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College Agent Intern

New York Life
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New York Life College Internship Program 

Are you a Sophomore, Junior or upcoming Senior with the following skills and qualifications?

  • Willing to Learn
  • Self-disciplined
  • Self-motivated
  • Good Communication skills
  • Good Organizational skills
  • Enjoys working with people
  • Involved on campus in student organizations, athletics or within the community
  • A GPA of 2.5 or higher

If so, New York Life is seeking full-time, U.S. based college students*1 to join our College Internship Program, where students will learn what it’s like to build a career as a Financial Professional with a Fortune 100 company.  As a pre-requisite to joining the College Internship Program, you will study and pass the state life and health license exam after which you will be contracted with New York Life as a College Agent Intern.  We will help you get set up to take the state exam.  Once you pass, and become contracted with us, you will be part of a hands-on program where day-to-day you will:

  • Learn the Sales Process from beginning to end with an emphasis on finding prospective clients
  • Learn how to work with New York Life Systems such as CRM (Customer Relationship Management), GuideMe, Financial calculators and e-Learning platforms
  • Learn how to create a business plan, marketing plan and build target markets
  • Shadow current Financial Professionals

You will begin building your own client base by:

  • Scheduling appointments and meetings with prospective clients
  • Learning how to analyze the information gathered from prospective clients through a detailed financial analysis
  • Making product recommendations to help individuals, families and business owners reach their financial goals
  • Aiming to reach set sales goals

Application Requirements:

  • Must be willing to study for and take the state Life and Health License Exams
  • Must be available 10 to 15 hours per week after passing the Life and Health Exams
  • Must be willing to attend all scheduled meeting and training sessions once licensed
  • Must have a willingness to learn and a desire to excel

As a licensed College Agent Intern with New York Life, you will have the ability to build a practice where you are in business for yourself, but not by yourself while making a lasting impact on your clients’ lives by helping them set and reach their financial goals. There will be mentorship opportunities available as well as opportunities to qualify for awards and incentives.  In addition, you will learn about future opportunities in Management. 

Compensation

New York Life will value and reward your hard work and success. You will receive a monetary stipend of $540 upon completion of the licensing requirement.  Once you are licensed, you will be contracted with New York Life as a College Agent Intern and your compensation will be commission-based, dependent on your own sales and determined through the ledger process*2 for the remainder of the internship. 

 

About New York Life

New York Life is a Fortune 100 company with a long history of doing good. We have been in business for over 175 years, helping generations of Americans protect their families and attain their financial goals. As a mutual company, we are accountable only to our policyholders, not to Wall Street or outside investors. We are focused on long-term success for our clients. To prepare for the future, we are constantly innovating and looking ahead to find more ways to increase value for our clients.

 

Awards & Accolades

We’re proud of our financial strength*3

  • A++ Superior (A.M. Best)
  • AAA Exceptionally Strong (Fitch)
  • Aaa Exceptional (Moody’s)
  • AA+ Very Strong (Standard & Poor’s)

 

We’re proud of the training we offer*4

  • Learning Elite winner by Chief Learning Officer magazine for 2023

 

We’re proud to be recognized by organizations that also value diversity

  • Seramount: 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women
  • Human Rights Campaign: 2023 Corporate Equality Index
  • Forbes 2023: America’s Best Employers for Diversity

 

For more information, please contact and send your resume to:

Joneal Ellison, Partner at 

jellison01@newyorklife.com or call 916-410-2862

 

 Students with an OPT/CPT visa are not eligible to participate

 

 Each credit and debit posted to the Agent’s Ledger is part of determining the agent’s compensation and no individual credit posted to the ledger is earned until the ledger reconciliation process is complete.

 

 New York Life Insurance Company continues to receive the highest financial strength ratings currently awarded to any life insurer in the U.S. from all four

major rating agencies. Source: Individual Third-Party Ratings Reports: A.M. Best A++, Fitch Ratings AAA, Moody’s Aaa, and Standard & Poor’s AA+ (as of

11/17/2023).

 

 A full list of our awards is available here: https://www.newyorklife.com/newsroom/our-awards-and-recognition

 

New York Life Insurance Company, New York, NY

New York Life is an equal opportunity employer M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

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