When I got my adjusting license in October and started talking to potential employers it became very clear that I needed ‘real world experience’. I had gone to a local meeting for adjusters, and everyone was very supportive and congratulatory on the achievement, but they also said I should embrace an opportunity to go work the [...]
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Twenty Five years ago, when the PC was really just the IBM PC, Apple had their first Mac’s on the market and the IBM typewriter was still common place in the office going into ‘computers’ seemed like a great career move. If hind site is 20/20, would any of us do it again? Its a tough question. [...] I have been using computers since 1976 when my father got one of the first Apple II’s. They were simple machines back then, but just as temperamental as today’s systems. Of course throughout college we used computers (mainframes, mini’s and PC’s) and then out of college I was in the IT field, so it was basically [...] Its been a while since many of us have been in a classroom setting for an extended period of time. For some it may be over 20+ years! We are learning a program called Xactimate. It is a claims estimating tool that is both powerful and complex. Our knowledge of this software is key to us [...] After being out of college for 19 years I was actually nervous about going back to school to become an independent insurance adjuster. Its not that I haven’t had to continuously learn throughout my career in Information Technology, attend classes, get certified on software and the like. There was something different about this, first off it [...] |
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