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03-04-2009, 08:53 PM
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Airics the Airbrush Tattoo Artist
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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Originally Posted by LewLew
Cleveland has a very high concentration of insurance companies. You should be fine. Progressive's corp headquarters is there in Mayfield Heights as well.
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Getting hired by Progressive is really difficult if you are above 35.... I just interviewed with them... Passed all the tests.. 3 interviews.. and then was told i was Over qualified so no job...
oh.. and it was a inside sales rep position.. i have 23+ yrs experience customer service 15+ managerial and supervisory and college degree in business mgmt...
this was all for a $10hr job |
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03-04-2009, 08:54 PM
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Airics the Airbrush Tattoo Artist
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LewLew
Cleveland has a very high concentration of insurance companies. You should be fine. Progressive's corp headquarters is there in Mayfield Heights as well.
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Most of the positions (not progressive) are commission based only... |
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03-05-2009, 08:30 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Shaker
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Originally Posted by airics
Getting hired by Progressive is really difficult if you are above 35.... I just interviewed with them... Passed all the tests.. 3 interviews.. and then was told i was Over qualified so no job...
oh.. and it was a inside sales rep position.. i have 23+ yrs experience customer service 15+ managerial and supervisory and college degree in business mgmt...
this was all for a $10hr job
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Airics, you are an riddle wrapped in an paradox. I thought you were moving to Vegas? Yet, you are interviewing here?
Do tell... |
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03-05-2009, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Cleveland
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Originally Posted by Minervah
Sorry I should have more specific. I have worked for many years in the insurance industry. I was a group health insurance claims examiner. Also I have drafted policies and done data entry for them. My experience is pretty much admin and clerical.
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We do have some larger health insurance companies here. Medical Mutual is based here and Kaiser Permanente has a large presence here as well. |
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03-05-2009, 01:30 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Portland OR
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Originally Posted by Boffo
We do have some larger health insurance companies here. Medical Mutual is based here and Kaiser Permanente has a large presence here as well.
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I have heard that Kaiser is good to work for, at least where I live. I am not in the sales end of insurance. I have been a health claims aduster, a contract writer and a data entry person. My jobs have always been inside the office in these administrative or clerical capacity. I don't want to be in sales. I also have a paralegal degree but have never been able to use it.
The more insurance companies the better my chances so to hear there are quite a few in Cleveland is good news. Regarding age discrimination as another poster mentioned I think this is especially true for people in sales. All the sales people in my present insurance company are young. |
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03-05-2009, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Minervah
Cleveland is on my list of places to relocate in two years. I don't mind the cold winters; what I am mostly concerned about is the job situation. Is it very bad there?
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Where are you coming from and why Cleveland? |
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03-05-2009, 04:10 PM
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Location: Portland OR
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I am now living in Portland OR. The job situation is very bad right now but it is never very good even in the best of times. I want to semi-retire in a few years and I want to move to a place where my dollar will got further. The cost of living here is extremely high.
Those are my main reasons. The rest is that I moved here from Chicago 30 years ago and the changes I have seen in this town make it no longer the place I used to like to live in. It's just not the town for me any longer.
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03-05-2009, 05:08 PM
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Airics the Airbrush Tattoo Artist
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Originally Posted by AndyF667
Airics, you are an riddle wrapped in an paradox. I thought you were moving to Vegas? Yet, you are interviewing here?
Do tell...
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the progressive interview was a job to temporarily suppliment my income.. i am interviewing both here and in vegas.. i cant leave until the end of june since my lease at my business expires then |
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03-05-2009, 05:10 PM
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Airics the Airbrush Tattoo Artist
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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the interviews in vegas are for permanent positions since the cost of living is lower there, especially with no city or state taxes.
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03-06-2009, 01:04 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by Minervah
I am now living in Portland OR. The job situation is very bad right now but it is never very good even in the best of times. I want to semi-retire in a few years and I want to move to a place where my dollar will got further. The cost of living here is extremely high.
Those are my main reasons. The rest is that I moved here from Chicago 30 years ago and the changes I have seen in this town make it no longer the place I used to like to live in. It's just not the town for me any longer.
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I think Cleveland is a great town and has a lot to offer. I am living in so. Cal right now. I want to get back and hope some day I can.
The weather may be cold in Cleveland, but the people are warm. Really there is alot to do there and there is alot of beauty. This city is so under rated. |
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