Northern Virginia Community College Employer Reviews

Amazing school to work in.. Loved working in with the IT Department, Fun coworkers and always willing to teach if you asked the questions.

A place to learn and work at the same time, and in good environment.

Everything was good.
Typical days at work were productive and enjoyable.

Working at Northern Virginia Community College as a tutor and teaching assistant in the math department was very fulfilling. I was in close contact with the students and teachers and very involved in the learning process of everyone around me. It was inspiring to see older students going back to school and younger ones pursuing higher education. It – more... aided my personal development in interpersonal communication as well. Overall, it was a very positive experience with great coworkers and the occasional pizza party. – less

Worked with professors as a TA and did not get paid for my work. It was a good learning experience.

It was very helpful and great. I learnt a lot from it. I developed great communication, sales, business, technical and retail skills after three years of work experience.

Learned a lot about College systems and applications (Cisco, VPN, Student/Faculty accounts, Blackboard, etc).

Managed phone and email inquiries. Troubleshooted computers remotely and checked several campus servers. As well as, conducted office tasks.

Prepare classroom lecture, prepare exercises, provide interaction with students by asking questions, spend a lot time after class and outside of class with students having difficulty grasping certain topics. Offers a great educational environment and helpful co-workers. Hardest part of the job is ensuring all students are provided with an appropriate – more... learning environment and challenging assignments due to the wide disparity/gap among student's knowledge base; most enjoyable is realizing how much a student has learned when questions become more challenging and focused as the class goes forward. – less

This is an excellent position for someone looking to get their foot in the door to teaching English full time at the college level, particularly for someone who's a self-starter who works well independently. The Manassas campus at NOVA has a mentor program to help newbies, but I don't recall if the Woodbridge campus has that (nor do I know if the other – more... campuses have it). However, the other professors are helpful in providing samples of their own rubrics, classroom exercises, and anything else you may need. The hardest part of the job is creating your syllabi and lesson plans--they don't provide that for you. The most enjoyable part is working with the students--watching them grow and learn. Most of the students aren't interested in learning English composition, which is to be expected, so the goal is to make it interesting to them. The students are well-behaved and seem to enjoy group work the most. The pay at NOVA isn't so great for adjuncts, but that's true of adjunct positions anywhere. You won't be able to earn a living solely as an adjunct--you'll need to have another job as well. The more courses you teach the more you get paid, but it's still not enough to pay bills for this area, and you can spread yourself too thin by teaching too many. I taught one course while working a full time day job and it was time-intensive. I also taught two courses while working full time and that was just too much. I believe you are allowed benefits as an adjunct. – less

Hands on and learned plenty from Management. Great work life balance.

Patrol buildings and parking lots, checking camera, grounds for hazards, writing daily reports and entering criminal offenses into crime databases. The hardest part of the job is working nights. The most enjoyable part of the job is the laid-back environment. However management often maintain a scattered chain of command where important is not passed – more... on as reliably to do ones job. – less

During my time in college i did a Internship in Human Resources. I In joyed going to work every day, i liked the interaction with people every day, medical benefits, new employee training, the most enjoyable part for me, was leading people down the right path, when you give someone training, and they make it to management, something they never thought – more... would happen, or when they come back and tell you that something you said, or did made the person realize they could be something much more then they thought. – less

During my time in college i did a Internship in Human Resources. I In joyed going to work every day, i liked the interaction with people every day, medical benefits, new employee training, the most enjoyable part for me was leading people down the right path, when you give someone training, and they make it to management, something they never thought – more... would happen, or when they come back an tell you that something you said or did made the person realize they could be something much more then they thought. – less

I have worked at Northern Virginia Community College for over 15 years including starting out as a P-14 classification. The benefits or wonderful, educational opportunities, administration and overall employment experience that has allowed me to retain my loyalty and longevity. I would like to continue here but economic times are causing me to look – more... for and increase in my salary. I hope something works out. – less

responsible for lectures, lesson planning, coaching students

A typical day was spent at work unloading pallets of goods as they were need through out the store. Nothing was learned there that couldnt be learned on the street. The management was there for the store and that was it. The only difficult thing about working there was trying to get extra hours, bc all the other employees were alwys trying for the same. – more... It was not a job anyone would want to hold longer than a seasonal timeline. – less

Relamped lighting fixtures and replaced ballasts in fluorescent fixtures
Replaced belts, filters, bearings, and motors on air handling units
Performed soldering, brazing and solvent cementing on HVAC piping
Repaired flush valves on toilets and urinals
Replaced belts, tower fill, make-up water valves on cooling towers
Pulled basket and wye strainers – more... on cooling towers
Painting in equipment rooms
Performed water chemistry testing on chilled water, hot water and condenser water loops, programming controllers, moving chemical supplies to equipment rooms, performing manual bleed down when necessary
Recovered refrigerant from old air conditioners and refrigerators
Checked and charged rooftop units
Lubricated and repaired circulator pumps – less

I enjoy working for this company. My co-workers made the environment fun.

Working with the college I have learned a lot about how to manage other staff and co-exist with my co-worker. Most challenge about the job is time. We have a lot to do and sometime not enough time to do it. I learn to divided up the time and use it wisely. What I enjoy most about this job is I get to help other people in term of guiding them to the – more... right direction. – less

Typical day includes writing citations, office works such as filing, cash drawer balancing, report generation via software, closing out credit card machines, filing reports, etc etc.
I learned the things above from them and the management (immediate) was very nice. Co-workers can be a bit immature or irresponsible but they are all a good bunch and pull – more... through when needed.

The hardest part was dealing with the politics and the customers but I'm sure that is a part of every job. – less