There’s No Place Like Home (Office)
Follow the yellow brick road … or the beautifully paved drive leading to Central Mutual Insurance Company headquarters. Working in customer service, I get a lot of phone calls that include questions...
View ArticleStable + Rewarding + Limitless = Insurance
If you are in the insurance industry and are like me, you never thought of it as a career while growing up, but have found it to be incredibly rewarding. While those of us in the industry can...
View ArticleFrom Pharmacy School to Insurance Programmer
If someone would have told me I would be working for an insurance company after graduating from college, I probably would have said they were crazy. After all, why would a pharmacist work for an...
View ArticleMy Career Destination through the World of Insurance
Roy Goodman once said, “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” Even though my current career looks very different from what I had envisioned, life had other plans that have...
View ArticleInsurance: A Career of Helping Others
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” A common question we all heard as children but the response was probably never “an insurance agent,” or “a claims adjuster,” or “an underwriter.” However,...
View ArticleAnswering the Call through Customer Service
Shortly after finishing my undergraduate studies, my husband and I moved back to my hometown where I was working as a server at a local restaurant. Though I had just started graduate school, I was...
View ArticleA Career Path You’ll Wish You Chose Sooner
When I first applied at Central, I had been looking for a stable job at a grounded and experienced company. While the job market can be somewhat unpredictable with positions available in so many...
View ArticleChanging the Stigma of Insurance
Attend elementary school, graduate high school, go to college and get a degree, and then head out into the workforce; the standard career path. The problem is that model and expectation does not fit...
View ArticleMoving Faster than the Speed of Fraud
When it comes to insurance, conversations about fraud are never far behind. While fraud is an unfortunate reality of the insurance business -- costing the industry up to $50 billion each year -- it’s...
View ArticleDwelling Coverage vs Market Value: What’s the Difference?
With home values significantly rising across the country over the past few years, it is important to understand the difference between dwelling value and market value when it comes to home insurance....
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