Advanstar Reviews

Pros

knowledge of industry and potential, network connections, rapport ,,

Cons

no room for growth if your not a favorite

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Casual work environment. Balance between work and personal life.

Cons

Advanstar does not give good raises. Very very low for some of the best performers. Advanstar does not cherish their employees. Its about the numbers not the people behind the numbers. Advanstar has no room for advancement and frowns upon individuals who request more.

Advice to Senior Management

Advanstar needs to pay more attention to its employees. If Advanstar made it a point to make room for advancement and reward their employees with bonuses and salary raises productivity may improve. However, I feel Advanstar is clearly taking advantage of the current recession. You can see this with how they pay their employees and how they pay their vendors. As slow and as little as possible in order to make the bottom line more bigger.

Pros

Work Life balance is generally good. Office is bright and clean. People are generally nice to work with and are passionate about the products they work on.

Cons

Lack of communication from leadership/senior management. Lack of a mission. Always fearful your position/job is in jeopardy. Constant use of permanent temps covering for those who have left for more secure employment.

Advice to Senior Management

more communication about the mission and a better sense about job security would enable more creativity and risk taking.

Pros

The team I worked with was generally efficient and positive. The manager was very understanding when it came to sick days and time off to visit family, etc.

Cons

Despite success of certain departments, the parent company still laid off several people, keeping a large staff in less successful divisions. Overall, very inefficient management and lack of job stability.

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of looking at immediate profits and losses, look at the bigger picture and reward creativity.

Pros

it is a very Casual envonment

Cons

Dated and obsolete slow thinking no bonus and salary increases at any time

Advice to Senior Management

talk to employees about issues and salaries and not to ignore major things.

Pros

Decentralized management enables opportunity for those with initiative and drive

Cons

Well entrenched and ineffective senior management surrounding competent CEO creates leadership vacuum. Ill-conceived digital media strategy.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in a digital content guru - the combined wisdom of the current management team got you here.

Pros

Casual work environment, 37.5-hour work week, generally surrounded be competent people

Cons

Poor leadership at the executive level; layoffs, everyone is doing more work with no raises for last two years. Loss of simple benefits like 405k match. Low salaries.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't treat employees like we're too childish to understand what's going on with the company. Communication is key at every level.

Pros

Good opportunities for travel. Some really great co-workers.

Cons

Offices are very corporate and dull. Management doesn't care much for their employees.

Advice to Senior Management

appreciate your employees and give praise where praise is due.

Pros

Small company easier to get work done

Cons

Lots of restructuring and loss of job security

Advice to Senior Management

Value your employees.

Pros

Salary was okay. There were opportunities to work with interesting people outside of the company. There was quite a lot of interesting travel.

Cons

Poor quality of products. Management often had no understanding of products, hired people who also knew nothing, everyone just bluffed their way through.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to quality and don't let the budget rule everything. Hire people who really know the subject areas and can add intellectual value to the products.