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Life Insurance Sales

There are many nuances of a Career in Life Insurance Sales. I want to first understand What a Career in Life Insurance Sales entails before I invest time and effort to figure out How to start a Career in Life Insurance Sales. I was Googling about a Career in Life Insurance Sales and was lucky to find: https://www.lifepage.in/careers/life-insurance-sales

Dharmendra Sethi’s take!

Dharmendra Sethi has worked in Life Insurance Sales for 6 years & 8 months. Dharmendra Sethi has worked in Life Insurance Sales as Branch Manger in Exide Life Insurance. In Dharmendra Sethi’s own words, this is how Dharmendra Sethi got into Life Insurance Sales: “I have done Garments and Manufacturing business. I was with General Electric. I worked for a while in America and then in Gurgaon.Then in 2006 I started working with ING Life Insurance as a Branch Manager” I searched Dharmendra Sethi on Google and found this profile: https://www.lifepage.in/page/dharmendrasethi

Career Video on Life Insurance Sales

In a video, Dharmendra Sethi has talked about various aspects of a Career in Life Insurance Sales. Dharmendra Sethi started by explaining Life Insurance Sales as: “Insurance sales agents commonly sell one or more types of insurance, such as property and casualty, life, health, and long-term care. We insure alot of our belongings whether it is a house or a car or other things. But the most important things that one has to be careful is about insuring life.” The video was an engaging disposition.

I found the video unique because it talked about Education in terms of things which can be learnt from books, to excel at a Career in Life Insurance Sales and not as a list of Qualifications, which one needs to get into Life Insurance Sales. Dharmendra Sethi touches upon these in the Education section of the Video:

• Economics
• Commerce
• Language Knowledge
• Sales and Marketing
• Psychology

90% success in real life depends on Skills. It is crucial to understand these.
Dharmendra Sethi then explains why these Skills are essential for a Career in Life Insurance Sales:

• Communication
• Negotiation
• Leadership
• General Awareness
• Presentation
• Compassion
• Discipline

Positives of any Career motivate one to work hard for the same.
Dharmendra Sethi believes that the following are some of the Positives of a Career in Life Insurance Sales:

• Huge Incentives
• Public Interaction
• Quick Growth
• Job Oppurtunities

Challenges define a Career as much as the Positives of the same.
And, Dharmendra Sethi believes that one needs to prepare for following Challenges of a Career in Life Insurance Sales:

• Sales Pressure
• Market Competition
• Misconceptions Of Insurance

In the final section of the video Dharmendra Sethi talks about How a day goes in a Career in Life Insurance Sales. This video is by far the best video on a Career in Life Insurance Sales, that I have ever come across. To see the full Talk, one needs to install the LifePage Career Talks App. Here is a direct deep link of the Video: https://lifepage.app.link/20170710-0001