13 Benefits Consultant Reviews
Benefits Consultants give their job an average rating of 3.9 out of 5.0. The Benefits Consultants happiest with their jobs are employed by Philips Electronics with an average rating of 2.9.
Submit a ReviewWhat do you like about working at Philips Electronics?
"The members on my team are a pleaure to work with. It's a challenging environment and provides an opportunity to grow my knowledge of Benefits."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Not at this time. It is a challenging but rewarding environment."
What don't you like about working at Philips Electronics?
"The current management in the Compensation and Benefits teams are uninformed and act more as a roadblock to improving the teams."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"They need to have a better understanding of the time it takes to do the work that their team is completing and to manage those work loads better."
Benefits Consultant Career Rating Comparison
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"EDS, now HP is a great employer that upholds professionalism to the highest."
What do you like about working at Electronic Data Systems?
"What I loved the most about working with EDS was assisting those who were grieving and encouraging them as I helped them to receive their beneficiary claims."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I would advise others to be enthusiastic with a can-do attitude."
What don't you like about working at Electronic Data Systems?
"The most discouraging portion of working at EDS was feeling so much sympathy for those who had just lost a loved one."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I would suggest management to continue to acknowledge and perfect the value of their employees."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"DO NOT WORK for AETNA"
What do you like about working at Aetna?
"Having a paycheck, as I was desperate for any job."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Do not accept an offer of employment unless you are destitute and desperate. Poor pay and health benefits even though they are a health insurance company. High Stress Job and Aetna will treat you poorly. Try applying with the Federal or State Government. Better pay and health benefits."
What don't you like about working at Aetna?
"Employees are not treated with respect and the health benefits are poor and expensive."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Clean House!! Learn communication skills if you lack them. Show appreciation to your Employees."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"Aetna is a Poor Place to Work and NOT recommended"
What do you like about working at Aetna?
"I loved working at Aetna at one time, however, that was under Mother Aetna when they cared about you as a person not as a number that can easily be replaced."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Unfortunately, they will turn you into a number. I know, I worked there for 14 years and was terminated. They do not care nor appreciate you or how much you have done for them, as they always want more. They come across as pleasant and a great place to work, but in reality, they just want another body to fill the seat so that management can please the shareholders. If you decide to accept employment with them, Good luck. You will need it!!"
What don't you like about working at Aetna?
"Gave them 14 years of my life just to be released. Began as a processor and began climbing the ladder after 5 or 6 years in a rut position. I was 52 when terminated from my position and also believed that I would retire from the company due to my contributions and reviews. I was even nationally recognized internally, the same year I was released. The recognition was for providing Outstanding Customer Service, which is what Aetna stresses. Success at last, is what they had led me to believe. Don't try to litigate against Aetna, as they have deep pockets and highly paid attorneys that will bleed you dry, as they protect themselves against any type lawsuit. Including discrimination, even though they say they are diversified. One last item that is not appreciated is the forced overtime on Saturdays."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Clear out your department, middle and upper management. Learn to communicate more with your employees and show them some actual appreciation. Look at their contributions and reward accordingly. Quit looking at your people as a number, if you continue to do so, allow them some representation such as a Union. Remember, the employees are the front line that is making the management look good, so that the Board of Directors can boast to the shareholders what a terrific job they are doing. Promote managers internally rather than through outside sources. Train your staff, if necessary, as these will make better managers, considering they have the knowledge of their department. Currently, the majority of your managers do not know how to manage properly as there are no people skills, but suppose that is what Top management wants."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"I hope I get through to someone and then this review will be great."
What do you like about working at WellCare Health Plans?
"WellCare was perhaps the best job I have ever had.They always kept me informed and up to date in compliance and the product was the, in my opinion, best in the industry. Although there were many times I felt things done were not the most efficient or best way to go about it, I had my challenges and I enjoyed working there. I am independent now as I was before going to WellCare but if that company does come back, I would take them on as a carrier and be proud to sell their product. I feel they were handed a raw deal because they were in fact the best company in the industry. I left them because I couldn't sell a product that I felt was jeopardizing the stability of my client whom I always put first and I couldn't just take an income for which I couldn't work for. Such is not in my character."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Just tell it like it is. No harts and flowers!!!!!"
What don't you like about working at WellCare Health Plans?
"There was too much ethnic tiering. Meetings that wasted a lot of time traveling to and from which could have been avoided by use of the computer. The advertisement dept. was very inefficient and the seminars were not properly planned out causing too often a no show of prospects."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I was a manager of consultants for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company many years ago and I found that building up an agent always worked better than tearing them down. Educating and helping them to grow is of utmost importance. I built a staff of 7 agents of which 5 of them I made million dollar producers in the mid sixties and that was quite an accomplishment. You don't do this by cutting them down nor do you accomplish anything by threatening their job. If they don't have the stuff to be successful, you set them free but if they have it, you nurture that and build them up. Pessimism never makes a good sales person."
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