A job in Insurance Sales is ideal for a person who likes guiding people with financial decisions and procuring good financial products. When you work in Insurance Sales your focus and aim is to sell various insurance products, such as health, disability, life, and car insurance. You help your clients find the right product, based on their needs and lifestyle.
People working in this industry, must be aptly informed on every aspect of the product or service they are selling. They must be able to answer many queries brought forward by customers and do so convincingly. If they are continuously successful at their jobs, with or without higher qualifications, an Insurance Sales position can be very lucrative.
They may work for small or large corporations, on any number of days due to the competitiveness of their industry. Insurance Sales people can work in an office or traveling from one client location to another. Some may work from home as well, their industry is that dynamic.
An Insurance Sales professional usually performs many of the following tasks:
• Analyzing insurance programs
• Making recommendations
• Calculating premiums
• Interacting with clients
• Calling up prospective clients
• Keeping records
• Developing sales strategies
• Inspecting property

• Being sincere and honorable
• Being thoughtful and ambitious
• Being positive and passionate
• Being encouraging and cordial
• Transmitting information
• Time management
• Written and oral communication
• Being persuasive
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Dealing with huge budgets

A number of qualifications at the Masters or Bachelors Degree level are appropriate for a job in Insurance Sales. A number of these qualifications are typically from the finance area and have to do with numeric information and calculations; other business related courses are valid as well and may include:
•    Accounting
•    Economics
•    Statistics
•    Mathematics
•    Banking
•    Marketing
•    Sales
•    Business administration
Selling insurance is one of those jobs that depend largely on your sales abilities and not your educational accomplishments. It takes skill to convince people to buy something. Therefore other qualifications are accepted by employers, because their emphasis is on skills such as negotiation, motivation and sales. Insurance Sales agents with a High School Diploma, GCSEs, BTEC, NVQ or SVQ qualifications are accepted in these jobs.