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Great place to work if you don't want to be respected by managers! - Research Associate Verbatim Advisory Group Employee Review

1.0
Oct 19, 2016
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Pros

The pay isn't horrible if you get hired directly, especially since the work is so boring. You can bonus every month if you get enough surveys. You get experience with Microsoft Outlook, Access, Excel, and Word. Most of the other research associates are really awesome people.

Cons

The work is so incredibly monotonous and boring. The management is the worst I have ever worked for as far as giving no respect to research associates, especially since most of them are temps. Speaking of which, they let go of temps constantly with no warning. What's worse is that before each person was let go, they had a meeting with a manager to "help them". Management treats you like you're replaceable and do not care about you, your life, or anything going on. They only care that you're there and punching the phones constantly. Management also talks negatively about former employees, which is extremely inappropriate and goes to show they don't care about their employees at all. Managers also love to say they were in the research position before, but what they don't tell you is that it was many years ago, things have changed tremendously, and they refuse to accept and acknowledge that the job is harder than it used to be.

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Verbatim Advisory Group Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We are committed to creating a positive and transparent environment for all employees, so we’re disappointed to hear about some of your experiences. We’d like to offer some clarity on several of the points addressed in this review. Management: Team members that are performing below expectations receive additional coaching and mentorship from the management team. We strive to help all employees be successful in their role. Temp-Perm: Some team members are hired temp-to-perm via staffing agencies. After completing one week of training modules, new team members are expected to show improved performance month to month until they are performing at expectations in month three or four. The process is transparent as goals are outlined during the training week, tools for tracking performance are provided and each team member receives their performance stats and KPIs on a monthly basis. During the initial training period it can happen that a team member or management may decide that phone-based primary research is not the right role for them. Promote from Within: Project Managers and Research Analysts all started as Research Associates and there have been two promotions in the last 12 months.

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