Manulife Asia has announced a three-year partnership with LIMRA to help recruit suitable insurance advisors to improve customer insurance experience. The union will see Manulife leveraging LIMRA’s Career Choice tool to assess candidates interested in providing financial and insurance advice.
LIMRA’s bespoke tool helps evaluate a candidate’s aptitude, entrepreneurial spirit, and prospecting courage in the light of a set of market-specific questions and easy to access self-generated report. Bosco Lau, Regional Chief Executive Officer, Asia, LIMRA, said, “It will help us recruit the best candidates and, for candidates, it will help them better understand the value they bring to people’s lives as they provide the needed insurance advice to customers.” The tool is currently being rolled out in Hong Kong and Singapore, with plans to extend usage to emerging Southeast Asian markets by the end of 2021.