International Rescue Committee reviews

Organization needs to reconcile colonial roots and current neo-colonial practices by examining the make-up of their leadership and top decision makers.

management is never prepared for the number of clients we have. Headquarters assigns unnecessary trainings and seems to prefer to hire outside the company and not value moving their own employees as much. There was very little opportunity for growth unless you happened to be in a department with new funding and opening positions. high turnover rate and work is simply passed on to those who stay. The emotional trauma is real and the preparation for healthy work-life balance and boundaries is essentially non-existent. also, the nature of being a caseworker means you either sacrifice your work-life balance or you build boundaries and your clients will probably directly suffer and it will feel like you are responsible, sometimes other staff will blame you and tell you to resolve issues for clients simply since they expect a caseworker to do anything that is not required of another team member. even if it is not within your job description, and some may resent you, especially after you have been there for 6 months and start to realize you cannot keep up with the workload.