The Ensign Group interview question

What is your management experience?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

1 Feb 2017

Just like any other company, it's who you know - not what you know. My interview process was totally different than a lot of other people because I had a particular skillset. 3 interviews in 3 days and a job offer...which morphed into an Administrator in training for a different division in Ensign. I wanted to be an AIT, so I took it and left probably the best division in the company (there's about 10 divisions). There are some incredible people at Ensign, but there are some abusive, degrading people too. They are so fixated on education and experience in order to become an Administrator, but the leaders write texts and emails completely void of grammar and spelling...and when you ask them to clarify because you literally can't understand what they said...you are in the dog house - and it's tough to get out of. I inherited a gang infested facility full of people that should not be there, and after my predecessor told me that he would help me manage the turn around, what he really meant is "you have to be profitable...and your facility needs to run perfectly within 30 days". I made it profitable in 60 days and they left me alone for a month, and then another month, but then I had a bad month, lost about $4,500.00 and suddenly I was the worst person in the world. I had spies and written warnings and all kinds of things. They wanted me out, and the job made my health conditions (that I always managed at previous stressful jobs) out of control...When I came forward and said I'm breaking down, the response was literally: My advice is to resign, because we are driven by performance (money), and if you're not healthy, you should resign because you'll get fired soon. WOW, compassion. You have to be a certain type of person to be a successful Administrator at Ensign, and trying to be that person was literally killing me. So just keep that in mind.

Anonymous

10 July 2016

They prefer you have extensive experience managing people before they accept you into their administrator in training position.