New York Life interview questions

HR Rep called me a few weeks after my online application and invited me in to discuss possible career options. Set the interview for the following afternoon. Interview was one on one in the HR reps office. She told me that it would take about 30 minutes and was the first of 3 potential interviews. The second would last about an hour and a half and I don't remember what she said about the third. Interview went pretty well, but I realized that it was not a job that would fit right now. 100% commission, calling friends and family, getting referrals, and extensive prospecting. She gave a really brief company history presentation which included a quick breakdown of commission schedules and pointed out that you continue to get paid every year that a life insurance policy is renewed, creating an ongoing pipeline of residual income. I stopped her there, because I have been sold this story before. I thanked her for her time and said that this was not a position that was going to work out.

It went fairly well. The interviewer was a Senior Partner with the firm and had been there 30+ years. He was very genial and forthcoming with information. The only thing that he said that raise any alarms was that it was purely commission based, but with what to me seemed a decent percentage base. He said that they only did "warm calls," but I have read other places that I myself might need to initiate my own sales(this is something that I will need to look further into). He invited me to a second interview. He said that he had the process would take 5 interviews over approximately 3 weeks and that if I continued to impress that at the end of this I would be offered a position. I am still doing research.