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Like most in the mortgage industry, Middletown-based Advanced Financial Services (AFS) didn’t have the best of years in 2008. Earnings were 50 percent off the highs of 2005 and 2006.
Imagine a job where you get to travel to France, Australia, Egypt, Japan – virtually anywhere around the globe.
Health insurance, 401(k), vacation time. Employees at Amica Insurance, of course, are entitled to these standard benefits. But Jill Andy, director of human resources, wants the company to be the standard.
One of the reasons Cox Communications keeps showing up as one of Providence Business News’ Best Places to Work is because the communications company offers employees many avenues for professional growth.
For the third consecutive year Bank Newport has been named one of Providence Business News’ Best Places to Work in Rhode Island. While it’s an honor, Director of Human Resources Wendy Kagan said, “our team works very hard at being the very best we can be.”
When asked what makes Perspectives Corporation a great place to work, some employees point to the company’s mission.
Ever since she started working at Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp. two years ago, Denise Hempe, vice president of human resources and administration, started looking at the world differently. As though seeing through new eyes Hempe now notices things she never did, and takes a few minutes to think about them.
Larry Bernard has been working at Amgen for almost seven years. But like many of the biotech innovator’s employees, the senior manager of communications continues to be wowed by the company’s generous benefits package. “The list of perks available here to employees is a long one, and we offer many things that most companies don’t,” Bernard said.
On a recent Friday, all the financial advisers, managers and other “team members” at Oceanstate Financial Services sat down for a potluck lunch at the firm’s East Providence office. And it wasn’t an isolated event – the approximately 55 Rhode Island employees get together like that every month.
When Shirley Levin took a job as a receptionist for Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd. 26 years ago she was just the fifth person to join the team. Today the certified public accounting and business-consulting firm employs 160 people, and Levin is director of administration. Times have changed, as has her role at the company, but Levin said the small- firm culture still exists, making it a place people like to come to work.
When asked about what makes Shawmut Design and Construction a great company to work for, Chris Maury, a project executive who manages the Providence office said, “First off we are 100 percent employee owned. So there is incentive for everyone here to do the best job they can – because they own it.”
It takes a certain kind of person to work at Tides Family Services Inc.
Providence-based Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP has been named one of Providence Business News’ Best Places to Work in Rhode Island for the fourth year in a row, but the firm’s focus has changed with the economic times.
Peggy Charris has worked for Children’s Friend for nine years – except for a stint at a city agency.
With a double-digit state jobless rate, employment stability has become key to peace of mind for many workers. And that stability, according to employees, is what makes The Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Co. one of the best places to work in the Ocean State.
Last year, when some employees at Shechtman Halperin Savage LLP decided they wanted to run the Caremark Downtown 5K, the company’s partners said OK.
Karl Wadensten doesn’t mind if you laugh at his company. As the owner and CEO of VIBCO Vibrators Inc. in the Richmond, he is used to people getting the wrong idea about the company’s products.
When 9/11 caught New York City (and the rest of the country) by surprise, PURVIS Systems Inc. wasted no time sending employees to the site to offer support. Technicians with the professional-engineering services firm are well-versed in the communication systems used by the New York Fire Department, because the company helped redesign and modernize the system.
When Matthew C. Reeber hears from the friends he went to law school with at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, “I feel very fortunate,” he said, to be working at the Providence law firm of Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West LLC (PLDW).
Ethical principles and calm, long-range planning are among the qualities that make Edward Jones a great place to work, according to several Jones financial advisers.
One of the things Kristen Schultz loves about her job at Falvey Cargo Underwriting Ltd., is the opportunity for advancement.
When employees of the law firm Nixon Peabody LLC explain why their company is a great place to work, their comments sound like a roster of rules for decent living.
Todd Knapp, the CEO and co-founder of the technology consultancy Envision Technology Advisors LLC, said he was honored and flattered when his employees took the initiative to nominate the company as one of the state’s best places to work – but he wasn’t surprised. It’s the kind of thing his people do every day.
Every two weeks, a financial statement is prepared for Taylor Duane Barton & Gilman LLP. A copy is shared with the law firm’s partners, executives and entire staff.
The 20 people currently employed at the Rhode Island branch of Kforce Professional Staffing know they are lucky to not only have jobs in this bleak economic environment but to be working for a firm that values employee relations.
Most people don’t associate selling insurance with having fun. But, then again, most people haven’t been to the headquarters of InsureMyTrip.com. There, on a given afternoon, you might find employees grilling steaks in the parking lot, absorbed in a Nintendo Wii game, or playing one-on-one indoor basketball.
United Way of Rhode Island employees love their jobs because they love helping people, according to some who work there.
The mortgage climate nationwide is grim. So how does a small mortgage-brokerage company attract talented advisers, keep them and manage to show a profit?
