Great career place, but tough to advance - Financial Benefits Specialist Unum Employee Review

4.0
Nov 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits! Which make sense, since their motto is "better benefits at work". As you can read in other reviews, the benefits are really what make it a great place to work. Also, the people overall are a pleasure to work with. As with any workplace, there are your typical negative nancy's, chatty cathy's, and other typical PITA employees, but overall, most folks walk around with smiles on their faces.

Cons

Unless you are excellent at kissing-bottom, good luck getting anywhere. I was not good at puckering up and it proved to keep me in the same position. If you don't know certain people, you will not advance.

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Cons

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Cons

Overworked like crazy, I was hired a few months ago but am already looking for something else, due to the stress and constant feeling of “wow finally i think im starting to get this” all to be reminded when submitting your tasks for mentor review you either did it right or have to redo the whole entire thing from scratch that is if your mentor is even available. Depending on your mentor as well that can really damper your experience and overall understanding. Training could have been done a lot better initially with constant exposure to different task types and different material. For example Medical certifications could have been shown over and over again for us to understand if it’s complete, incomplete and what significant health condition it would be for coding. With other team members also leaving as training ended and senior team members leaving once we got assigned the writing was on the wall. I really wanted to give Unum a shot and really try to see myself here, maybe it’s just the position of leave specialist or maybe all the jobs are the same, still can’t help but wonder if another position would’ve suited me better if they allowed role transfers sooner instead of waiting a minimum full year.

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