Very Steep Learning Curve. - Underwriter Thrivent Employee Review

2.0
22 Feb 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great organization with a volunteer spirit. Not-for-profit organization that supports charitable and volunteer giving. Central office located in an excellent part of the country with good community in Appleton, WI.

Cons

Non-competitive salary. A VERY steep learning curve....terminated after 4 months with company, despite needing to learn an antiquated system. Mentors assigned to me needed to regularly refer to operations manual to operate their own system. After only 60 days, was reassigned due to poor volume of output, then reassigned again 30 days later to a new system. Terminated one month later. 12 years of experience in the industry was flushed and a black spot put on my resume for a company that really needed to demonstrate more patience with the learning process involved with their systems and method of underwriting. This very budget-restricted operation looking to expand to entire Christian market will finditself quickly overwhelmed with volume due to the systems in place, unless they overhaul their entire operation structure and invest more in operations. Not nearly ready for this imminent expansion plan.

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