers are supportive and helpful. They too live working on-campus and assisting new students at College. The hardest part of my job is to brain-storm and keep thinking in the creative way, and then implement the best ideas. The thing I enjoy the most comes from the hardest part of my job. It is I love implementing the ideas that I planned during the difficult part of my job. I really love my job and its fun and interesting.

I have had contracts at 8 colleges/universities around the GTA. Sheridan is the worst of them all to work for. The assistant deans are on power trips, they try to set up faculty for failure on purpose - they “cleaned house” and let go of experienced staff 8-10yrs working there - because they didn’t like people who knew what they were doing....with no notice they decide to not renew contracts to employees who have spent years there. They believe students over staff and undermine and question faculty. There is zero support and it is the most stressful and toxic work environment I’ve ever been too. There is no recourse for contract staff and no complaints process they all cover for each other and I would never recommend working for the department I was in... I am hopeful other programs have better leadership ....

Although it might be different for everyone, my experience here was memorable. My manager, from the interview process to training to working he had a laid-back demeanor that was still respectable easy to get along with. Your coworkers will usually be composed of students that come to the school and find the bookstore as their first job, its basically a box of chocolates after that. The work culture is delightfully informal and the the workload tends to be on the lighter side until a new semester starts. I'd recommend this place as a starter to build up the experience and there are opportunities for growth within the company if it interests you or you could take your earned experience and use it to find a more advanced job. 

You would sign in at work and check any e-mails that you might have gotten from any new students. Once you had finished replying back to them we had advertising and marketing ideas we had to brainstorm and execute as well. When that work was finished, any helped needed at the resource desk was asked of us. I had learned interpersonal skills by interacting with other students in need of reliable information. The supervisors and management was amazing and super friendly. I couldn't have asked for a better set of co-workers for that year, we just got along so well. The most enjoyable thing about the job was the fact I had helped students entering post-secondary education, no knowing what is happening, and being their first and reliable interaction towards their journey.

I love being able to work for my school. I feel extremely involved and happy to be learning in the environment that I'm in. I want to make sure other people understand how wonderful Sheridan life can be, so I wanted to share my experiences with other potential students. I am often met with smiling excited people who are willing to listen and learn about the school. The team I work with is absolutely fantastic, and everyone is so hard working. The managers are full of smiles and happiness everytime I see them, and I couldn't be happier working for the school I love!

I enjoy helping the students with their assignments and citation questions.  It gets a bit hectic when students get impatient, but I calmly tell them that I will help them momentarily as I am helping another student.  I also often help to answer online question through our chat function the same time as I am helping students in person.  My co-workers are great, and really support my wanting to become full time.  I constantly apply for full time positions asking for feedback each time, then I correct what I did not have the last time, only to be given another hurdle to cross in the next interview.  My management tends to like that I am very flexible in my work schedule, and so is in no hurry to promote me to full time.

1 person from management acts like a child. When ever he's having a bad bay, he makes sure everyone else is having bad day. He also doesn't know personal boundaries and makes his employees very uncomfortable at times. 
       You normally just do some typical cleaning duties to start the morning such as vacuuming the weight-room floor, sweeping, and towel-mopping the gymnasium floor. Customer service is essential. You have to scan each students onecard for them to enter the facilities. 
       The best part of the job is attending varsity basketball games working as the "key cleaner" mopping up sweat from the athletes. Sounds bad, but you get to watch the whole game front row where all the action is so your shift passes by in no time.

No matter how long and how hard you may have worked for this college, if you're a contract professor you have virtually no relationship with anyone in your department—not with a supervisor, not with a colleague. So long as you teach the classes competently, treat students respectfully, and return graded assignments promptly, your job is done. There are zero performance reviews, there are zero efforts by management to integrate and welcome contract lecturers into the department. If and when work dries up and the college is unable to offer a contract, no one reaches out and says so. Instead, you sit around waiting, waiting, waiting, until finally you email the department and receive a curt "sorry, bye" reply. 

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Professor 6 salaries reported	$134 per hour
Tutor 3 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
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Research assistant 3 salaries reported	$23.00 per hour
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