This blog post introduces how to effectively incorporate insurance product management and practical experience into your resume.
My Background
“Don’t focus on the missing 2; become someone who sees the remaining 98.”
This was something my father often told me when I was young. It meant to always be a positive person. But I took it as just common advice. The idea that you should live positively is something you hear everywhere, and I thought my father was just saying it offhand.
Then, as a high schooler, my thoughts multiplied, and worries about my career and future began to pile up. One day, my father quietly sat me down for a serious conversation. That day, he spoke to me about the attitude toward life, the perspective on life.
My father ran his own business for a long time. Working as a technician, he constantly pondered the direction of his business, and some days, he would look lost. After over 20 years of working hands-on in the field, he said he had gained insights through experience. He shared his story, hoping I wouldn’t have to go through the same trials and errors he did.
“Once you start worrying, the whole world starts looking like a worry.”
That statement really struck me. I’ve actually experienced that myself. When one worry arises, another concern pops up before the first is resolved. Before you know it, even though nothing has actually happened, everything feels somehow unsettling. From that moment on, the problems facing me seem like special, extraordinary suffering, and I gradually sink into darker thoughts.
But if you just broaden your perspective and look objectively, you realize your problems aren’t that special. Often, they’re even minor worries compared to others’. Yet people often get trapped in their own emotions and logic, deluding themselves into thinking ‘only I am suffering this pain’. Ultimately, they become ensnared in pessimistic thinking, leading to increasing self-isolation.
That’s why my father said, “Don’t overinterpret the missing 2; become someone who sees the remaining 98.” It meant not to interpret reality only negatively as it is, but to cultivate a perspective that discovers and appreciates the positive aspects already present in life. Those words weren’t just simple advice; they were a heartfelt lesson born from my father’s own life.
After that day, I resolved to treat my father’s words not merely as a virtue, but as a guiding principle for living. It’s often challenging, but I consciously strive to maintain a positive perspective. The tougher the situation, the more I focus on what I already have rather than what I lack. To become someone who sees potential over deficiency, learning over hardship, and hope over anxiety, I live each day with my father’s words etched in my heart.
College Years
“An experience of pursuing innovation without fearing change”
During college, I balanced my major studies with activities in a webzine club. While focusing on theoretical studies in finance and economics, I gained practical experience planning and producing content through the club. My club primarily focused on compiling its own webzine. Throughout the process of directly planning and structuring diverse content, I handled the entire workflow—from reporting and interviews to editing and publishing. However, as a newly established club, content production and operational procedures weren’t systematically organized, and members often struggled to perform their roles consistently.
In this environment, I focused on helping build the club’s overall system rather than just fulfilling my assigned role. First, I created a manual outlining reporting techniques and article writing methods for members unfamiliar with writing articles. This resource helped new members adapt quickly and maintain a consistent level of content quality. Simultaneously, I reviewed the existing webzine structure, identified areas for improvement, and attempted to establish a new editorial direction. Throughout the production process, I continuously discussed and experimented with ways to reduce unnecessary procedures and diversify content themes and formats to create a more original webzine.
These changes and attempts were not possible through my efforts alone. Together with fellow members, we shared ideas, gathered opinions, and developed the club step by step. The most crucial attitude throughout this process was ‘a mindset that embraces change and pursues innovation.’ Previously, I had been accustomed to following established frameworks and handling tasks only in familiar ways. However, through club activities, I gained experience planning and executing unfamiliar processes, which finally allowed me to truly grasp the value of ‘change and innovation.’
The sense of accomplishment and fulfillment gained from jointly building an unfinished system became a precious asset to me. Even creating a single manual required considering members’ perspectives and refining it through trial and error—a challenging yet immensely meaningful process. Beyond merely producing content, the experience of collectively deliberating and acting to steer the organization toward improvement taught me invaluable lessons.
This experience will carry forward with me wherever I work in the future. If I sense a need for improvement in current work methods, I will not hesitate to propose reasonable alternatives and proactively move to create more efficient systems. An attitude unafraid of change and the execution power to turn innovation into reality are the most valuable assets I gained during my university years, and I will continue to practice that mindset.
Professional Experience
“Managing insurance products in the financial sector”
Although your company is a life insurance provider, my previous workplace was a bank, not an insurance company. I gained experience working as a fixed-term intern at a local post office bank. The fixed-term employment status and intern position created an environment with low job stability and significant uncertainty about the future. I wasn’t yet a full-time employee, and my responsibilities weren’t fixed to a single task, so I needed to proactively learn and master various areas. Although I majored in finance, I felt my practical experience in the field was lacking. Therefore, I approached my work with the mindset of learning step by step and growing steadily.
In practice, the task I handled most frequently was the administrative work of managing insurance products. While insurance products weren’t traditionally a core business at the Post Office Bank, the importance of selling insurance and financial products had been increasingly emphasized recently amid the trend toward privatization. Aligning with this shift, the Post Office Bank also placed greater importance on promotional activities and marketing strategies to secure customers, and this naturally expanded into the role of administrative staff. Within this trend, I too gained the opportunity to perform a more proactive role, going beyond simple administrative support.
Although I majored in finance, I lacked specialized knowledge in promotion or marketing. To perform related tasks efficiently, I sought out manuals and reference materials, learning step by step. Fundamentally, my duties involved organizing internal documents related to insurance products, recording customer consultation details, and delivering materials. However, I didn’t want to remain stuck in simple repetitive tasks; I sought meaning within them. As time passed, my knowledge of insurance and financial products gradually grew, and naturally, I developed a passion to apply that knowledge in practice.
Therefore, I sought to engage more proactively beyond my assigned scope. Collaborating with colleagues on product management tasks, I shared various ideas for streamlining workflows and even attempted to implement these through meetings into our operational processes. While our small efforts didn’t immediately lead to major innovations, I felt immense satisfaction whenever even a part of our improvement suggestions was reflected in actual operations.
Although I started as a non-regular intern, this experience—expanding my role within that position and growing steadily with a mindset of learning—holds meaning beyond mere career experience for me. It gave me confidence in understanding the essence of work and developing myself through practical tasks. This experience has equipped me with an attitude to approach any future organization flexibly and proactively.
Aspirations After Joining
“Aspiration to become an expert whose name trends online”
I possess a cautious and methodical personality. When I set a goal, I prefer to establish a systematic plan for achieving it rather than rushing headlong into it. I divide goal-setting into three main stages. The first is the ideal ultimate goal. Next comes a realistic intermediate goal, and finally, I set specific, immediately actionable objectives. This step-by-step approach, where I achieve goals one by one and move forward, demonstrates my diligence. Thus, I possess consistency and perseverance in planning and execution, which I believe forms the foundation for approaching work responsibly.
Allow me to introduce my dreams, goals, and the concrete plan for their realization. My ultimate ideal is to join an insurance company and grow into a top financial expert, becoming a recognized professional even externally. By external expert, I mean someone who transcends mere internal recognition, earning trust within the industry and among the public, someone influential enough to have their name appear in ‘person searches’. The practical step toward realizing this ideal goal is joining a specialized insurance company like yours to grow systematically. I aim not just to join, but to gain broad experience across diverse fields—insurance administration, sales, development, actuarial work—and systematically build my expertise as a professional.
The practical steps I am taking to execute this realistic goal are the various self-development activities I am currently undertaking. For instance, I am preparing to obtain my insurance actuary certification and am concurrently engaged in consistent study and practice to enhance my essential OA skills for administrative work. Through this process of systematically refining my capabilities, I can confidently state that I am growing into a prepared talent, not only in skill but also in attitude.
If your company grants me the opportunity to grow, I will demonstrate a proactive and diligent attitude, continuously challenging myself toward my ideals while growing alongside the organization. Guided by the belief that goals are achieved not through mere wishes but through concrete plans and action, I continue to advance step by step each day. I sincerely hope that your company will be the starting point of that journey.
