Insurance Sales Agents

Sell life, property, casualty, health, automotive, or other types of insurance. May refer clients to independent brokers, work as an independent broker, or be employed by an insurance company.

On the job, you would:

• Customize insurance programs to suit individual customers, often covering a variety of risks.
• Sell various types of insurance policies to businesses and individuals on behalf of insurance companies, including automobile, fire, life, property, medical and dental insurance, or specialized policies, such as marine, farm/crop, and medical malpractice.
• Explain features, advantages, and disadvantages of various policies to promote sale of insurance plans.

Education

• bachelor's degree
• associate's degree

Business

• customer service
• sales and marketing

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Math and Science

• arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Safety and Government

• law and government

Basic Skills

• reading work related information
• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Social

• talking people into changing their minds or their behavior
• looking for ways to help people

Enterprising

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

• Integrity
• Independence
• Attention to Detail
• Achievement/Effort
• Dependability
• Initiative

Verbal

• communicate by speaking
• listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

• notice when problems happen
• use rules to solve problems

Math

• choose the right type of math to solve a problem
• add, subtract, multiply, or divide