4. Meet with customers face-to-face--Talking with real customers is often more telling than most in-depth survey or a focus group performed by a third party. Make it a point to sit down with customers at trade shows, or get a client contact name from someone in sales and just call them up for a chat. (This is more than useful market research. You can also use customer anecdotes to strengthen your position internally.)

5. Share market research results consistently--Where do your research results live? In a drawer? In your head? Not good. Come up with a consistent solution for sharing them. Launch an internal newsletter, house results in a central database, leave them on tables in lunchroom, find other ways to constantly remind people that you have tools to help them make decisions.

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The downside in experience that must be considered is that an employee may not fully understand processes and procedures unique to your insurance company. No two companies perform all their tasks same way and an employee who has performed a specific role for one company may assume (incorrectly) that you do or should do it same way. This can lead to bottlenecks and sometimes even conflict.

An additional drawback to experience that must be addressed when filling insurance jobs is knowledge that prospective employee has worked in insurance industry jobs and has chosen to leave an employer. The last thing you want is to fill one of your vacant jobs with an employee who has a history of leaving related positions.

Both of these drawbacks can be addressed with a few simple questions of employee and to past employers.

Personal skills are arguably one of most important criteria when filling insurance industry jobs. While importance of personal skill is obvious when hiring for insurance agent jobs, these skills are equally important when considering employees for administration and more technical positions as well. While these people may not necessary be dealing with public on a regular basis they will play a key roll in developing a productive work environment.

Although primary objective in any businesses is to insure profitability, developing an enjoyable work environment in which various parties can communicate leads to new ideas, higher productivity due to a willingness of all employees to work together, and perhaps most importantly – a lower employee turnover rate.

For some insurance jobs, personal skills are more important than others however for every position they should be considered. You may even want to consider having current staff who will be working closely with new employee meet during interview process and provide feedback. If your staff work well together their productivity will naturally increase.

While every company and position within that company is different, as long as above three areas are considered when hiring for any of various insurance industry jobs available, you as employer are far more likely to foster a positive, productive and in end, more profitable company. You will end up with a staff that is properly educated, has good experience if applicable, and works well together. Like any well-oiled machine - this is recipe for success when filling insurance related jobs.

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