I usually delete emails from inbox from insurance companies saying the found my resume online with an invitation to contact them for an exciting job interview. American Income Life actually called me. I thought to myself 'this is different, maybe they are different." What the hell - I decided to check it out. They called on Tuesday afternoon and wanted to see me on Wednesday morning for an interview "Session." I was told it would take about an hour. I arrived to a room full of applicants. After about a 15 minute wait as they whittled through those who arrived before me, I was called up by fairly non-professional looking young man. I mean, it looked like he was trying but there were some details with his appearance that gave him away as some one not too experienced with hiring. I was ushered into a small office that looked like a "loaner" office or a visitor workspace: desk, phone, random sheets of paper, two chairs. Walls were sparse. Door was dingy. The interviewer held what appeared to be a two-page script for interviewing however, he asked me two questions that I suspect were not on the sheets - he wrote down my answers in random locations on the page. He then explained to me that I would be sitting through an "interview" with a group where the head honcho would be answering 95% of all of my questions about the company and opportunity. I was then directed to a larger room where all the people who had disappeared from the lobby were now sitting. A few minutes later the presenter walked in. He was cordial and professional. He introduced himself to everybody. Asked a few questions. Handed out some notebooks and pens. Then he went right into a spiel that last just about 45 minutes. I won't lie - it was a good presentation - the guy has public speaking skills and charisma. I knew I couldn't go any further but at least the spiel was good. Ultimately I opted out of the process. I think if my situation were a little different, I might have been open to pushing it as far as I could have.

I was contacted by AIL via email for a few weeks and was eventually called directly. Over the phone they made it seem as though they sourced my resume looking for a Benefits Coordinator. I was pretty excited and set up an interview for 2 days later. I later went online to search for the roles and responsibilities or possibly a job posting for Benefits Coordinator for AIL since I had never actually applied for the position. I must admit, since they are an insurance company, I was already pretty skeptical to begin with and was not surprised to come across many posts online about individuals being called in to interview for a Benefits Coordinator position believing they were being recruited for an HR position only to find out that they were being recruited for a sales position. With this in mind I called the branch back and asked to speak with someone who could give me a job description of the position of a Benefits Coordinator at AIL to make sure I was interviewing for a position that I was actually interested in rather than wasting the time and energy to interview for a position that I did not have an interest in. The HR representative refused to give me an overview of the job, ducking and dodging my questions the entire time encouraging me to ask these questions at the interview. When I asked if there was an online job posting for the position that I could look over, I was directed to a website that essentially showed me that the only positions available at this office were sales related positions but could not find anything on a Benefits Coordinator position. I then asked, again, if someone could just give me a quick overview just so I would know whether or not I was spending my time trying to attain a job that fit my career goals and at this point the representative promptly declared "it does not seem as though you are the type of person that would fit in our environment, I wish you the best of luck on your career search" and hung up on me. The fact that I never applied for this position, had genuine questions about a position I was to be interviewed for, was ducked and dodged on every question I asked, and was treated that way by the recruiter lets me know that this call is a scam. They are not hiring a benefits coordinator in the HR sense but are calling their sales people Benefits Coordinators in order to attempt to lure in people and tempt them with the potential of "unlimited income". I would say be very skeptical if you receive this phone call and make sure the position you think you are interviewing for is actually the position you are to be interviewing for.