USI Insurance Services reviews

Want you physically in the office, and then ask why you are not out in front of prospects. Operations will tell you that they do not want to provide quotes to potential clients, they want you to get prospects to sign Agent of Record forms to name the company as broker. Certain markets are not open to you as the vertical leader controls access which makes it difficult to do your job. Management would take a week off without letting staff know they were going to be out and without directions of who to speak to about issues that arise.

Not organized or formal training at the time I was there, it was basically a sink or swim type of deal. You get to shadow some people for a bit, you ask some questions and then it's off to the phone's to talk with prospects. Definitely not a lot of emphasis on individual development, or continued training either. I pretty much had to create my own training schedule by myself in the beginning. You really need to hit the ground running and stay running without stumbling, if you have a few bad months there you are probably going to be fired or put on a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) at the very least which will likely end in being terminated. It is a very difficult sell, and you are going to be selling the more expensive product compared to the competition. A lot of times the people you are selling to don't care about the extras in the policy that justify the higher price, so even if you make a great pitch and point out all of the negatives in the other policy they still will end up going with the lower policy through no fault of your own. No matter how well you have done in the past, and even when people in management acknowledge your potential, you never felt that you had job security. You were always as good as your last month, so myself and others I worked with at the time felt huge stress and pressure working there because no matter what you always felt like you could lose your job at any time. Not a great feeling going to work everyday, and it was downright draining emotionally and mentally. Not for the faint of heart, this is an old school salesman type of environment, sell or die essentially.