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Southern Fidelity Insurance Recruiting New Agents in Mississippi

Southern Fidelity Insurance Company, a regional insurance company serving consumers throughout the Southeast, is looking to recruit local agents in Mississippi after expanding into the state in July. The company, which has been doing business since 2005, said it is …

Are Agencies Overpaying for Young Employees Today?

Memo to insurance agency owners seeking to onboard new employees: Expect to pay more, offer more and train more. Those trying to hire know that already. “What we’re seeing in particular in Texas, and I imagine in other places, too, …

5 Steps to Improving Producer Hiring Results

As an agency owner, the success of your business is directly tied to your hiring process. Each bad hire can easily cost $100,000 to $200,000. However, good producers can add $1 million of annual revenue (which nets most owners around …

Young Agents Rate Flexibility, Career Growth Over Technology: Vertafore Survey

Technology is not an incentive when it comes to attracting and retaining millennials to the insurance industry but it can provide overall job satisfaction in terms of flexibility and career growth opportunities, according to a new survey released by insurance …

Farmers Insurance Looks to Add 200-Plus Agency Owners in Texas

Property/casualty multiline insurer, Farmers Insurance, plans to add 244 agency owners throughout Texas in the coming year. Farmers announced it is offering special incentives to military veterans, reservists and bilingual candidates who can tap the state’s increasingly multicultural consumer markets. …

Allstate Seeking to Expand Agency Count in Texas

Allstate Insurance Co. is launching a recruitment campaign to appoint 120 new agency owners in Texas this year. Allstate agency owners are also actively searching for qualified candidates to fill more than 800 sales professional positions in agencies across the …

Nationwide Insurance Recruiting New Agents in Texas

Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance announced that the company is looking to add 100 new Advantage Program insurance agents in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, Texas markets. Nationwide Insurance Advantage Program agents will serve as independent contractor exclusive …

Allstate Accelerates California Recruiting

Allstate Insurance Co. plans to add additional agency owners in California in 2013, expanding its recruiting campaign for the fifth consecutive year. Allstate said it signed 58 new exclusive agents in California last year and in 2011, after adding 44 …

Allstate Looks to Grow Florida Agency Force Again

Allstate’s Florida says it wants to add dozens of new agencies along with support staff jobs across the state, mostly in north and central Florida. Allstate said its 2012 agency strategy should create approximately 100 new jobs in Florida. “We …