I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Farm Bureau Financial Services (Albuquerque, NM) in Aug 2016
Interview
Great questions and very open with company information. No preliminary meeting with HR personnel. Meeting was with Assistant Manager who has been involved with both selling and training. Great interviewing process The interviewer asked some very pointed questions having to do with professional sales experience ... without a professional sales background, those questions would trip up an applicant.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Farm Bureau Financial Services (Des Moines, IA) in Jan 2023
Interview
Overall, it was a very professional and in depth process that includes personality assessments as well as in person meetings getting to know the position, team, and support available for the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you manage owning and operating your own business.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Farm Bureau Financial Services (Lincoln, NE) in Nov 2015
Interview
I began with an in person interview, where we talked about what it's like to be an agent for FBFS. Then I was sent home with a packet of information. Two things I had to do were their "Project 150" where I find 150 people I know and put in different factors which give me a number of how "easy" it would be to sell to them. Then I also had to fill out 10 Market Research Surveys, where you had to ask them 10 questions about their current insurance coverage and if they would want t discuss their insurance options with me if I was hired.
The second interview date came and the hiring manager had to reschedule because she had a home office meeting scheduled 4 hours away. The rescheduling never happened, instead I was given a series of questions that I had to answer which will be below. I spent a few hours working on these question and sent them back to the hiring manager. To wait two weeks before hearing anything from her. She then sent me instructions for taking the pre-licensing course, but gave me no information on what I was suppose to do exactly. I was then contacted by her assistant to get an account started with Examfx. I then emailed the hiring manager a few times asking what I needed to do, but I still have not heard anything back about three weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why should we invest time and money into you?
Why do you want to sell insurance?
What could you bring to FBFS?
Do you think you would do well in this position?
Are you comfortable fronting costs for opening a branch?
Agent applicants have rated the interview process at Farm Bureau Financial Services with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 78% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Agent roles take an average of 41 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Farm Bureau Financial Services overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Farm Bureau Financial Services as a Agent according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 21%
Personality test: 17%
Background check: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Phone interview: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
Presentation: 3%
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