Hi, this is Andrew Price with Pilot Catastrophe Services and you are watching a Jester TV. In this video, what will the hiring managers at one of the biggest IA firms in the US be looking for on your resume? Whether you're new or experienced. Plus, learn more about the hiring process at pilot catastrophe, including whether or not pilot has an experience requirement for new adjusters. Starting now. This is a Jester TV. Hey, it's Matt here with a Jester TV. For the best tips and tools for getting on the first call list as a cat property independent adjuster, subscribe now. Click on the bell notification and you'll be on your way. And a special thanks to Sean from Facebook who says, I've just been through a lot to try to figure out how to get into this and I didn't give up. Very close to giving up. Anyway, I just got deployed with pilot. You know, pilots are a place that I think a lot of people start in this career. I've started to figure that out and I know why. They're a really good company. They're very helpful. They're training is good. They want you to succeed. It is not easy to go from nothing. No knowledge, no experience, maybe no money and push on this and get in and get hired and get deployed inside or out. It's extremely difficult. So I trust your information and it's helped me quite a bit and I just want to tell you appreciate that and I'm off to work for pilots. Listen Sean, I'm so happy to be of help and I'm very interested to see how you progress in your career. So pilot catastrophe is kind of the granddaddy of IA firms in a way. Many, if not most, IA's got their start on a pilot storm, myself included. In this video, Andrew Price, a veteran adjuster and senior recruiter at pilot, talks about the most important things pilot looks for on an adjuster's resume as well as how they handle new adjusters applying to get on their roster. And here's Andrew. My name is Andrew Price and I work for pilot catastrophe services based out of Mobile, Alabama. We are an independent adjusting firm that handles claims all over the United States for property, auto, inland marine, commercial, variety of options for people that are looking to work as an adjuster on the independent side obviously. I've been with pilot for 15 years. I've started in 2004 as a field adjuster. I've done just about everything. On the property side you can do. I've been a field adjuster, a desk adjuster, a team lead, a trainer, a manager. And specifically I was asked a couple of years ago to come to the recruiting site because not only did we want to recruit folks to our roster that are interested, we also want to engage our own people on the roster to make sure that we are making them aware of everything that pilot has to offer. And so essentially we do that when people apply through live webinars that we handle usually through one of our senior recruiters most of the time it's me. Together, everybody a good snapshot of what they get by deciding if pilot is the right fit for them. You know, people want to know how to get deployed licensing and certification. 34 states require you to have a license as an adjuster as either property or auto. And the more license you should have the more deployed will you become? How helpful is it for somebody to have me? Okay, we'll get back to the video in just a second, but I wanted to let you know about my new free master class. Advanced time management how to close more claims in less time. When I first got started as an adjuster way back before they invented the wheel. I got exactimate training, I got the scoping training and the and the construction training. And when I went to adjust your school back then this was how the instructor taught us about our scheduling and time management. He said, most importantly, you have to have a good time management. Okay, now we're going to talk about windows. It was totally right, of course, time management is the most important thing. I don't know, maybe you tell me how to do it. In spite of doing everything I could to prepare to go on my first cat deployment, I had zero time management skill. And I spent a lot of money on that course. So let's talk about time management. Click the link where you're watching this video below for dates and times of this free live master class and get signed up. I hope to see you there. It's not something that we specifically look for on a resume. Honestly, what we're going to do is evaluate whether or not you can perform the job functions as outlined. You want to be a field adjuster. The expectation is that you're going to be well versed and exactimate. The level of certification is really going to become important as to the severity of the damage the claims you're looking at. You know, if you're looking at a total loss or almost total loss in slide L Louisiana after Hurricane Trana, it's going to require a significant level of experience more than working claims in Midland, Texas for hail, where you have every roof is a 412 pitch with 20 square roof. Almost everybody with limited or no experience, we're going to request that you come through a training class so we can assess where they are and evaluate them and help rate them ready for deployment. It's kind of how we look at that. And then of course what we're going to look at first are licensing certification. That's ultimately what's going to open the most doors for you. At pilot you have to have a license to be eligible for our pilot roster. If you want to be inspectors on demand or part of our CMS team, which is a more administrative support, a license is not required. Your experience level determines your path at pilot. The more experienced adjusters are going to go one direction, those with limited no experience are going to have a little bit different path that's going to require a little more training and evaluation before we can deploy some of it. As much I think training that you can get that will help prepare you as a property adjuster for things like construction or if you're an auto-adjuster auto repair. The estimating systems like exactimate version 28 specifically is what we're on right now. If you're looking at auto-text or Mitchell or CCC1 as an auto-adjuster, that's what's going to help prepare them. Our whole goal is to help people be successful. Question of the day, how would you explain an actual cash value settlement to an insured? Assume that the insured knows nothing about policy. Answer in the comments where you're watching this video. 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