American Red Cross Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Depressing work place."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"It's a job."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't take this job unless you're desperate. Hours suck and you're completely underpaid. Not to mention turnover is unreal."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"It's a very negative atmosphere. No praise for anything good you do and they only dwell on the negative. Management is a complete joke. No one in the lab is happy with there job. completely underpaid and you feel they could care less about their employees. This place is a joke. It's a shame."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try appreciating the fact that some of your employees bust their butts for no praise at all. Try giving employees raises sometime!! or an incentive to work. Everything there is negative including your employees' attitudes."

"Management needs to work on their employee relations and ethics of their decisions."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Flexibility."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Inconsistency in procedures."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your employees."

"Educational."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Humanitarrian work."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Hard to employ personnel."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Ease employment of qualified personnel."

"Job security, but no opportunity for advancement."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Job security."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Non-profit organization, limits advancement opportunities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Cost savings are not recognized even though this is their goal."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"It is a volunteer organization run by committed and dedicated personnel who respond to disasters admirably."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is worth one's time and efforts to apply for any position that one is interested in using other viable electronic means."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Like many other voluntary organizations rebounding from the economic downturn, we must operate on very limited funds, which limits our resources. Therefore we must rely on donations to assist us during these difficult times."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better communications and response time to inquiries from both staff and volunteers alike."

"American Red Cross was a good organization for me to get hands on HR experience."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Very good work/like balance."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Nothing."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"I enjoyed the location I was positioned at with the light commute made it more comfortable at work."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"I didn't like the assignments that was given to us that was not pertaining to the job description."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"Teamwork environment. Everyone was treated as a team member regardless of position. Sometimes, party environment."

"The American Red Cross was fair. There was a consistent change of management throughout the time I was there which made it unstable and difficult to adjust at times. My job was fulfilling. It was fast paced and busy, which I like."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"I liked being able to work independently as well as with others as I coordinated blood drives. I liked the planning process and paying attention to all the details of the event before, during and after. I also liked being in all phases of that process for different blood drives at all times."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask what will be expected of you in detail so you know what to expect because training is on the job."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"I did not like the constant change in management and sales representatives for different territories that needed to be covered."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take a more holistic view of the agency overall and not focus so much on individual regions."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"The team was wonderfull and helping patients with valuable donor tissue was excellent. Unfortunately I knew they were not succeeding and did end up selling that branch. I was hoping to grow in management experience and to make a little more elsewhere before I could have been let go by new management."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"The only thing I regret about leaving the American Red Cross is I was offered a management position at Kinetic Concepts Inc. and needed to leave the Red Cross 1 month before deserving a life time pension of at least $1000 every month. Unfortunately, Kinetic Concepts Inc. took too much of my time away from my family so I needed to leave them and go to Phygen, LLC."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep a responsible team, manage accounts payable/receivable appropriately and promote sales as aggressively as possible without paying too much in the effort."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Being able to work from home more often would be a big asset for myself."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"I am able to use my management skills to better my community and help my fellow man."

"ARC is a good place to work but hard to advance in managment positions because of employee longevity."

What do you like about working at American Red Cross?

"I love the mission of the ARC. I enjoy working with all the various departments. I advise and consult with all levels of managment from the CEO to frontline supervisors on all areas of policy, practices, laws, labor. I have enjoyed the freedom to initiate best practices as it relates to the company's obligations towards its employees. I have enjoyed creating good working relationships between staff and management. I really enjoy coaching management and conducting training on how to be a more effective and better manager. I like being the go to person in HR. I like being busy every day so that at the end of the day I am surprised that it is already time to go home."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The ARC can be challenging in that it experience a lot of changes in policies and practices due to the regulatory nature of its business. The organization is evolving and the systems in place at a national level can frustrate the workforce on the ground. Patience is key."

What don't you like about working at American Red Cross?

"It is difficult to move up in the Human Resource area because the job is limited to one HR Manager in the Southern California Region and one HR Director in the Division. Historically, people stay in these positions until they retire. So, there is no room for movement up. Also the pay is below the average wage for this type of position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When in house managers are managed by offsight managers, there should be more regular oversight and in person visits with managed staff to get a true picture on how the manager is really doing."