Careers in Insurance/ Crius Financial Services

May 23, 2019 Careers in Insurance: I found this old brochure by Career Connections.  It could be from 2011-2012.  It's good to research careers.  I always thought insurance is boring.  

Insurance brokers:

First Steps

Your First Steps to a Challenging and Rewarding Future

The First Steps to becoming an insurance broker are important. After all, it’s not always easy to know how to put the investment you’ve made in your education to the best use. These days it’s harder than ever to know what you’re best suited for and what will provide you with a satisfying and rewarding career over time. 

Perhaps you’ve already started down a particular career path, but have a sneaky feeling that it’s not what you were looking for?

If you are enthusiastic, outgoing, self-confident, disciplined, hard-working and able to communicate effectively, then becoming an insurance broker could be the key to a challenging and rewarding future. A future that not only offers financial reward but the personal satisfaction of business management, customer service and community involvement.

Thinking About Becoming an Insurance Broker?

There are no hard and fast rules for entry.

Though brokerages prefer to hire people with post-secondary education, many will hire high-school graduates who demonstrate potential. For those considering taking post-secondary courses, classes in finance, accounting, economics, business law, business administration and public speaking will be beneficial to you in an insurance career. In fact, credits earned could be recognized for certain professional insurance designations.

Working as an insurance broker can offer you multiple career path options. There are actually many different careers within the insurance brokerage field, meaning you can likely find a position that suits your particular likes, strengths and ambitions — from part-time customer-service positions to determined commercial producers. Some typical positions in the industry include:

Entry-Level Customer Service Representative: 

Processes basic insurance transactions and auto insurance policies.

Personal Lines Representative: 

Processes more intricate insurance contracts for clients related to residential homes and personal belongings, supervised by a more senior broker. 

These contracts often include items such as residential and recreational property, automobiles and motorcycles, boats and other personal pleasure craft, collections, musical instruments and jewelry.

Commercial Lines Representative: 

Processes and manages accounts for both business and commercial property lines, operating with less supervision both in the office and at the place of their client’s business. 

These brokers deal with such insurance coverage needs such as theft, damage, equipment protection, liability issues and business interruption.

Producer:

Like commercial lines representatives, producers also process and manage coverage for both business and commercial property lines, focusing more on new business acquisition and larger accounts. 

They tend to work mostly outside of the office, often completing their transactions at their client’s place of business.

Account Executive: 

Sells commercial lines insurance and manages relationships with large accounts. Most of their work is performed in the office. Branch office manager: 

Manages all activities conducted within a branch including operations, marketing, sales and administration.

http://www.ibac.ca/Become-A-Broker/Professional-Development/First-Steps.aspx

Feb. 9, 2020 Crius Financial Services: I was wishing one of my friends/ old co-worker a happy birthday.  She says she works here:

Corporate Profile

Crius, can be pronounced as: "CREATE-US", is a financial services corporation in Canada. Our goal is to provide every client with the excellence of our products and services through innovation to meet each individual's financial needs. Because of this belief, over the years, our clients have given us many opportunities to prove our sincerity and professionalism. 

Meanwhile, Crius provides an excellent professional platform to create desirable job opportunities and the most comprehensive training experience so that our elites can fully demonstrate their entrepreneurial talent. It is the combination of clients' continuous support and our advisors' contributions that have made today's Crius Financial Services Corporation. 

Crius Financial Services Corporation was established in 2005. We are located at Metrotown in Burnaby in Metro Vancouver. In 2014, we expanded our business to Markham, Ontario, in the Greater Toronto area.

 In 2015, we expanded our business to Regina, Saskatchewan. In 2017, we expanded our business to Edmonton, Albert. In 2018, we expanded our business to Calgary, Alberta. In 2019, we expanded our business to Surrey, BC. 

Crius focuses on life insurance, health insurance, and long term investments including RESP & RRSP. We offer professional advice and outstanding products in the market and provide excellent services to our clients. Every advisor in the company is well trained and would love to help you in finding a suitable solution to your financial needs. 

Over the years, we have established solid relationships with many of the largest financial provider companies such as Knowledge First Financial, iA Financial Group, Canada Life, Equitable Life, Manulife, etc.

Crius Vision

To become the best financial services company in the industry.

Crius Mission

To create wealth for every Canadian family. To create real business for every Crius advisor.

Why Choose Us

Our integrity is not only reflected by our company's management and training system, but also by our total devotion to help and service our guests. Our management system follows excellent, practical and professional procedures. 

We serve our customers with our humility and we always set our clients' financial needs and interests as our top priority. We not only focus on the completion of each planning session, but we also pay tremendous attention to long-term cooperation with our customers. 

Customer satisfaction and interests are our first priority. It is our philosophy, our vision, our purpose, our responsibility, and our input that created us, Crius Financial Services Corporation. Crius and every one of our professional colleagues are determined to deliver this commitment to each and every one of our customers.

Careers at Crius

Thank you for your interests in Crius.

Do you genuinely like "going the extra" mile to build professional career? 

Are you a person of passion, intelligence and integrity? 

If you look at difficult situations as opportunities then you're just the type of person we'd like to have, join our team! 

Our values and culture set us apart from our competitors and create a positive team. These Leadership Best Practices are the guiding principles we use when working with each other, our team member, our customers and providers. 

Understanding and applying these values in every moment, in everything we do, make working at Crius fun and rewarding!

What makes Crius different?

We have a group of experience people to give our sales representatives the best support. Also, we provide a lot of trainings for our new members. These trainings are well-organized and specially- designed. 

These training programs have been proved very useful to help our members to be successful in this industry. 

All programs are combined with academic financial knowledge and real practice so we can help you to find out your own strength, characteristics and see if you are suitable working in this area. With our help, you will be successful in this high rewards area in a short period.

Our Benefits

With accessible leadership that supports sales representatives well being, we fortify our culture with benefits that seem to just keep on coming. We work hard to support the professional and personal growth of our people and recognize performance with a comprehensive package of rewards. 

We respect the personal goals and differing needs of our sales representatives and provide a flexible work environment to accommodate this. Our sales representatives enjoy flexible work schedules and arrangements to help them achieve a balanced and rewarding work life.

If you are interested in a career at Crius, mail, fax, or e-mail your resume to:

Crius Financial Services Corp.
1288 - 4720 Kingsway, Metrotower II
Burnaby, BC. V5H 4N2

Fax: 604-438-3690
E-mail: info@crius.ca

https://crius.ca/en/corporate/index.html