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Do CISSP’s make good life insurance agents?

Ben Rothke
3 min readSep 13, 2021
https://berkettinsurance.com/life-insurance-agent/

When I was looking for a job a few years ago, I updated my profile on a popular job board. While the information security space is quite hot and my inbox was quite busy, I also got many emails from left field. Over a few weeks, I also received over 25 emails from some of the most prominent life insurance firms in the US, including:

  • Bankers Life
  • Aflac
  • Prudential
  • Allstate
  • New York Life
  • Northwestern Mutual
  • State Farm

The emails from the life insurance firms attempted to stroke my ego with statements such as:

  • We came across your resume posted online and are very interested in you as a possible candidate.
  • I’m in charge of reviewing top local resumes and yours stood out to me
  • We found your resume on careerbuilder.com and we are very interested in you as a possible match for our Account Representative position
  • We believe you possess the skills necessary to join the Career Management Program
  • It is not every day I read a resume and think WOW!

Did these firms saw my CISSP and think: this guy was born to become a life insurance agent? Three of the life…

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Ben Rothke
Ben Rothke

Written by Ben Rothke

I work in information security at Tapad. Write book reviews for the RSA blog, & a Founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and Cybersecurity Canon.

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