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Location: Savannah, GA
Company: MetLife
Experience: Mid-level
Highest Level of Education: Undergraduate Degree



Job Responsibilities
I typically spend about 50% of my time recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new people. The majority of the remainder of my time is training the new people, going on joint sales calls with my representatives, helping them to obtain quality "On the job" training. The final portion of my time is spent on team building activity in the office, compliance, and leadership training.
Job Requirements
The hiring process is a tedious process, that once accomplished a plethora of training and classes can be expected. A definite plan for training is in place, regardless of the desired specialization that an individual would want to achieve.
Uppers
I am able to touch hundreds and hundreds of lives through the training of my agents, helping them to help their clients to not only dream dreams, but one day live them.
Downers
If you want to be the 'best', you will have to spend enormous amounts of time preparing and studying on an ongoing basis.
Lifestyle
You will have a lifestyle equal to or exceeding your client's level of life style. If you work with doctors, and have the knowledge necessary to do so, then the products and services that they will need would provide you with the type of income and lifestyle equal to that of a doctor.
Compensation
There is no reason that someone in this business should make less than 6 figure income. If after 5 years of appropriate training, and traditional schooling you're not at a 6 figure level, it's simply because you didn't work smart/hard enough.
Advice to Jobseekers
Don't do it... not unless you want to work hard at learning everything there is possible available do to be a FULL resource to your clients, and then after working and studying so hard, being able to lay your head on the pillow at night with such a peace that you've made a difference in someone's life that could potentially impact their family for generations, all the while making a 'pretty darn good living' doing it!

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