Geico to add about 520 workers in Macon this year
By Linda S. Morris, The Macon Telegraph | |
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Automobile insurance company
"It's about 10 percent growth for our workforce here," said
The company is looking to fill a variety of positions, including:
-- Entry-level positions in sales, customer service, claims, emergency roadside service, glass claims and salvage total loss.
-- Positions for college graduates in liability claims customer service positions and the management development program, one of
But even college graduate jobs are entry level, Rayburn said.
The annual salary range for the new jobs is
"Not only do they employ a lot of people, but they are great corporate citizens also," he said. "I think the fact they continue to add employees here is a tribute to their employees that they have now and the workforce base here in the
Rayburn said the reason the company needs more people is pretty simple: growth.
"We are the fastest growing automobile insurance carrier in the country for the 10th consecutive year," he said. "And we need more people."
While the entire company is growing, the
"We handle emergency road service and things similar to that (in
Most of the company's new hires likely will be people who already have had two or three jobs, he said.
"Practically everyone has work experience," he said. "But they say, 'I am looking for more benefits, I need a growing national company. I need more.' Those are the people who come to us."
Last year, nearly a fourth of
"So in addition to keeping up with growth, we also need to bring on new associates to step into those roles," he said.
The company already has started the hiring process for the new workers and makes use of nearly every method possible to find them.
"We're everywhere," Rayburn said. "We're on every electronic job board we can get our hands on. We advertise in the newspaper. We advertise in the movie theater. We have billboards. We're on Monster.com. We're on Indeed.com. When you are trying to add the number of people we are, you are doing everything you can."
Someone with
"Universities don't teach insurance operations, rarely, so we invest a lot in training our people in any job they are going to do," Rayburn said. "So even a college graduate is going to get extensive training. But there are management development programs that a person needs a degree or some college education to qualify for. ... High school or equivalent is a baseline. Not everyone has to have a college degree. The majority of what we hire doesn't."
"We sell service, and we are looking for great personalities," Rayburn said.
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