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What Are You Wearing?

Dress for success. Fake it ’til you make it. Look the part.

If you dress more professionally you’ll be more trustworthy.

These are some quotes that we’ve probably all heard, either when we first joined the industry or when we made a transition in our career.

Well…maybe the last one was a tweet I received offering some advice.

I’d link to the tweet, but it was deleted by the author after they received some advice about their advice from the Twitterverse.

When it comes to telling our stories using digital content, is looking “professional” the most important thing? Or would we better served if “authentic” is seen as the most important.

I can tell you it’s a topic that InsNerds has taken up a time or two.

In this episode of The Insurance Nerdery, we jump into the difference between professional and authentic.

A little while ago, I applied for an internal position I really, really wanted. It meshed well with my skills and enthusiasm for insurance. It also would have helped me grow in ways that I would not have thought possible this early on in my career. I did some interview prep, including mock interviews, and … Read more

Four Keys to Developing a Well-Rounded Growth Mindset from MLK

by Jon Isaacson

With the right blueprint we can develop our lives and our careers into something we can be proud of. In October of 1967, 6 months before his death by assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia. He spoke on the idea that, like any well-constructed building, our lives … Read more

Using Processes to Maintain Relationship Focus in the Insurance Ecosystem

by Carly Burnham

This article originally published in Carly’s monthly column on AM Best’s Review. How many times have you been in a meeting or received an email about yet another change in the process of how your work gets done? If you’re anything like me, you’ve gotten frustrated on occasion with the process focus. I have a … Read more

What You Should Read in your First Year in Insurance

by Antonio Canas

Almost without exception leaders are readers, and here at Insurance Nerds we are obsessive readers. After much thought, here is our list of books a new insurance professional should read in his first year, which would put him WAY ahead of the game. Getting Things Done: The first thing you have to figure out … Read more