Overall, a good place to begin a career - Customer Service Specialist Unum Employee Review

4.0
Sep 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Wonderful management, wonderful people, great work/life balance, amazing benefits, awesome training, yummy cafeteria food! Management really looks to promote you - they want you to be moving up to another position after a year and a half - sooner if you prove yourself. If you work hard, you will be rewarded. Not to mention, the free Disney trip for outstanding workers is an amazing incentive to work towards.

Cons

Call Center is isolating (I barely ever got to talk with my co-workers) and I felt very much alone, even though teamwork is emphasized. VERY structured - points are counted against you if you go to the bathroom not on your scheduled break time. I was also encouraged to use my personal break times for work - which is not right. You begin to feel like quality is always breathing down your neck and telling you what you have done wrong on your calls. The new system/scale for grading is extremely harsh. Extremely busy. I took probably around 200 calls a day - the phones are always ringing off the hook. This job is not for the faint of heart. It is repetitive, yes, but can be soul crushing. Most people do not decide to stay in the call center - it's viewed more as a stepping stone to a better position.

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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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