What is it that insurance companies often recruit reserve cadres? What kind of cadres are they?

"Reserve cadres should be willing to start at the grassroots level" ―― Interview with Pu Hong, business manager of Pacific Antai Life Insurance: What is a reserve cadre? Why should enterprises recruit reserve cadres? Pu Hong: Reserve cadres are reserve talents for enterprise management. Through a series of training and exercises, they eventually become middle-level or even senior managers. If enterprises want to develop in the fierce market competition, they must have management backbones and excellent talents. In addition to outsourcing, enterprises are paying more and more attention to cultivating their own management talents and creating leading figures who can lead enterprises to ride the wind and waves. To this end, enterprises will generally go through strict and prudent recruitment procedures, select the most potential talents, conduct strict training, and enrich all the abilities and skills required for reserve cadres to become professional managers. Reporter: What are the requirements for applying for reserve cadre positions? Pu Hong: Different enterprises have different nature and development goals, so the conditions for recruiting reserve cadres are different. But * * * the same thing is to pay special attention to the comprehensive quality and development potential of candidates, whether they have good psychological quality and work attitude, and whether they are willing to start from the grassroots. Reporter: At the job fair, we found that the recruitment conditions of reserve cadres are not very high, and there are not many requirements in terms of age, education and work experience. However, the requirement of "hard work and unity" is not easy to examine. Many people meet the requirements, giving the impression that there are so many reserve cadres. Therefore, some people suspect that enterprises are likely to recruit reserve cadres, but actually recruit ordinary workers such as salesmen. what do you think? Pu Hong: I think the reason why some enterprises set a lower threshold is to recruit talents and improve the chances of selecting suitable talents. However, it is not excluded that individual enterprises "sell dog meat by hanging sheep's heads". Some people mistakenly think that the recruitment of "reserve cadres" by insurance companies is actually the recruitment of general insurance salesmen, so everyone is here. In fact, the conditions for insurance companies to recruit "reserve cadres" are not relaxed. In addition to having a college degree or above and no experience in the same industry, you must have at least two to three years of departmental management experience. The annual income of the previous year must be at least 40,000 yuan ... Insurance companies will never recruit fresh graduates as reserve cadres. After joining the job, the training time provided by reserve cadres is three to five times or even longer than that provided by ordinary salesmen. Of course, the benefits will be different. If the performance is not up to standard, you will not be promoted to director within the specified time, and you will also be reduced to ordinary salesman. This is something that some candidates do not understand and cannot accept. In the era of market economy, everything is said by numbers, the market does not believe in tears, and customers do not sympathize with the weak. Reporter: It is precisely because ordinary reserve cadres should start at the grassroots level that there is a saying in society that reserve cadres are salesmen and handymen. In addition, some people think that there are not so many management positions in enterprises at all, and many reserve cadres are still in their original posts and doing their original jobs a few years later. They think that enterprises treat them as cheap labor. what do you think? Pu Hong: There are indeed some enterprises with ulterior motives, using "reserve cadres" to attract job seekers, so as to make use of lower labor costs to earn profits. But many enterprises really want to train talents, so that they can realize their own value in the future and gain greater benefits for the enterprises. If insurance companies reduce the requirements for recruiting reserve cadres, it will undoubtedly increase the training cost, which is not conducive to the development of enterprises in the long run. There is a concept in society that reserve cadres are at least quasi-cadres, naturally comfortable in their work and have a bright future. In fact, not all reserve cadres can become cadres, but they are more likely to become managers than others. Take our insurance industry as an example. Because of its special industry attributes, the setting of management positions is not like other industries, but you can become a team manager if you have the ability and performance to meet the promotion standards. Generally speaking, after hard work, reserve cadres have a better chance of being promoted to junior managers in three to five years and senior managers in seven to eight years. Reporter: Then how do you think job seekers should treat the position of reserve cadres correctly? Pu Hong: I used to be a reserve cadre, so I have deep feelings about it. Indeed, if reserve cadres really want to grow into managers, they must have a good attitude and do practical things in a down-to-earth manner. If the boss intends to train you, he won't give you a high position from the beginning. Generally, he will let you start at the grassroots level and gradually promote you through exercise. As far as I know, many people just can't stand the test and are eliminated. Just as "Heaven will take great responsibility for Sri Lankan people, we must first work hard for their minds, bones and muscles, and starve their bodies", reserve cadres need to have the mentality of starting from the grassroots level, be willing to accept more tempering and overcome more setbacks. Talent is cultivated, talent is honed. The managers that enterprises need are big talents, and they can only be competent after tempering.

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