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    Global Experience Specialists Reviews

    Updated February 19, 2019
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    Global Experience Specialists President Steve W. Moster
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    Pros

    • "Good work life / balance if you are on top of your work" (in 11 reviews)

    • "Great people, a big company with a family like feel to it" (in 17 reviews)

    Cons

    • "work/life balance during trade shows is pretty bad" (in 12 reviews)

    • "long hours, no comradely, lots of micro managing" (in 17 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      Helpful (1)

      "Great place to work! Excellent Team!"

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      Current Employee - Graphic Designer
      Current Employee - Graphic Designer
      Recommends

      I have been working at Global Experience Specialists part-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Excellent caliber of clients, wonderful team mates, very supportive.

      Cons

      Not enough work to keep me around!!!

      Global Experience Specialists Response

      Dec 17, 2018 – Director Global Talent Management

      It's awesome to hear such positive feedback! We truly value our employees and really appreciate you taking the time to leave a review about your experience during your time with us. We have a lot of... More

    2. Helpful (1)

      "Poor Management"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend

      I have been working at Global Experience Specialists full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Flexible work schedule and travel availability

      Cons

      Management support, pay and insurance benefits are expensive

      Advice to Management

      Promote within and support your employees in all areas

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    3. Helpful (1)

      "Use to be a good place to work"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Global Experience Specialists full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Mostly Nice coworkers.
      Lots of time off.

      Cons

      Layoffs and closing of shared services building.
      Busy body middle managers who do not have a plan.

      Advice to Management

      Stop letting the competitors eat your lunch.
      Stop hiring yes men middle managers that have no clue about what they are doing.
      No vision is presented to employees, just a lot of useless town hall meetings that talk about nothing.

    4. Helpful (1)

      "Its okay"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend

      I have been working at Global Experience Specialists full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Your not micromanaged and you have the ability to work at your own speed. Flexible work schedule

      Cons

      No room for growth
      They dont often promote from within
      Pay

      Advice to Management

      Boost office morale and be more attentive to employees
      Older Management needs to be brought up speed with new technology and be held accountable

      Global Experience Specialists Response

      Jan 11, 2019 – Director Global Talent Management

      GES creates a fun and nurturing environment in which to work. We are very fast paced and have a lot going on. We do our best to ensure are processes are efficient and everyone has the tools they need... More

    5. "Love my Coworkers"

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      Current Employee - Exhibit Services Coordinator in Atlanta, GA
      Current Employee - Exhibit Services Coordinator in Atlanta, GA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Global Experience Specialists full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Travel with chances of overtime

      Cons

      Health insurance very expensive. Pay low compared to competitors.

      Advice to Management

      Keep up the great job communicating to your employees but can you listen to more of our ideas.

      Global Experience Specialists Response

      Dec 17, 2018 – Director Global Talent Management

      Thanks very much for the review and especially for the advice to management! We will keep our focus on great experiences and continue to listen as you suggest -- Thanks again....

    6. "Great place"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Global Experience Specialists full-time

      Pros

      The management and employees are great

      Cons

      Uses old dos system.for order entry

      Global Experience Specialists Response

      Dec 4, 2018 – Director Global Talent Management

      It's awesome to hear such positive feedback! We truly value our employees and really appreciate you taking the time to leave a review about your experience during your time with us. We have a lot of... More

    7. Helpful (2)

      "no compassion for employees"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Global Experience Specialists full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Great pay & work environment (at times)

      Cons

      Just saw my immediate supervisor get terminated after 20 years with the company due to "performance issues". Our city has been working non-stop since January and they terminated an operations manager with no prejudice. Our work field is a very stressful environment having to deal with meeting financial & productivity goals. When you add medical & personal issues that we all can encounter it makes our job difficult. There is no loyalty in this company. There is a reason why there is no employee retention in our company. Maybe we should re-evaluate our work structure & methodology to determine how we can best improve our methods while still maintaining a profitable company. Lets make incentives for lower level employees from additional vacation days earned to financial bonuses for various things including increasing special handling, cutting ste down, reducing claims, etc. If you were to ask the majority of employees in their respective cities to comment on our current work atmosphere, I'm sure there would be a considerable amount of comments regarding on how to improve our work environment. Lets do things to improve employee moral like maybe catered lunches during each fiscal quarter or maybe offer things to relieve stress and anxiety at work like a room dedicated to relieve stress with massage chairs or other equipment to help us relieve stress/tension and assist us in getting re-focused on tasks.

      No room for promotions. There should be a chance for promotions in each city. If the employee has been in a certain position for a certain amount of years, offer a promotion even if there is no open positions in that field or atleast make the merit raises a reasonable amount and not pennies on the dollar. Why force coordinators to be stuck at senior operations coordinators or regular coordinators with no advancement or for supervisors with no advancement to operations managers.

      Advice to Management

      I would love to see a suggestion email address or have visits from the upper management from president to COO to our individual offices from time to time to have a city hall type meeting with employees.

      Global Experience Specialists Response

      Dec 5, 2018 – Director Global Talent Management

      Your honest and candid feedback is appreciated. Work life balance is incredibly important in addition to ensuring our employees have the resources they need to support them personally and... More

    8. "Awesome Company"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Global Experience Specialists full-time

      Pros

      Takes care of employees

      Cons

      Too much load at a time

      Global Experience Specialists Response

      Oct 24, 2018 – Director Global Talent Management

      It's awesome to hear such positive feedback! We truly value our employees and really appreciate you taking the time to leave a review about your experience during your time with us. We have a lot of... More

    9. Helpful (1)

      "Admirable vision. Moving too fast."

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      Former Employee - Client Services in Atlanta, GA
      Former Employee - Client Services in Atlanta, GA
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Global Experience Specialists full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Large, global organization with opportunities to network and move positions between the different companies they own.

      Cons

      More concerned about profit margins over quality service. Awards sub-contracted Services to companies they don’t own when they have a portfolio of companies they do own who can provide the exact same sub-services. Promised me a certain amount of money to go back and get an education while working for them full-time, invoiced them when finished with program (grade minimum met), and didn’t pay me the amount they told me they would pay up front, came up with a bunch of excuses as to why they didn’t want to pay, and blamed other companies they owned for their mistake—educational reimbursement is a joke.

      Advice to Management

      Go private. Institute similar processes, procedures, and guidelines across all companies owned and reprimand employees who don’t abide by the rules more often to weed out the bad eggs. Implement qualified leadership within each company they own, ones that can prove they understand and can communicate the correct vision and goals of the organization as a whole.

      Global Experience Specialists Response

      Oct 24, 2018 – Director Global Talent Management

      Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. We too agree we have lots of great people here throughout the organization that have a passion for what they do! We believe we have a lot to... More

    10. Helpful (1)

      "Account Manager"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Global Experience Specialists full-time

      Pros

      Good company culture, get to travel to some fun cities

      Cons

      Business is very cyclical - something to get used to. You'll be incredibly busy for a few months then things really slow down - Nature of the industry

      Global Experience Specialists Response

      Oct 4, 2018 – Director Global Talent Management

      It's awesome to hear such positive feedback! We truly value our employees and really appreciate you taking the time to leave a review about your experience during your time with us. We have a lot of... More