How often do you have to renew insurance agents license in texas?
You renew every 2 years. You also need 30 hours of CE credit, 2 of which need to be in ethics, in order to renew your license.
I recruit people for Farmers Insurance to become insurance agents. We train and help finance them to open their own insurance office. I’m doing this within a 30 mile radius of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
I use internet recruiting sites, newspaper and radio advertisements, career fairs, mail campains, cold calling, and current agent referals. I’m not getting as many interested people as I would like.
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I recruited life insurance agents. As you can see from the answer of another poster you’ve got a lot of inertia to overcome. My most effective way to find candidates was to ask almost everyone I came in contact with this simple question: "Who is doing well but is unhappy in their current job?"
Just like asking for referred leads when selling insurance people would often say that they didn’t know anyone who wanted to become an insurance agent. I’d counter with something like "I know that and didn’t expect you would. I not looking for a person who wants to be an insurance agent. I’m looking for a person who is doing well but is otherwise unhappy and maybe thinking of making a change, someone who may have made a comment about wanting to go into business for themselves. How about some of the salesmen that call on you at your business……"
My second best source was career fairs followed by cold calling and newspapers. I made a goal to get five names a day. As you know this winnowed down pretty quickly. But, if I got an uninterested person who would at least talk I’d start the process above all over. My best agent came this way – a woman who was widowed at an early age.
Good luck to you. It is a tough but necessary job as you know.
Flyboy, CLU