“"I've read a lot of reviews on sites like Yelp and on the better business bureau and I have to agree with everyone that this company is super unprofessional and agressive. They've done so many things that are huge red flags, I'm honestly surprised the company is still in operations. My frustration with AIL is based on two things. The people working there and the product.
My wife has life insurance through AIL and they come in every year to try and upsell her on some new policy. Each year she politely declines, and their meeting with her is over. Last year an agent realized that I didn't have my life insurance through AIL and so he tried to start selling me on their product. I kindly told him that I wasn't interested at this time because I needed to know more about the policy before I committed.
When I told this to the agent he got agressive and called me a bad father and husband for wanting to wait to upgrade my insurance. I couldn't believe how aggressive and direct he was, and kindly escorted him out of my house.
After the meeting I looked up the reviews online and found the overwhelming negative response. Not only were these aggressive selling tactics being used all across the US, but the product itself seemed to not actually pay out what they promised, and they charged their customers more. I told my wife about this and we quickly switched her to a better and more affordable plan. "”
“The process starts off with getting an email from a recruiter for the positions. You have a quick chat where they sell you on the roles of the position and what you might expect to make from working there. They then bring you in for an interview pretty quickly, where you wait in a waiting room with about 10 other people. When its your turn to interview they ask some basic questions about your history and sales experience, but are more just trying to sell you on joining the company.”
“The jobs at AIL are all comission only. We get a check every week from our vested sales, and if you hit your quotas you'll be given some extra money (they call it 'the world's greatest bonus'). Honestly don't expect to make much money at all though because the product is too hard to sell.”
“Technically you're allowed to set up your own schedule but it's more determined based on your managers and the times you have meetings booked with clients. I'd say the most common block of time I got was 10:00 am to 9:00 pm. Every once in awhie they push a 'Win Week' where they force you to work 9:00 am to 9:00 pm for 7 days.”
“"If you want to be successful at AIL you'll have to be willing to put in long days and stay positive throughout it all. It isn't an easy job but it can be worth it if you know how to sell well and you have the drive to succeed. Most days I'm working 10 + hours, and I don't really get weekends off (although I do take off some Mondays and Tuesdays to rest).
My day usually starts when I wake up at about 7:00 am. I like to get up early so that I can be one of the first ones in the office and have a head start on everyone else. I get to the office at about 8 - 8:30, where I take a look and plan out the rest of my day. I look at the leads I have on the backlog and plan out my routes for the day, and make sure I know any relevant information for their accounts.
After I've planned my routes and meetings, I try and delve into getting more leads. A lot of the leads that AIL provides us aren't actually very strong, so I like to find people who recently dropped their insurance or are looking for a new plan. I check local forums for people who seem to be in need, and message people on linkedIn etc.
My day is then to go around to the peoples homes for the meetings. I space out my meetings far apart because you never really know how long a meeting is going to take, it could be 10 minutes, it could be 3 hours, but you don't want to miss out on a sale just because you're rushed from one to the next.
The sales part is my favorite part. You have to look at what the person is excited about and delve into it. Sales is the part of the job that gets you all your money, and everything else in the day is leading up to this point.
After my sales visits I make some notes about work that I'll have to follow up on the next day, such as entering in new customers, and enter in any leads they give me. I end my days usually around 8:00, and head home to relax by the couch."”
If you leave your job you don't get any of your money back. Your residual income will fully stop within a few months unless you're fully vested. You have to work until you make your money back through the vest before you're able to get all the money back.
Historically we actually had pretty much no benefits. We have a super expensive insurance policy that you can buy for health, dental, and vision. Recently they've started giving a stippend for the gas because too many people were leaving the job because of how much we have to spend on gas every week.
All of the jobs at AIL are sales jobs. Although you'll be selling different things, AIL doesn't actually care about what you're selling. They give you a script to follow and are expected to follow through with what the script tells you to do. There are different positions at the company like recruiter or manager, but they're all about selling something to someone.
“"AIL has been able to make a lot of money from its business throughout the years. When it started the company was focussed heavily on life insurance, then it transitioned towards insurance for union workers, and now we've come back to focussing a lot on life insurance and other practices.
American Income Life makes money from the insurance policies that they sell. Statistically we have more money coming in than we do have people withdrawing money from their policies, so through these we're able to make pretty good income.
The leaders in the organization make the majority of their money through comission. There's a very interesting comission structure where about 50% of your comissions goes towards your manager, who gives 50% of his comissions to his manager, and so on and so forth.
This makes it so the top executives are getting small amounts of comission from everyone who is working and making sales in the organization, along with their salaries and bonusses."”
American Income Life is an international company that helps families by providing life insurance products. As the only all union employer in insurance from bottom to the top of the organization, American Life Insurance has always strived to create a work environment that is pro union. AIL furthers the cause of labor wheneever there is an opportunity.
Founded in 1951 by Bernard Rapoport and Harrold Goodman, American Income Life has its headquarters based in Waco, Texas. Starting the company with a small $25,000 loan, American Income Life has been able to grow as one of the larger American insurance providers. Now with over 2 million policy holders, $2.6 billion in assets, and more than $41.3 billion of life insurance in force, AIL has a strong financial position.
American Income Life Insurance hires people specifically for their insurance and benefit sales roles. These roles are centered around following leads, visiting people in their homes, and trying to sell life insurance. American Income Life is a sales driven organization.
Positive reviews from employees report enjoying the unlimited earning potential, the ability to learn sales, the flexible working hours, and the positive and engaged work atmosphere. Negative reviews from employees report being frustrated with the low quality product, the non-supportive management staff, the high pressure environment, the lack of a work life balance, the weak training, the lack of company ethics, and the inability to sell the product because of its bad rates.
American Income Life is constantly hiring new people for roles specificially in Sales and Recruiting. Knowing insurance is a bonus, but the core skills needed are a drive to sell. There are currently over 700 jobs listed on glassdoor for American Income Life.
American Income Life focusses on growing its business through 4 core values.
- Giving back - The idea of helping others is at the basis of AIL's work. Their focus is towards helping people have better and more secure lives with less risk.
- Learning - AIL wants all of its employees to learn the best way to sell products and engage with their clients to build a positive working relationship.
- Growth - American Income Life wants their employees to grow with the company and grow personally as they do. They provide many opportunities to stay at the company and become management.
- Passion - AIL wants their employees to be passionate when they're working to bring in more sales and to help solidify the emotional side of the business.
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The American Income Insurance Company was founded in 1951 with $25,000 of borrowed capital. The founders, President Harold Goodman and his nephew, Bernard Rapopor, orginally chartered an office in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company started with overwhelming success, reaching $1 million in premium just 2 years after its founding. By 1954, they had over 6,000 policy applications monthly, and in September of that year they changed the company name to American Income Life Insurance Company (AIL). In 1958 the company moved its head offices from Indianapolis, Indiana to Waco, Texas.
1961 was when AIL started selling to labor unions. They provided features that were not offered by other insurers, and worked hard to build union type insurance that supported the workers the most. They developed scholarship programs to help union members send their kids to school, among other programs. AIL grew quickly after this focus, and became the only insurer to be completely union from bottom to the top. In 1994 AIL was sold to Torchmark Corporation for $563 million, and then hired Roger Smith as the new CEO and President.