Why Hire An Intern: Students Share Their Insurance Industry Experiences

About this episode

Students share their experiences interning in the insurance industry and the impact of meaningful internship programs on their careers.

On this episode of Agency Nation Radio, we feature an installment from Invest’s “Why Hire an Intern” series. Host Johanna Holling, volunteer relations program manager at Invest, chats with three insurance industry interns and Invest scholarship winners: Blake Bartos, a finance and risk management student at Florida State University; Ben Graham, a math student at Stanford University; and Rhania Suarez, an accounting student at the University of Central Florida. Together, they share their firsthand experiences interning in the insurance industry and how meaningful internship programs can lead to full-time careers. “If I wasn’t doing something right or struck out 100 times in a row, he [mentor] was there to push me and keep me going and provide that feedback that is honest and needed … that’s the only way I was going to get better,” Bartos says. Invest is an education and scholarship program, helping students discover insurance careers while connecting independent agents with future talent. Agency Nation Radio is where insurance professionals turn on the mic and share unscripted stories about leadership, technology, marketing, success and failure—stories that helped make them the…

People in this episode

Host: Johanna Holling

Guests: Blake Bartos, Ben Graham, Rhania Suarez

Topics covered

• internship
• insurance industry
• student experiences
• career development
• mentorship

Keywords

• internship
• insurance
• students
• career
• mentorship
• scholarship
• industry experience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Invest, Florida State University, Stanford University, University of Central Florida, Agency Nation Radio, Independent Agent, iamagazine.com

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