Dungarvin reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(427 total reviews)
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Lori Kress

55% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Dungarvin has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 427 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Dungarvin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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427 reviews
1.0
Sep 24, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Location. Easy to get on. Most of your local staff are pretty good people because they don't understand how corporate works.

Cons

Literally everything. I see this company folding soon. Such an outdated organization. The competition is really gaining on them too. Completely out of touch with the present times. They literally list 80% of the staff once the purchase was over. They obliterated our activities program, They ruined our effective recruiting strategies, and they drove away talented staff and leadership. Run as fast as you can from this company.

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Dungarvin Response
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We are sorry to hear about your experiences in working for Dungarvin. Our Talent Acquisition team in partnership with HR has worked very diligently to implement new technologies and standardize Dungarvins Recruitment efforts/policy and procedures across the country. Although, change can be difficult for some we do believe it is best practices and a more candidate forward process to hiring managers conducting in-person interviews so the candidate knows who they would be working for. As well as the removal of paper applications and having a 48hour turnaround time on applications. It does appear from the time of your review it you have missed out on a lot of our integrations such as a new ATS (mobile friendly) and LMS which started roll out in July 2017. In addition to new various training programs for non-DSP's.
4.0
Aug 11, 2017

No Company is Perfect, Are You?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Dungarvin faces a big challenge to not only provide supports and services to a community of people who have an enormous variety of needs, but also to find and hire quality staff who have the very special ability and patience to work with these individuals and their needs. The company's job is helping people and consistently finding people to do that very important and special job is a huge challenge. Additionally, the money to pay the staff who help these people is dependent on a fluctuating government from the national level down to the local level, and those elected individuals opinion on the importance of people with disabilities and their needs. Then, let's include that each state laws can be different and Dungarvin needs to know them all in order to provide services and pay employees. That's a lot to juggle. Add on top of that making sure you're a financially stable company? Yeah... Dungarvin has its work cut out for them. In my observation, the company has always put quality of services first. Respecting and responding to the choices of people in need of supports. That said, when you depend on 4,000 people to provide those services for you, there are bound to be some problems. But as soon as they are brought to management's attention, I've never seen quicker response. I've worked for Dungarvin for several years and in that time I've switched positions and supervisors and locations. What I can tell any potential employee is when you prove yourself to be a valued employee, Dungarvin knows this and appreciates it and will do what they can to help you stay satisfied. If you want to be hired just to get a job to make money, this place is not for you. You have to be able to find the reward in what you do, over how much you make. That's what happens when you're in the social services field. The reward comes from the actions of the job, not the paycheck. I've seen many employees from direct care to top management stay for decades. I've seen employees who have lasted less than a month. You have to consider when you apply here, why you are applying? To help people, care about people, assist them with life goals? Then please, join the Dungarvin team! They need more people like you.

Cons

In my years here, sometimes I feel that Dungarvin bites off more that it can chew. This can impact employees by increasing pressure and duties on a temporary basis, and sometimes while the process is unfolding, that "temporary basis" can feel like it lasts forever. Dungarvin sometimes loses valuable employees to burn out or even leaving the company in this way, from direct care on up, which is disappointing. Additionally, because each state operations has different needs/supports, consistency is often very lacking. Re: pay and benefits, and employee appreciation, I think they are relatively decent, but I also think they can do better, if the owners really wanted to. While much of pay comes from outside funding sources, and that directly limits pay rates, I think Dungarvin could reevaluate some things to make employee appreciation/valuation in non-pay ways a higher importance.

3.0
Aug 8, 2017

Worked with Dungarvin for a year

Recommend
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Pros

Lots of down time and flexibility

Cons

Low salary and no opportunities for growth

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