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Adjuster Sign-Up Instructions
Thank you for your interest in
Advanced Adjusting. Each of the underlined terms is hyperlinked to a section
below. Maintaining our quality
working environment requires us to carefully select every individual we send
into the field.
So here’s what we expect from you:
1.
A “Profile Update”. Understanding how we use the profile updates may help you complete your profile more accurately.
2.
A Current Resume. Before you upload your resume, you
might want to glance at what we’re looking for in a resume.
3.
A Sample Estimate. Before you submit a sample estimate,
please be sure you understand the requirements for sample estimates.
This information needs to be
submitted to us within our Adjuster Maintenance Area. Click below to create
a new account.
After we receive all three
parts of you application, your records will be evaluated. Within two weeks we will contact you again. You will either receive
an email encouraging you to keep your profile up-to-date in the event that a
position becomes available in the future, or you will receive a phone call to
arrange a telephone interview. Following the telephone interview your licenses
will be verified and the necessary paperwork will be completed to officially
add you to our roster.
How We Use the Profile Updates
Our claim to the carriers is that,
“We have the very best adjusters.” A large part of delivering on that promise
is assigning specialized claims to adjusters who are experts in the given
field. If Advanced Adjusting has a commercial fire claim, we’re going to assign
that claim to the adjuster in the area with the most commercial fire
experience. The profile updates allow us to scan our database not just for
adjusters in the area, but more specifically for experienced commercial fire
adjusters in the area. When you update your profile you’re not only informing
us of your experience, you’re also helping yourself by increasing your chances
of being assigned claims in your area of expertise. What other company can
offer that?
What We’re
Looking for in a Resume
The main thing we’d like to see in your resume is your work experience
related to insurance adjusting. We’d like to know which positions you’ve held in insurance
related industries, and a brief description of the work you managed in each.
We’d like to know which estimating software you are familiar with and how many
claims you’ve written using each. We’d like to know which companies you’ve
worked daily claims with and which companies you’ve deployed with for
catastrophe work. We like to know where your expertise lies in insurance
adjusting. Please feel free to mention other non-insurance related experiences
that you have, but please provide the bulk of the detail regarding experiences
you have had related to the insurance adjusting industry.
Requirements for Sample
Estimates
The reason we request a sample
estimate from a prospective adjuster is two-fold. First, we want to see that
the adjuster has a sound knowledge of the construction techniques necessary to
repair a damaged property. And second, we want to see that the adjuster can
follow the instructions given and turn in the estimate precisely in the form
requested. Feel free to use an estimate that you have previously completed as a
sample estimate, please just take the time to replace the insured’s information
with fictitious names, numbers, ect.
If you are experienced in using
Xactimate, the sample estimate should be completed with Xactimate. (If you cannot
use Xactimate, please submit your sample estimate in the software you are most
familiar with. The sample should be complete with photos and submitted by email
in the form of a .PDF file to roster@advadj.com. The subject line of the email
should read, “Sample Estimate”.) Xactimate estimates should be submitted as a single .PDF file. The
estimate should include an “Activity Report”, followed by “General Loss
Report”, followed by the Xactimate Estimate complete with compressed resolution
photos, eight-per-page.
If you do not have a sample estimate
that you are able to submit, we have created a test estimate that you can
download and complete using the free demo version of Xactimate. This test
estimate is available by logging on and looking under the, “Newsletters and
Documents” tab. From there you can view the “Test Estimate” and save it to your
compute
Additional
information available on our FAQ page.
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