Vertin Funeral Homes Make a Difficult Profession Even Harder
Pros
As a corporate funeral chain, its many locations do a good job at providing continuing education opportunities for its employees. In addition, an employee could, theoretically, advance into the corporate management team or become a full or partial owner of one of the many homes in their region.
Cons
They are large enough that there's a good chance, in the upper-Midwest, that you are applying to one of their firms. The bad news is that they are large enough to have created their own bubble. This means poor base pay and hard to reach, commission based bonuses (if you qualify for them at all) that make for stagnant wages and unpredictable paychecks. Not surprisingly, they also seem to have a hard time filling positions which translates into heavy workloads (even for funeral service standards).