Young professionals showing interest in BARAIFA

A number of young professionals are showing great interest in the Barbados Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (BARAIFA) and they are signing up for membership in an effort to build their careers in the insurance field.

First Vice President of BARAIFA, Timothy Nicholls acknowledged the above as he spoke with the Barbados Advocate during a break from the Association’s conference, which was held on Friday in the Marigold Room of the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.

Nicholls, while speaking of the great interest shown in the Association, also registered his delight with the fact that a number of these young professionals are now well qualified on the academic side, to advance in the field.

“I must say unequivocally, yes ( they are showing great interest). As a matter of fact, if you do a cross survey of the young professionals here, most of them have degrees, which is very noteworthy (because this was not so much the case in the past, where people) had degrees in selling insurance,” Nicholls remarked.

“When I see application forms coming to us for membership and I see their qualifications, most of them have degrees and some of them have Masters, so it is a job now that is really not frowned upon, but looked upon as a job or rather, looked upon as a career of success and of total importance. Young professionals, they are are really, really excited about this career,” Nicholls added.

Nicholls meanwhile stated that the conference was being held to motivate young agents, so they could do well in their field.

“We have a lot of new agents who are young and really vibrant and interested in making this a career and that is why we are here. We the folks want to ensure that they stay on the beaten path, on the track of integrity, on the tract to doing all the right things, because we want to make sure that this career is a very noble career and it is one that when we are gone, that it remains intact and on track,” Nicholls said.