Guardian Life Insurance Company Employer Reviews

Great look into the day to day activities of the treasury environment.

not a good company to work for. Management micromanages. Quality Control seems like Internal Affairs. Expectations are unrealistic and cannot be met. Management continues to impose unrealistic procedures and production / quality measurements. Employees are often set up to fail.

Guardian is all about integrity and great data management!

Very structured company. Coworkers and management helpful.
Busy work day from start to finish.

A typical day involves taking requests for proposals from insurance brokers and building employee benefits proposals from the requests in terms of Guardian's product lines. The hardest part of this job is trying to decipher what the request is for in terms of Guardian's products. The sales aspect of the position plays a part when you use the rating – more... tools to build the proposal, which are based off sales rep preferences in order to help them make a sale.

Our management focus was mainly on production and quality. If you didn't meet your numbers, it was very hard to make in Guardian's SUREquoute department. My co-workers were all young, recent college grads. – less

Fast pace call center that allowed me to learn about medical insurance and needs of customers.

Good place to work. Co workers and management where very nice I liked the training. You wont be thrown to the wolves without proper preparation.

There is a lot to learn at Guardian. Not just in one department but throughout the company as a whole. Human Resources department is always expanding and there opportunity to coross train, you just have to take the initiative to do so.

Each day was always busy. Reviewing applications, following up with issues, assisting co-workers. The best part was learning something new everyday.

Review, analyze, rate and prepare Life, Disability, Dental and Vision proposals for Brokers and Policy holders. Assist the Sales Representative in the sales process to provide innovative solutions for employers benefit packages made available to their employees. Maintaining extensive Broker and Policy holder relationships. Collect and process new business – more... paperwork for submission to Case Installation. Negotiate with Underwriting and Brokers in the sales process. I learned many valuable customer service skills, both internally and externally. Practiced Underwriting negotiations, customer relations and analytical skills. Maintained strong co-worker relationships and helped maintain our strong teamwork atmosphere. The most enjoyable part of my job at Guardian was assisting in closing the sale with groups and providing them with excellent service. – less

Guardian does not value education well when it comes to compensation.

I loved working here. Great people, fun environment, easy work. LOTS of advancement opportunities.

Guardian is a great company that provides you with resources to begin your book of business. There are lots of opportunities for training as well.

Responsibilities:
• Requirement gathering for enhancement...
• Developed User Interface with Struts1.2 Framework using MVC Architecture.
• Used Struts Validates for client side validation
• Extensively made use of Struts and JSP Tag library.
• Developed the asynchronous AJAX based rich client to meet the user requirements.
• Developing middleware components – more... using EJB (Session Beans).
• Used RMI to communication between remote objects.
• Developed Reports system using XML, DOM, SAX, and XSLT.
• Developed and executed JUnit test scripts.
• Developing Service Locator Patterns to lookup different services.
• Developing the Business Delegate Pattern to find the lookup and access details of the EJB architecture.
• Build environment using Ant and version control system using PVCS. – less

I have worked for Guardian for over 28 years in four different cities. I am a wholeseller of employee benefits. I also have managed three offices overlooking both sales and support staff.

Guardian Life is the best insurance company in jamaica. The staff and management is work together as a team. A typical day at work is productive and fun. Its always a pleasure to look forward to going to work.

Opportunity to get involved in a variety of projects, but not the most stimulating culture or environment. Financially stable, hasn't experienced mass layoffs like other financial and health insurance companies. Benefits package and vacation time not very competitive.

I worked hard and my hard work paid off. Guardian promoted from within the company so I was able to move into some great positions in the Underwriting area.

I learned coworkers can be jealous if you are in demand by clients, therefore you will be the first to be laid off!.

I was given a lot of responsibilty and autonomy to get the job done - which I liked. I had a great manager, although not so fun when stressed, but a good guy nonetheless.

I did a lot of content development, marketing, communications, and promotions for the company. I was even able to develop commuications on behalf of a very senior manager, and partner – more... with internal and external business partners to drive marketing initiatives. – less