What are the pros/cons of working for Aflac?
I work for one of the large insurance companies, but have never worked for Aflac — so take this as hearsay. I know someone else who works with me who did the Aflac thing, and what I was told was that it is basically a “let’s hire as many people as possible, and maybe we’ll get lucky with 1 or 2” type of situation. She advised me that she was given almost no training whatsoever. She did say, quote “It’s not a bad job…” Not exactly the way I’d want someone to describe my future job. Here’s my advise: Allstate, State Farm, Shelter, (etc.) are all looking for agent staff in all markets. You’re better of going for a position that is less based on sales, and more based on stable production. On the flip side, most of the agents with these companies look for people with at least a small amount of actual insurance experience. Do you already have insurance with one of these companies mentioned above? If so, get your insurance licenses and then contact your agent. Ask him/her about how to get
I work for one of the large insurance companies, but have never worked for Aflac — so take this as hearsay. I know someone else who works with me who did the Aflac thing, and what I was told was that it is basically a “let’s hire as many people as possible, and maybe we’ll get lucky with 1 or 2” type of situation. She advised me that she was given almost no training whatsoever. I work downstais from a Liberty Mutual penguin farm in Massachusetts. Every week, they get a busload of fresh new graduates, buy them nice suits, feed them buffet food, and catapult them against the wall point-blank to see who sticks. Every so often, one of them will sit with me and my co-workers, looking out-of-place and asking for a little career advice. They never seem to be in it because they love sales or particularly care about insurance, but more because they wanted to be saved from the vagaries of post-graduate unemployment or because one of their ex-frat buddies talked them into it. Invariably, we neve
