Life Quotes, Inc. of Darien, a 26 year-old national insurance broker rated A+ with the Better Business Bureau, is now interviewing for part-time customer service and general office workers who are perky, articulate, detailed, well-groomed, friendly to work with and good with MS Word, Excel and telephone skills.

In this job you will be helping us to sort, process and service life insurance applicants. You’ll also interact with customers to obtain needed information or to give scripted advice.

The needs and wants of the customer will come first in everything that you do.

Good phone skills and attention to detail are essential.

Starting pay is $10 per hour and we offer flexible hours from 10 to 33 hours per week. Dress code is causal, but the job is very fast-paced with lots of staff and customer interaction.

Insurance agency experience is not required.

Life Quotes, Inc. is a national insurance broker with 100 employees. We are a safe, secure, 26 year-old company that has lots of capital and no debt.

Rapid advancement into full-time and higher earnings is possible if you are a true self-starter with sharp job skills to match.

Our Basic Requirements:

• Must have no history of criminal conviction, no current bankruptcy, current bad debts, current overdue bills or any pending court dates
• Must be able to pass general reading, writing, math, typing and customer service skills tests pre-hire

New business is strong at Life Quotes and insurance on the Internet is booming and just getting started!

This is a fast-paced position of high responsibility in an e-commerce company. You will help us design, build and maintain all major software projects needed to support www.lifequotes.com, our #1 rated life insurance website.

Do your career a favor; come help us take Life Quotes, Inc. to the next level. Insurance on the Internet is booming - and just getting started!

Life Quotes is a comprehensive, online consumer insurance information service that caters to the needs of self-directed insurance shoppers. We provide a comprehensive array of comparative auto, life and health quotes, including a vast library of originally authored insurance articles and decision-making tools that are not available from any other single source.

We’ve brought a radical, pro-consumer insurance business plan to market. We’re ranked #1 life insurance site by Forbes.com for 3 years running! We’re privately held with lots of capital and no debt. Insurance on the Internet is just getting started.

Come make insurance history with us in a positive way!

This position entails typically a 45-50 hr. work week with some evenings and weekends when needed. Work from home may be possible for the right candidate with the right background.

Your negotiated starting pay plan (up to $95,000) will depend upon your background of achievements in light of our mutual going-forward goals. We’re anxious to meet you and to get to know you.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Writes, tests, and maintains java based applications that support our website and CRM.
• Manage and execute timely completion of IT service requests and technical projects as determined and planned by senior management.
• Analyzes, reviews, and rewrites programs to increase operating efficiency or to adapt program to new requirements.
• Due to the fact that we are a small business with big goals, you will be asked at times for you to perform other technical duties outside of your core essential duties. A flexible and friendly generalist is worth more to us than a genius-specialist.
• These duties are to be performed to the best of your abilities with recognition that you may not be an expert in this area and you may have to learn new skills.

"The best Web site I’ve found..." - The Dallas Morning News

Job Requirements

• Must have 4-year Computer Science degree or related field.
• Expert in multiple platforms with special understandings of: JAVA, JSP, JAVA Servlets, JAVA Beans, JAVA Scripts, HTML, DHTML, XML, Struts, Hibernate, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Eclipse, CVS, Windows Server, LINUX.
• Must have minimum of 2 years OO design pattern experience.
• 2 or more years experience with hands-on web design and real-time transaction systems.
• Proven communication, organizational and software development life cycle skills.
• Must be able to fully document software designs both from a technical and user perspective.
• Full understanding of industry standard best practices.
• Knowledge of hardware, networking, internet programming and software options for an IT system.
• Take on special projects that might require additional time outside the 45 hours per week.
• Sorry, we cannot hire anybody with a financial or violence-related conviction history.

How to Respond
If you are interested in this position, click on Apply Now (above) or email your resume to Robin Ivaska: rivaska@lifequotes.com.

"...outstanding - as good as a Web site on insurance can possibly be. Hats off and a gold star to the top insurance site on the Web." -- Insurance for Dummies