Would you recommend a position with SF to your friends and family members? My SIL has been out of work for a few months. She and my brother have a family and finances are lean for them. She is desperate to find a positon but I am not sure if this will be a good fit for her. I’d like to help her but at the same time I don’t know if I should.
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I don’t try to judge people off their problems, but she sounds like someone that runs s–t into the ground. Future hire for sure.
As a stop-gap I can see her taking it until she finds something in her field or something better. Long term, forget it.
Only if she has very thick skin and nerves of steel
No never. If my son said he wants to follow in dads footsteps and be a claim adjuster id slap him.
Its not really state farm, its the insurance industry. claim adjuster is a dead field. these companys want to remove the human element of claim handling, all of them.
Its only going to get worse as the legacy boomer customer base dies off and their multi plan policy for homes/boats/multiple cars/life/and business insurance goes poof and is replaced by a broke millennial making 35k a year who has a $10k car they want to insure as cheap as possible and maybe renters insurance....
Top if off with the younger kids not wanting to talk to other humans and advancing technology.
Nope, this field is in a deep decline, and the real decline hasnt even really started....this is all preparation.
Ding ding ding ding, winner winner, chicken dinner. Finally an intelligent comment. And the answer to your question is then they could not play the victim.
Companies are begging for workers these days.
It seems like there are a lot of people unhappy with their current position.
I wonder why those unhappy people don't find another job.
come to SF expecting "just a job" but a job they wont just fire you from unless you try. Oh and making under 40k for like 5 years has to be ok with you (eventhough their physical locations you need to make 50k a year or youll struggle with rent)
dont be fooled with the companies past successes and status as being large with deep pockets. this company acts like a broke mom & pop company thats struggling to just exist.
do i recommend state farm? its better than nothing, and thats what SF has been trying desperately hard to reach, its not easy I guess going from the most sought after insurance employer to the least, but SF is determined to move to the middle pack of insurance companies.
Its clear SF doesnt see a future in human claim handlers.
I would shovel SH*T as deep as a giraffes a– before I would take a job in operations in today's climate. You'd probably make more money doing it.
Have your SIL come in and do training and work long enough to qualify for STD. You can ride that out for 2-3 years if you are good and find another real job with a real company. Maybe double dip on the pay. SF is a death trap and the worst kind of worst. It's like being with a girlfriend that is just stringing you along until she finds someone a little better looking, drives a nicer car, better job and more money. She will use you for the wedding she needs to attend and her cousins graduation...she will get the number of the hot groomsmen when you are off in the buffet line!
I would recommend it for about a year while she actively determines what she wants to do long term.
I do not have any enemies but if I had even one, I would not recommend this job to even an enemy.
If she is very intelligent, likes to think 'outside the box', is a 'problem solver', and likes to think critically, then I'd say absolutely not. If she does not fall into any of those categories, then I'd still say no.
You must really not like your SIL if you would even consider suggesting she work at SF.
Would never do that to family, friends, acquaintances, people I despise. Don't do it.
If she has a family and finances are lean, I would think any job she can get that pays decent would be a good fit.
If you can handle being tracked and surveilled and micromanaged and tested like a robot and in high school. Yes
Just have her work during the training and quit.
There has never been a better time to work for SF