Describe your role at Aon
My role involves liaising with insurers and clients/retail teams, handling administrative tasks, assessing risks, linking new clients with insurance companies……the list goes on!
What skills are useful in your role?
Written and verbal communication, the way you say things and what you say is very important as it can be interpretated by others differently. Knowing how to be clear is key, even if you don’t understand, communicate that!
What do you find most rewarding and most challenging about your role?
It’s rewarding to satisfy my client’s needs and being able to help beyond their needs. The most challenging would be that as a black woman, I sometimes feel like I must do a lot more, almost overcompensate for being different.
Outside of your day-to-day role, are you involved in any extracurricular activities at Aon?
I play for Aon netball team and support with different networking events.
What three top tips would you give your fellow Bright Network members wanting to follow in your footsteps?
- Be yourself, be kind and be personable.
- You don’t have to know everything about insurance, but you need a willingness to learn. And transferrable skills are valuable.
- Enjoy the process, that’s something I can say I did! It helps you not to feel so tense about your failures or setbacks and to see everything as an opportunity to learn.