Mad Men meets Mean Girls - Account Manager AbelsonTaylor Employee Review

I want to thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. I am sorry that your experience at AbelsonTaylor did not match our intention of being the best place you ever worked. We take pride in our agency and are taking your feedback seriously and addressing your experience. Thanks also for your advice. Communication can be challenging, and we try and align leaders and teams to work appropriately to meet our client needs. Sometimes we do ask our employees to work late and while we understand that can be frustrating, this is simply the reality of working in advertising. We try hard to show our appreciation for the dedication our employees deliver on a daily basis with things like free lunch Friday, happy hours, special events, and most recently, we introduced summer Fridays and more flexibility around working from home. It has been widely successful thus far. Additionally, we have a structured in-house professional development program in place that caters to our staffs needs and aspirations. With a significant investment in time and resources, we offer these programs to further our employees careers with us. Our new onboarding process was launched this spring and the program expands over the new hire’s first week to provide a more in-depth training on AT processes and programs. After a few months in to the program, we find our new employees are finding much success in their roles. Upward mobility is a key focus of the agency. Many of our employees have very successful careers, which we are very proud of. The average tenure for our employees is 8.5 years (compared to the average in our industry of 4). I’m sorry you did not feel that you could grow your career with us, as many have. For what it’s worth, we recently completed a SWOT analysis of the agency, by an outside consultant, and we are able to better understand our areas of strengths and weaknesses and have already implemented several tactics to help us achieve our goals for the years to come. Additionally, we have been winning awards for over 25 years and continue to do so every year. We are extremely proud of the work our staff does, and being recognized by our peers time and time again, only validates that. One of the biggest things we have going for us is that we are still and will always be an independent agency. We are privately owned by 14 current employees, most of whom started in pretty junior positions and that number will continue to increase. It’s pretty rare in our industry to stay this committed to our staff at AbelsonTaylor and not get swept up by big networks. If you would like to share more about your experience, including your opinion of our culture, please contact me by emailing me personally at beth.carik@abelontaylor.com so that we can set up a time to talk. Thank you again for the feedback. It helps us make AT a better place and best of luck in your future endeavors.