Insurance agents, this is your help website.
Each topic page on our website is a mini training experience.
Click on your topic of interest using the nav bar on left side of page
What is the edge that Experienced insurance recruiters have that makes them successful? This article will discuss some of the mistakes made by most rookie or inexperienced recruiters.
If you don't plan to take the 5 minutes to read through this mini training article, you already are making one of the biggest mistakes. Knowledge is power, and you only get knowledge from some one who has walked the walk.
Are you an insurance agent, agency manager or a life insurance
general agent that wants to start building your own life insurance
agency. I am sure you keep asking yourself. Where do I start, and how do I recruit? What type of insurance agent recruiting system should I be using?
Or maybe you are already an agency manager trying to
build a successful insurance agency and are having some recruiting and retention problems. Not as easy as you thought it might be.
Do you build your own agents or do you try to hire from outside? Hiring agents from from other companies result in "what i call no loyalty agents". Additionally, agents hired from other companies may create problems within the ranks. They have a tenancy to try and change your system.
However, if you are creating a insurance agent broker network and want that type of a challenge that comes with that type of system, go for it.
I tried it both ways, and trust me, hiring new fresh people and training them the way you want allows you much more control and a stronger loyalty base.
Get your NEW Recruiting for Dummies e-book today. An introduction to recruiting and agency building. An absolute must for agents thinking about, or just starting to recruit.
So, if you are an agency manager and would like some third party recruiting help, copy and paste this link "An-insurance agents-career-opportunity" and send it in an e-mail to any new prospective agents you are interviewing. it will help both you and the new agent. This could be your first step of your insurance agent recruiting system. When it comes to recruiting new insurance agents, we need all the help we can get.
Not such an easy task.
recruiting new insurance agents, which is the hiring and
training of new insurance agents to work for you, sounds exciting. But
the reality is, where do I get good people to hire. How do I go about
doing this? Oh yes, and then there are the
hours
and hours needed to train a new agent.
Recruiting
tip: Don't be wasting your valuable time on trying to make an
insurance agent out of an unqualified recruit.
Insurance-recruiters click here to watch this short recruiting video
6 Free Recruiting Tips
Click here to receive six of the most critical recruiting tips needed to recruit and build a successful insurance agency.
First off, You need
to have a systematic check list that you will follow. if you
do not have one, then you need to make one up. it is a list of items to
help you make sure you cover all the key areas in the recruiting
process and do it in a systematic order. Over time, i added and
subtracted and revised my insurance recruiters check list.
Secondly, i had a "Welcome to our Team" booklet i personally made up, that i would hand out to the person if i decided to move forward with them. it gave that person a
list of things that they could expect from me
and
a list of things that I expected of them.
Note: both of these are separate modules included in our agency building manual
So where do you get names?
Who are the best people to recruit?
I have a separate insurance recruiters topic pages on this subject. (see below)
As a footnote, I never had any success with people under 25, single
people, or people going through a divorce or any other personal crisis.
I will go through the reasons why in a separate article called insurance recruiting. Over
time, and through past
experience, I just never even started an interview with them.
Learn how to use opportunity meetings to simplify your recruiting
problems and maximize your recruiting numbers, while saving you valuable time.
Running the recruiting interview
As an insurance recruiter, you must have a recruiting presentation that is presented in an orderly manner. This is where my check list helped.
When I started my agent recruiting process with a new candidate, the first and most important part of my initial interview was what I called a personal observation interview. Here is where I decided to move ahead with this person or not, and here is a general overview of what I was looking for.
for the committed agency builder or recruiter
my complete recruiting and agency building system
Insurance Recruiting and Agency Building Manual
also available in separate modules
pick the module/s that fit your situation.
Most insurance recruiters are in to much of a hurry to sign a new person up. What happens is they finally have a live breathing person that is really sitting down with them, to talk about an insurance career and this person says "I will give it a try". Now they do everything in haste.
They start
selling all the positives to this
person, telling them all the
reasons this person should come into the insurance business,
and make all kind of
promises, and
then try to get the person fired up to sign a contract. They are using
their selling skills to sell this person on signing up and committing
to come to work that day.
This is the wrong approach,
because most inexperienced insurance
recruiters do all the selling,
when
they should be doing the buying.
Stop
right here.. Take a deep breath. You are saying "I should not be
doing the selling." Then how do I hire anybody?
After I completed the personal observation part of the interview, I decide at that time whether I want to move on with this person or not.
Here is where many insurance recruiters make their biggest mistake.
They end up hiring an unqualified person and then spend endless hours
training this person, trying to make them into something they can not
be. (Wasted Time) Remember time is money. (Read Insurance recruiting
-103)
This is where the rubber meets the road. Do you have the guts to
terminate an interview if it does not meet all the positives.
"Mr/Mrs. XXXXX, I want to thank you for coming in. I will get back to
you in the next week or so after I complete the rest of my recruiting
interviews. (Whether you have any more or not.)
I would then send them a "Thank You note for coming in, saying we are
not interested at this time, but will keep your name in our file."
However, If this person passed my personal observation
test, we then moved on to the next
recruiting step,
Insurance Recruiting -102.
Determine if you have a Recruit!
Insurance
Recruiting -103. Profiling Insurance Recruits?
Insurance
Recruiting -104 Locating Insurance Recruits.
Best time of year to recruit How to eat an elephant ?
Using opportunity meetings to recruit The best system to use to recruit
Insurance Recruiting Ideas More tips on recruiting
Build a Plan to recruit insurance agents. Article 1 in a 3 part series.
Insurance recruiters. Article 2, building a detailed plan of action
Best time of year to Recruit. Kick off new year with a bang.
Get detailed hiring and interview tips from a site built by a colleague of mine.
1. How to Hire Right Every Time?
2. Hiring Tips and Management Interview
Questions?
Use these Practical tips for creating
the best interview questions
on how to conduct an interview and how
to interview for the right fit.
Click here to Learn more from Suzie
Click here for Free Insurance Industry Resources
then click on the financial services link and the insurance link
I hope this insurance recruiters page will give you some ideas on the challenges that come with recruiting and agency building. You can also use our free insurance forum to ask recruiting questions.
Monthly Newsletter Free Please add me to your e-mail list so I can receive all new updates on selling and recruiting. See all back issues |
Insurance Forum Get answers |
Follow Us
Our most popular Self Help e-books Exclusive to our readers |
Looking for proven and tested concepts. View our Agency Building Manual. |
More free resources and helpful selling tools |
New! Comments
Have your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below.