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This site is a good place to start. Read all the post and you will see a better picture of the long road ahead of you. Good luck.... is this a joke ?

If your newly licensed, looking for work, the best place to start is a large cat. Take a job at Wal-Mart until that happens or better still, work as a roofer, carpenter, anywhere in construction. Newly licensed adjusters with no construction experience don't have much of a chance. I am not trying to discourage you but look at it from the other side. If you're a claims company using daily adjusters, or a TPA or insurance company looking for staff adjusters, and there hasn't been a cat in over eighteen months, then there are tons of experienced adjusters who will do your work. 99% of the time, the only way to break in to this business is with cat work, and it take a big one to allow newly licensed adjusters to get work. If you are still determined to do this and not wait for a cat, then email as many claims companies as you can find, send them your resume' and compose the best cover letter of your life expaining that you will do whatever it takes to get into this business. If you get some positive responses, then go to those companies for a face to face even if you have to drive over several states. Continue to make contact with them or they will soon forget you. You have to realize that they have received a lot of resume's from newly licensed people. Often, they won't even file those. So the face to face meeting is your advantage. Try to get on their cat roster. Offer to work as an assistant to some of their experienced adjusters for little or no pay. Show them you are willing to learn. If your lucky, there will be several hurricanes this year that stretch adjuster availability. Luck is what it really takes but hard work will help offset that needed component. Good luck!

William,

 

Good questions, and good answers so far.  But since, in the past, questions like yours have led to the sort of responses that reflect badly on the catadjusting community, getting started posts are only allowed in the community forums, not catastrophe central.  You are welcome to ask your questions there.  I am locking this thread.