The Lodestar Day Resource Center literally helped save my life by providing me with the services I needed to get a job and an apartment. The people who work there are amazing and compassionate, and always helped me when I asked.
Review from Guidestar
I was part of a "short list" of candidates for a position at Lodestar. We were told to come in for a tour of the facility and to schedule an interview if we saw ourselves potentially working there. With 6 other eager applicants I was given a tour of the facility. After the tour we were all promised to be given the chance to interview Thursday or Friday of that week and that we'll be emailed specific interview time by COB that day.
After running a couple of errands I signed on to my email to send the customary thank you for the tour email and in my email box was an email from Ruben Soliz thanking me for coming in but he won't be interviewing me.
As someone that served as an Executive Director in the past and have hired numerous people I found it very unprofessional and I told him how disturbing it went down. From a professional/Executive Director point of view I did not, and still do not, understand why they would make us all come down for a tour only to not interview us. What could they possibly have gathered from the hour or so that we were they that would determine who would get an interview (if anyone even did) and who they refuse to interview (even though they promised we'll all be interviewed.)
I am sure that they do great things in the community but again from someone that ran an organization in the past I can not see how this unprofessional hiring practice is going to ensure the best candidate to gets the position. Were they looking for the person that did not take a look at the website and asked redundant questions that they would have known the answers to if they only did their research?
It is poorly manage and sadly the ones who are going to be most affected by this poor hiring process are the clients.