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Posted on 01/10/2015 3:05:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
State Farm is still hiring even as it prepares to move its first set of employees into its new Richardson campus later this month.
The nation’s largest auto and home insurer will hold a job fair on Jan. 15 in Richardson for several hundred full-time and part-time positions in claims, sales, customer service and information technology departments this year.
The job fair will take place in three blocks of time: from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will be held at the North Dallas Hyatt Regency Hotel, 701 E Campbell Road, Richardson.
Job seekers are encouraged to complete an online application first....
(Excerpt) Read more at bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com ...
When I signed up for unemployment I started getting “job” offers from insurance companies. They train you but you only get commissions. Their business model is they train you, you sell to all your friends and family, then you don’t get any more sales and the fire you. It’s a scam. I had a couple of friends fall for it.
In this case, State Farm is hiring headquarters type employees, not commission salespeople. Big difference. BTW, I work for commissions/bonuses/incentives only, but I have a VA disability and my wife’s job to help support us. My opportunity isn’t insurance, per se, but is somewhat similar.
When I worked at the state unemployment office certain insurance companies (Combined, A.L. Williams, etc.) would use our offices and conference rooms to interview because they typically didn’t have their own office space. We finally put the kibosh on that and told them to rent something or go to a coffee shop.
State Farm is an Illinois company.
Why would they want to hire a bunch of folks in Texas?
I don’t have a problem with commission sales. My wife and I did all right selling new homes on commission. But insurance companies are a different animal. Stock trading companies do the same thing. Sell to your friends and relatives. Not me.
As for State Farm, I was insured by them since I was 16 in 1967. For two cars up until 5 years ago I was paying more than $150 a month. I got a quote from the Hartford Group through AARP for half that. The insurance agent cried the blues and said “I can’t get anywhere near that price.” So, we left and haven’t looked back.
About three months after we dropped State Farm they wrote a policy for my step daughter and her husband for about the same price we were paying Hartford. So much for loyalty.
.....Their business model is they train you, you sell to all your friends and family, then you don’t get any more sales and the fire you. It’s a scam. I had a couple of friends fall for it.....
This... ain’t that. Trust me. I you want a job in the field this as a great opportunity.
I worked for straight commission once in my life . . . as a cab driver. If you treated the regulars nice, they would sometimes ask for you personally when business got slow. My favorite was a comely black lady who worked in a couple of go-go bars. She was a great tipper and told me jokes of a racial nature which would be career enders if she was a white Republican.
IIRC, Century 21 Real Estate’s #1 producer was/is a former Eastern European immigrant who could barely speak English and looked like a hobo in that gold jacket. The only thing he had going for him was will power and working like a slave until he made it.
They’ve moved, like most other sane companies.
Take five and read the linked article and it may help explain your question.
State Farm to expand Richardson regional hub with fourth tower
Insurance commission sales is hard brutal work.
“State Farm is an Illinois company.”
Not anymore. Obama and Pat Quinn drove them out.
Why would they want to hire a bunch of folks in Texas?
Then why would they build 2 million square feet of new office space in Texas? Maybe they wish to escape Illinois TAXES for the free state of TEXAS.
Springfield is in trouble because of Chicago voters.
you have no freaking clue what you're talking about.
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State Farm To Leave Illinois, Move To Texas
http://www.westernjournalism.com/state-farm-to-leave-illinois-move-to-texas/#ixSmLcJx3iUsghYz.99
These are corporate jobs (although fairly low level ones - part of the new complex is a call center). They are opening a $Billion and a half facility in stages, and they need to fill it up.
FYI:
“State Farm, the nationally-known insurance chain headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, has apparently had its fill of “The Land of Lincoln’s” confiscatory taxes. The 800 million dollar company is reported to have purchased “substantial workspace” in the Dallas, Texas area. The giant insurance firm’s workers are being kept in the dark reportedly to avoid “alarming them”; but is it their workers or the State of Illinois they would like to keep in the dark about this move? If this doesn’t signal State Farm’s coming dash out of Illinois’s clutches, what could it mean?
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A knowledgeable Dallas real estate insider has called this impending move “a major business relocation” of record-breaking proportions. The numbers involved are approximately 2.5 million square feet of workspace and thousands of workers. No company in Dallas’ history has made a move this large.
Texas isn’t the only state State Farm is running to. There has also been a report that it has leased office space in Atlanta. The combined amount of both new locations roughly equals the 3.5 million square feet it has in Bloomington.
These moves should come as no surprise to anyone. In spite of (or maybe because of) raising its corporate and personal income tax rate by 67% in 2010, Illinois has seen its credit rating fall and its deficit raise. A review of the tax structure in Georgia shows the personal and corporate income tax is 4% as compared to Illinois’ 6.25%.
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