An insurance company is inviting new graduates to widen their job options by including a career in life insurance.
Insular Life said it wants to optimize the energy and enthusiasm of millennials by offering working arrangements beyond the nine to five grind.
The insurance firm cited its employee Ysabel Victoria Benitez whose youthful drive took a wrong turn and burned out at 23.
Ysa had high hopes when she joined the corporate world. From a young age, her dreams were crystal clear. “I wanted a three-bedroom house with a two-car garage in Pasig or Quezon City. I want to travel once or twice a year. I want to get married at age 30,” she said.
But after less than five years of working long hours, she found herself face-fallen and dreading the future.
“When I looked at my dream board, when I look at the things I want to achieve and the salary I’m getting every single cut-off, I knew, that it would take me years and years and years to actualize them,” she said.
Eventually, her restlessness grew and compelled her to explore other career options. Luckily, she didn’t have to look far; her mom, Elvie Benitez, provided her a life’s worth of reasons why an insurance career is the best choice.
“My mother is a single mom. Life insurance has been her bread and butter. Imagine all three of us siblings went to private schools and we were wanting in nothing. On Sundays, we even eat out in nice restaurants. The life insurance business is very generous to its agents,” the younger Benitez said.
She added that her respect from her mom’s career grew from years of experiencing the honesty, sincerity and real impact of the insurance business on the lives of its partners.
In less than three years in Insular Life, Benitez earned her qualification to the Million Dollar Round Table, an elite organization of the top five percent of the world’s financial advisors. Now at 27, is living her life goals.
Joining other top-performing financial advisors, she has taken part in the annual conventions hosted in Toronto and New Orleans.
Insular Life said Benitez is just one of their young success stories. It said the playing field is wide, level and fruitful enough for millennials to sow their dreams in.