I applied online. I interviewed at Liberty Mutual Insurance (Buffalo, NY) in Mar 2013
Interview
Apply online and complete online test whichtakes about an hour minimally. Shortly after that received a call from am recruiter to do a phone interview.
Next step is to meet with the sales manager which is a typical interview youl would expect. The next interview step is where it gets a little wierd you do another quick interview then spend 3 hours making cold calls to try to get peoples auto insurance expiration dates? You do this with no training and on the spot. They ask you to bring in a list and and offer to let you use your list or theirs. I used theirs which was nothing more than a generic list. I spent 3 hours getting hung up on and told they're not interested (it was a blast).
The next step is to meet with a regional manager but never made it that far, I received a call asking if I would be willing to purchase my own lists of (warm) customers and spend about $200-$400 a month. He said many of the reps do that with good luck. I personally found this to be very tacky and informed the manager I was no longer interested.
My advice would be if there is a better way to get your lists spend the money to do so as oppose to expecting new reps to do that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Would you be willing to invest $200-$400 a month in your own prospect list?
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Liberty Mutual Insurance
Interview
The hiring manager was a great guy, easy to talk to, energetic. I was impressed with the professionalism displayed throughout the interview process. It was clear that Liberty Mutual had all their ducks in a row. The process included 2 in-person interviews with the hiring manager, a personality test (taken online), and an in-person interview with the regional manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During the 2nd interview I was asked to do a mock sales call. This was difficult but enjoyable.