Insurance Business Development Executive practice interview
Building an insurance sales pipeline, diagnosing client risks, shaping proposals and retaining profitable accounts. Practise the 6 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview is about winning and growing insurance business through informed, ethical selling. The panel is assessing how you find worthwhile prospects, uncover risks, work with underwriting on accurate proposals, handle price pressure and remain useful to clients after the policy is placed.
How to prepare
- Prepare a clear example of moving an insurance prospect from first contact to placement.
- Revise discovery questions for understanding property, people, vehicles, liabilities and business interruption exposures.
- Think through how you respond when price, exclusions or claims service become objections.
- Prepare an example of coordinating with underwriting, claims or operations to serve an account.
- Review how you keep pipeline records current and forecast likely placements without exaggeration.
Common mistakes
- Leading with a product before understanding the prospect's exposures.
- Promising policy terms, pricing or claims outcomes that have not been approved.
- Focusing on new placements while neglecting service and renewal preparation.
- Counting weak contacts as qualified opportunities without a need, decision process or next step.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
6 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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