PipelineNC Career Profile for
Insurance Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
Career Description
Investigate, analyze, and determine the extent of insurance company's liability concerning personal, casualty, or property loss or damages, and attempt to effect settlement with claimants. Correspond with or interview medical specialists, agents, witnesses, or claimants to compile information. Calculate benefit payments and approve payment of claims within a certain monetary limit. 
NC Salary
$33,330
$55,780
$80,280
What It Takes
Required Level of Education - Bachelor's Degree Related Work Experience - Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years On-Site or In-Plant Training - Up to and including 1 month On-the-Job Training - Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months 
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Sample Tasks
KnowledgeEnglish Language
Importance:
 Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Customer and Personal Service
Importance:
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Clerical
Importance:
Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
Law and Government
Importance:
Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
Mathematics
Importance:
Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
AbilitiesOral Comprehension
Importance:
The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Written Comprehension
Importance:
The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Oral Expression
Importance:
The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Deductive Reasoning
Importance:
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Inductive Reasoning
Importance:
The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Work Styles
Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations. Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. Self Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. ASSESS YOUR JOB SKILLS FOR THIS CAREER PATH
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