Do you know the saying "If its not broke, don't fix it"? If you really want to know what is going on in YOUR company it would behoove you to talk to your employees, not middle management that has NO idea how things are done on the ground level, but the people that have made money for the company and are now being given the shaft because someone "thinks" they have a better idea of how "he" thinks it should be? I have been in the corporate world for a long time and I have never seen such a mismanagement of management! Its a shame that a company can take a school (like Wyotech) and completely destroy it by listening to incompetent people! Like I said before if you really want to know what is going on in your company and care at all, you would talk to your employees because the people that you are listening to now have no clue and will tell you what you want to hear, now is not the time to throw crap at the wall to see what sticks!
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I agree with earlier dude. That Jose dude running Wyo Tech sucked! I think he is a rep or a massage therapist now?
Well they didn't pay most employees today so........when can I judge?
I have read the posts about the various peeps mentioned running Wyo Tech. Maybe you all could be right but 18 months ago goes back to CCI and all the crap that we all went through. Also if Wyo was so great why did Jose and Nicole etc. run it to the ground with 200 Field Reps.In the last 18 months weren't there only like 25-40 Wyo Tech Field Reps? It is easy to get starts during good times but with the scrutiny and the stigma on for profit schools obviously previous management could not handle it. Lets just see what new crew can do and then judge.
Everyone knew the risk when a company with no experience in education took over. Even worse was how bad the reputation of Everest and Wyotech had become. WyoTech's reputation has been declining for years since CCi could not invest the capital needed to maintain the great reputation it once had. Also helping to degrade the Wyotech brand was the students that admissions enrolled that could barely read or write, had no motivation to succeed and were only there for the stipends. It takes years to build a great reputation but a very short time to destroy one.
Look People, its a rap. To Dave Hawn: Payback is a B###h! I have no sympathy for you, or this debacle you call a company. In fact, I rather enjoy watching this circus self destruct day by day! I have a bottle of champagne on ice the day you officially close the doors! However, good luck Davie & keep the checks coming.
Dave, for what it is worth. In the later stages of CCI Jack didn't hire people that knew anything about running an educational establishment. They were hired to run his scam of students that could not understand the debt obligations they were getting involved with to increase CCI's revenues. The management you "purchased" from CCI is worthless, unless you are trying to continuing the scam. All I have seen since you took over is the continuing of the scam. You bought into a market - career college - that is on the decline quickly. All you need now is to close everything down and start collecting the student loans - ECMC is going to make out great! Zenith is going to get screwed.
Post 739 is right. The Everest people leading WyoTech are clueless to what drives this school and what approach to take to reach its students. Obviously the Everest admissions management, Gary, Jill, Troy, Cassie, Mark and Jason are monitoring this site now and responding to each post about their incompetence. You’re over your head and have no idea how to bring WyoTech back to where it once was. It’s not about having the right presentation on the iPad, or the right timing to go the high schools it’s the relationships you people have destroyed since taking over. You’ve been here about 18 months and nothing, not one thing has improved. Your lack of decision making, inconsistent business model and ignorance of WyoTech’s history will keep you from any progress now or in the future. We at the campuses wish we would have been sold to an owner or ownership group that knew how to bring us back to prosperity.
Message number 2 to Upper Management (Dave Hawn): Our apologies for the illogical, poorly articulated ramblings of the OP. We know it is broken. The entire career school industry is broken. We need aggressive, creative strategies to get this fixed. Keeping things they way they were (apparently the wish of the OP) is a go out of business strategy. Assuming that you want to rebuild the brand and drive enrollment (there is some question about that), please listen to employees, but take it with a grain of salt.