Great Place to work - Graduate Building Surveyor Muswellbrook Shire Council Employee Review

- Family friendly workplace to some extent - Engaged consultants with good credentials to conduct a very detailed employee effectivenous survey that produced some very very Accurate indicators of organisational conduct and performance.

- Get used to senior staff taking the credit for your proactive ideas (ie you'll be told its not practical, only to see it reported as an initiative to senior staff.) - Salaries pretty discusting consdering the work loads - No direction from some in the Exec team - No assitance to prioritize workload with the response being "all of it" - Recognition for job well done or good results has to be extracted - you wont be told otherwise - No interest in employee efficiency, so long as the job gets done eventually - You will encounter a lot of promises at interview and in early stages, but the become "non core promises" once you start to call on thoses promises. - High staff turnover - No interest to reatin good staff - Senoir staff rewarded financially via contracts for good outcomes, but not for the remainder of staff. - Org wide survey highlight some very bad practices, and these are being ignored, with "plans put in place", but no observed intent to rectify issues identified.

The other staff were friendly.

The claim they are flexible, but it depends on your manager. For me flexibility meant they would let you go to an appointment as long as you made the time up. It did not mean varying start of finish times or taking more than one "flex day" per 3 weeks.