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• Worked as a technician in a mess of a lab. In general the U of A is a good employer. Be careful who you work with. Also only offers contract positions in this line of work; leads to confusing work organization. No defined roles, people coming and going constantly, no accountability, no official training, no official methods, etc.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 10 September 2021 by Rater #9 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Great place to work, fantastic benefits, management I've worked with have been encouraging, supportive and treat their staff with humanity. I've had a lot of fun working for this institution.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 15 March 2017 by Rater #8 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• If you plan to work for AICT/IST/whatever they're calling the central IT department this week, be wary.
  
  Like a lot of shady employers that use the contract model, they use it as a means of occasionally re-writing your job description and hiring those that came after you at lower pay rates, creating a tiered sort of system. Also, keeping benefits out of your reach for at least a year all while promising that some day, you might be able to get a promotion and be covered. If you make it, though, the benefits package is awesome. If not, you'll get cut when your contract comes up.
  
  Management is currently wrapped up in the Manager Tools cult of personality and while they may not come out and say it, you're expected to drink their kool-aid and pay lip service if you want to explore any kind of advancement options. The middle-management won't help you with any kind of problem and seems paralyzed when expected to do any kind of management or even proved answers regarding processes.
  
  Relationships are more important than the skills for which you'll presumably be hired for. If you can schmooze and be political, you'll slide through the ranks here like a buttered eel. If you're not sitting within arms' reach of management, expect to become invisible, preventing any kind of advancement opportunities from being offered to you unless you're capable of making some kind of significant noise or impact.
  
  On the whole, if you enjoy working in IT because you enjoy working with technology, avoid this place like the plague. The equipment everywhere is ridiculously out of date, much-needed processes don't exist and no one wants to implement them, asset management is a joke, no one has any answers when you need them, you will wind up becoming system administration because they don't know how to manage a lot of basic admin tasks or can't be bothered to communicate with anyone, etc. It's a gong show. If you're a middle-management weasel, then you'll make a killing in this place.
  
  Good luck!   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 17 July 2014 by Rater #7 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• But has the highest paid central administration in Canada.  

  Posted on 27 February 2013 by Rater #6 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• The university of Alberta is so large that experiences will vary greatly. However, Dept of Medicine known for their heirarchal workforce and uber micro-managing by supervisors/managers to the point of having to ask permission for every medical appt!! And to 'log' this in a log! But the supervisors who implement this are not doing it themselves and of course take a lot of days off. Also a log of every task requested of you by the person in supervisory role- extremely micromanaging and counterproductive. Ongoing Joke is that soon we will have to log when we go to the bathroom. And these people in dept of med in supervisory positions themselves seem to do squat all day- leave early, sit in thier offices and read, not accountable to anyone. Doesn't seem the same in other depts though. In general U of A support staff majorly overworked & underpaid   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 24 February 2012 by Rater #4 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Best place to work in. Good place to get a good experience and excellent atmosphere. Ver very motivating, encouraging and supportive management staff.
  
  Cheers  

  Posted on 10 September 2010 by Rater #3 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I work for the Office of the Registrar. The senior staff are helpful, cooperative, and quite reasonable. The tasks are interesting and quite stimulating, most of the time. Management tries to find work for the staff, most of the time, or opportunities to improve the quality of the finished. These initiatives help improve the quality of the work environment and the University overall. The communication at the Office of the Registrar is quite good and the members of many different teams collaborate in the work tasks regularly. The senior staff respect any dedicated employee's contributions as long as it fits in the business model and plan, and many of the staff are quite easy to work with.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 10 June 2009 by Rater #2 | Comments (2) | Flag as inappropriate

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• There is no recognition of the faculty's hard work!  

  Posted on 24 May 2009 by Rater #1 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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