Career Opportunities

Occupation

Insurance agent

About The Occupation

Insurance is an agreement between the insurer and the insured, where the latter pays a certain amount of money known as the premium on a monthly or annual basis. The former in turn commits that a large amount of amount of money would be paid to the insured in case of an adversity.  Insurance companies have different policies and plans. 

Domain

Public, Private

Scope

Employment avenues are in Insurance companies which hire agents to sell policies to prospective clients.

Skills Required

An insurance agent needs:

1)good communication skills

2)an aptitude for working with numbers and calculations

3)a high level of perseverance and motivation

4)good interpersonal skills

Eligibility

To recruit agents a written examination is held for Graduates(21 to 35 years )to test personality, language and mathematical ability followed by interview.

3 years of training follows the recruitment. Each trainee is given a target of the amount of business he has to procure annually and the performance is reviewed quarterly                                                                             A monthly stipend is given in addition to the earnings through commissions. The LIC provides its agents with various facilities 

Institutions offering the course

Institute in Bihar                                                                               

1. Bailey Road, Patna Bihar, PIN – 800001, Phone: 0612-2531186, Email: info@patnawomenscollege.in                                               

Institute in other locations                                                                                      

1. Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu

2. Bharatidasan University, Tiruchirappalli

3. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad

4. Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune

5. University of Madras, Chennai

References

1) Career in insurance (n.d.) retrived from http://www.jagranjosh.com/careers/insurance-1286367352-1 

2) insurance agent (n.d.) retrieved from http://www.careercentre.dtwd.wa.gov.au/Occupations/Pages/insurance-agent.aspx

3)Tondon, K(n.d.) career as insurance agent retrieved from http://www.shiksha.com/career-as-insurance-agent-cc-64