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A History of Blood – Vol. 4, Chapter 26

Today I practiced and shadowed my first real interview and learned just how easy it is to make six figures, provided I actually lock in and do what I need to do.

Even without having done the interview myself, I learned a lot about the process by first watching someone else do it, and then practicing with a person whom I already worked with. It was like a new world had been opened up to me, where I saw my time in the field finally begin to amount for something. Before I reformatted my blog, I had written a fairly detailed article about how far I’ve come in my career.

My sales career started in 2016 when I interviewed with a door to door sales company. I sold fixed rate energy supply contracts for about 3 years, before I just got completely burnt out of being in the field.

In 2019 I started a Management Training Program, continuing to sell fixed rate energy supply contracts for another year, this time in a retail setting, switching to telecommunications after the pandemic, and taking a break from the industry as a whole while I served active duty in the military.

I served in the military two years before deciding to finally get my insurance license, and after being licensed for a year I decided to move to Florida to be closer to my family, learn more about my family history, and finally start a business and a family of my own.

Why we are doing interviews

The first and most important thing to understand about my agency is why we are doing interviews.

We aren’t doing interviews because someone got fired or because someone quit, but rather because we are expanding. We are looking to both take on more clients and to expand those clients into new markets, meaning we will need to hire both the individuals we can cross train into management and the individuals who will staff these client projects, whether they staff them short term or long term.

At the moment, my job isn’t to make hiring decisions, but it’s simply to get to know you well enough to make a recommendation. If I feel as though you would be a good fit for our team or if you otherwise have the potential to make it to management, then I’ll give a recommendation to move forward, and if not, I’ll recommend that we go in a different direction.

If it was up to me, I’d hire everyone, but unfortunately we have limited space on our training rosters so we can only hire the best of the best. That being said:

On the way to work I had realized that I had neglected to create a report for all the sales (and all the activity) I had done over the last few weeks.

My plan is to scale these reports according to the size of my team.