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How College Students Can Find a Career Mentor

Has anyone told you yet that you need to find a mentor? If not, get ready to hear that advice as you go through college and enter the workplace.

Finding a mentor may sound complicated, but it’s really straightforward — find someone you can consistently go to for advice and honest feedback on your path to a career.

Insurance Careers: The Best-Kept Secret

I will never forget the piece of advice that a keynote speaker shared at my first Gamma Iota Sigma (GIS) International Conference. He asked all the students in the audience to lean forward because he was going to let us in on a secret. “You just made the best choice by being here at this conference,” he said. “Working in the insurance industry is the best-kept secret.”

I didn’t think much of it at the time, but as I have grown in my education and my career, this statement has never been truer.