I did some random Googling and came across 5 recruitment adverts from different companies and firms within the financial services industry. This is how recruitment is done in this industry: All the recruitment managers have to do is to meet a number of people and tell them how lucrative the job is, proving it by showing off their pay cheques or branded cars, and they can probably get a fraction of these people on board. Seeing as to how one must be very persuasive to be able to sell insurance policies, especially lousy products, you can only imagine how persuasive someone who has risen to the post of manager can be. For every 10 people they manage to recruit, perhaps 7, 8, or even 9 of them cannot survive for long in the business. No matter, they will start off by selling policies to their friends and family, and the ......