Underwriting

Do you have an eye for detail and a knack for problem solving? As an underwriting intern, you’ll analyze data to determine risk.

Internship program

During the 12-week underwriting internship program, you’ll learn who or what should be covered under an insurance policy and how much to charge for the policy. You’ll be part of the team that ensures Mutual of Omaha balances risk and profitability, sales goals and customer needs.

In your underwriting internship, you’ll:

Analyze data related to the risk being underwritten for small new business cases
Conduct research to secure additional data you need to make determinations on benefits and rates
Communicate with sales about underwriting requirements and procedures

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Life as an underwriting intern

In your internship, you’ll be a part of an underwriting team where you’ll job shadow team members to learn underwriting cases. You’ll participate in trainings to learn the ins and outs of underwriting and will have mentors guiding you along the way. Each day, you’ll learn new tips of the trade, preparing you for a career in underwriting. Watch the video to hear more from an underwriting intern.

Video Transcript

Hi, my name is Emily and I'm a current intern at Mutual of Omaha in the underwriting department. Throughout the summer, I was placed with a specific team and I really got to know the management and all of my coworkers on that team specifically, I was able to job shadow them, meet with them one-on-one.

We really focused at the beginning of the summer on training, so we were with the management and our mentors, learning all of the moving parts, um, of underwriting. And then throughout the summer we were also able to job shadow our mentors and they kind of just gave us insight on what their day-to-day looks like, working through some cases. And then towards the end of the summer, we were able to do some hands-on work ourselves.

And I was able to contribute to that team and really feel like I was a part of the work that they were doing in underwriting. There's really no stop to the learning. Um, you're learning new things every single day with the cases that you're working.

Risk assessment, I've learned a lot, um, in that area as well. And then lastly, just learning to be coachable when you are given a mentor and being able to reach out to them whenever just learning to take their advice in and apply it is something that I've really, um, benefited from.

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