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Golin is a great place to start your career in public relations and the teams are nice and always encouraging you to try new things and allow you to make mistakes. Choose Golin if you want to pick an agency to work at for a few years. You'll learn and grow a lot.

However, the cons are they pay below the workload you're given and the work-life balance is okay compared to other agencies. The overtly nice environment can stifle honest feedback and transparency about job security. It can feel clique-y at times yet everyone tries to include everyone. Also, unlimited PTO isn't as great as it sounds since your workload increases before or after returning.

Where to start? There is a lot I love about Golin. 
The people across the network are supportive, communicative, and apt to help out as needed in any way they can.
The benefits are great- unlimited PTO, reimbursements for health and wellness initiatives, education reimbursements are just a few!
Every role has a clearly defined growth path too so you know there is something next for you to work toward.


Golin had a great culture when I started, but it all fell apart when the three male CEOs took over. I was able to work on some of the world's greatest brands, but there was almost no work-life balance.  Unlimited PTO, the push for diversity and inclusion are all for show.  Great if you're young and don't mind building your work portfolio by working non-stop, but it was clear that past a certain age you could plan on being let go.  Too many talented, smart leaders were let go while I was there.

If you are interested in working in an Agency, Golin is a solid choice. It has a very strong company culture and self-identity. With offices all over the US as well as globally.
As should be expected with agencies, occasionally the work life balance is not great, but Golin does try to address this as much as possible.
I genuinely had a great experience at Golin and was able to advance from an intern to a manager with in 3 years.

Golin is a PR firm that is all about the people that work for them and the clients they work for. Everyday they strive for excellence and go all in. To get a better understanding of the values and culture of this company look on their website at www.golin.com

Golin is a great place for entry level people to experience agency life and get a taste of the PR industry. If you are high performing, you'll see the rewards for a little while but they will slow down once you get to the manager level. At that point, you can expect to be overworked and undervalued. It's a place you have to leave and then come back to to get paid what you're worth, which is why there are so many boomerangs.

When I first started working at Golin, I was excited and drawn in by the eye-catching graphics on the company website, and the fact that they represented brands like McDonald's, Adidas and Mountain Dew. But I don't think that excitement has stuck - each of the new initiatives the company takes on feels like they are forcing "coolness" down our throats.

I loved my time at Golin. You typically are working on accounts doing some pretty great work. It can however get a bit mundane with product launches but if you want to work on some exciting brands, this is the place to be!

Golin has been a great place to gain hands on public relation experience so far. My only complaints are that the office doesn't participate in Summer Fridays but that's due to the unlimited paid time off perks.

This is a company that cares about its employees. The benefits are great and the employees are smart, kinds and creative. I was lucky enough to work there for 27 years. If they have an office near where I live now, I would still be with GolinHarris.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Associate 8 salaries reported	$48,625 per year
Director 9 salaries reported	$121,159 per year
Senior manager 4 salaries reported	$100,500 per year
Manager 1 salary reported	$75,000 per year
Influencer 11 salaries reported	$95,591 per year

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