Dolan Media Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Dolan Media

Pros – Great group of people to work with

Cons – Salaries are lower then market standards

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dolan Media

Pros – Good Benefits
Please phsycial work environment
Most co-workers honorable, pleasant
Targeted publications continue to be respected in the marketplace

Cons – Inferior management in Colorado Springs office unresponsive to market place realities and incapable of building cooperative teams. True in both sales and editorial departments.

Advice to Senior Management – Print is dying fast. Invest in digital technology and smart phone applications. Challenge employees to embrace new media, not endlessly document how they've spent their working hours.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dolan Media

Pros – Management too preoccupied with administrative busy work to interfere with the daily responsibilities of individual employees.

Cons – Management unqualified and ill-prepared to meet the challenges confronting today's media companies. Managers in Dolan's regional offices are hired or promoted because they willingly execute corporate dictates and do not question the company's lack of responsiveness to change.

Advice to Senior Management – Today's successful companies value innovation and creativity. They respect talented employees, recognize hard-work, and reward performance. Working for Dolan is difficult because every employee is reminded through company policies and management practices that individual effort is not highly valued. Every employee feels dispensible. It's little wonder that employee turnover is rampant, even in this tough economy and in a tougher industry.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dolan Media

Pros – very good paper - wins awards

Cons – crazy-high turnover which has created own set of challenges - no leadership - too many B/C-players

Advice to Senior Management – Get a handle on the place - has great potential. Dolan is a great company - St. Louis is in trouble...losing revenue, losing good people, losing market share for public notice that pays our bills, losing credibility with vendors, etc.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dolan Media

Pros – Good to get experience in a print and online media setting, as well as experience in the legal world. Some basic CS aspects were important, leadership was very open to suggestions, cold calling experience was a first. Not fun, but worth having.

Cons – At times, tasks had to be sought out. Also, there were instances in which I was getting conflicting guidance from different parties.

Advice to Senior Management – The major thing that I would say here is to be more visible, and to give people more feedback even when they don't ask for it.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dolan Media

Pros – Its a job with a salary and average benefits at a reasonably stable company. Peers were some of the nicest people I've worked with and maintain contact with many of them.

Cons – Honestly, the worst job I've ever had. Everywhere I've worked previously I've received a raise at 6 months, another at 12 months, and then anually after that. I actually lost money each year I was with this company! No raises and my health care costs increased each year as the company cut its contribution amount. No training; no advancement opportuntiies.

Constantly met or exceeded expectations and even begged to take an increased role in the organization. I was a model employee and became so frustrated and de-motivated that I had to quit to maintain my sanity.

The worst part is I actively engaged management about my desire to stay, the factors driving my decision to seek alternate employment, and after six months nothing had changed and no explanation was given.

Advice to Senior Management – If you don't take care of your top end talent then they will go elsewhere. You'll be left with the least talented and effective people. See "The Dead Sea Effect" written by Bruce Webster

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dolan Media

Pros – Benefits are OK for company its size

Cons – Pay is not a priority

Current Employee – been working at Dolan Media

Pros – Salary and benefits are better than most.

Cons – Upper management completely inexperienced. Turnover extremely high of late.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to those actually doing the work. They are in the trenches and understand client needs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend