Hanover Research reviews

I think negative energy can be contagious and people sometimes forget that working at Hanover is still a job and very few jobs are fun and glamorous all the time. There are parts of my job that I love (travel, meeting with clients, learning about the industry), but there are also the more mundane tasks that I don't always love but have still had a huge impact on my success. Hanover has a lot of new college grads and I think it is easy to get hung up on the less fun parts of the job and forget the first part of the "work hard, play hard" mentality. It's important to remember that to be successful, but more importantly truly feel accomplished, you will have to push through challenges along the way. Additionally, there are times that I wish management was a bit more transparent into the business, but that is something that I've seen start to change across the past few months and I've appreciated the chance to better understand the ins and outs behind the scenes.

There's lot of cons about Hanover though. Hanover will say they invest in your professional development and that there is upward mobility, this is true to "some" extent. I say "some" extent because it is all based on quantitative results for this position. You can be the hardest worker, but if your numbers aren't there (which is out of your control due to many factors) to be frank they don't care about you. There's lot's of favoritism, and certain managers should not be in a managing position as they have no clue how to lead. During my time there lots of incentives were taken away from the sales team and most of the people on the sales team felt there was no real leadership. If you're not hitting goal for that week, or even that month they will ride you to death. I would often work 12hr days just to stay afloat. In my time at Hanover (less than a year) I saw over 8 associates leave and 4 directors. Beware of working for Hanover on the sales/biz dev team it is truly a revolving door.