Farmers Insurance passes 100 veteran hires since launching military hiring campaign a year ago

To Lucas Buck and the entire team at Farmers Insurance, congratulations! This is a huge win for both the Farmers team and for the veteran community.

If you are an RP member and you are seeking civilian employment be sure to check out Farmer's company page on RallyPoint, they are hiring not just veterans but have a specific focus on RallyPoint veterans - it's absolutely worth throwing your hat in the ring!

https://www.rallypoint.com/organizations/farmers-insurance-los-angeles-ca

A respectable company, met some great agents at a VA Job fair.

Also want to commend SMSgt Al Schilling MAJ Rod Harden Corina MAck CPT (Join to see) CPT Timothy Anderson-Bowen CPO Zach Walsh & Lafayette Crawford for all their had work and dedication to this mission.

Thanks, Farmers!

As one of those actually in the picture... Farmers has been a Outstanding through this entire journey! I was lucky enough to be able to do the Seed/Acquisition program and I am set to open my office this Friday! Huge thanks to District Manager #47, Ed Reed and Team with setting a huge goal, and being their the entire way!

Well done Lucas Buck and the Farmers team. It's nice to connect with you at our local events in Texas.

For the first time in recent memory, we are seeing veteran unemployment rates plunge.
In the past, the vet unemploment rate exceeded the non veteran unemployment rate by a healthy margin.

Now, because of companies like Farmers and the efforts of those individuals, a sustainable difference is being made. Kudos!

Nice to see a truly vet friendly company!

Awesome Capt Brandon Charters

Let me tell you, being a insurance agent is tough! My brother was a Farmers agent here in SoCal, and with the population base here in LA County, you would think it would be easy...oh ...NO! Its not. He worked tremendous hours, little return, and if it wasn't for his wife becoming an "independent" agent (she had high risk auto), they could not make it. I visited and spent 20 days in the office with them prior to retirement. Could not be more impressed by their professionalism, but the hours? Complaints! Griping! Emergency night calls! Oh..man. One day a huge guy wearing all black leather, chains, pit helmet under his arm, and probably 280 lbs of mean walked into the office, swearing at my bro's wife (she was the office clerk) pounding the counter demanding to know why they had cancelled his insurance...really pissed off. I stood up to help him out the door, my bro stopped me saying; "Charlie! Let me handle this." (quietly) I said; "Jim you can't handle this guy, I can but you have no training." He said; "This is my work, it's what I do."

So, I backed off ready to run over to help. Jim walked over, calm, quiet, apologetic, and in less then 5 minutes had that guy signing a new contract, collected 2,000 in cash and the guy walked out after shaking his hand. Holy Smoothies (being nice here), lol.

I asked him what in the heck did you do? He said, "I lied". I told him the "company" dumped him, I would help him get insurance and signed him up with another high risk policy. That puts 900 in my pocket immediately and the company gets the rest. .... how could I get mad at someone who pays me 900 for 5 minutes work?

If you become an insurance agent, its a job, but many make it by networking, long hours, and basically, having the same work ethic as the military.

Good to see supportive employers!