The person that I interviewed was Vicky Young, who works right here at York College of York College, is a private college for the liberal arts, and may be a private college,but it is as inexpensive as a public college. It has been growing by great numbers in the lastcouple of years, and with that has come many new obstacles. As the Human Resource BenefitsSpecialist at York College Miss Young has to deal with the different complications that comewith any growing business. Vicky Young has worked for York College for the last year and seven months. Eventhough she has not worked at York College for a long time she has seen a lot of changes in thelittle bit of time that she has been here. She worked at RiteAid Corporation before she came toYork College, as well as a Benefits Representative for the west coast district of the corporation. After some time at that position, she worked her way up to become the Lead Benefits handler forthe whole west coast division for the RiteAid Corporation. When Miss Young got to YorkCollege, there were a lot of different problems that she had to deal with but one of the biggestwas the problem with the benefits package that they gave employees. York College has a middleman that they pay to take care of the benefits for the teachers. The problem with this is that ifthere are any changes made in the benefits at York College, it does not get changed around in thecomputer system for about five months. For those five months, the employee still expects to getbenefits so it has to come out of York College’s pocket. The insurance that the college hascovers only about two to three months of that period, so Miss Young has to find a way to fix thisproblem. This is just one example of the many problems that she has to deal with in her jobeveryday. As I stated earlier, York College has been growing and expanding faster then ever in thelast couple of years. This can be seen just by looking around the ca...
