Insurance agents who are also called insurance sales agents, and their main objective is to help the clients to get reasonable insurance policies that are met to their budget, and coverage standards, and needs. The clients include many types of people from a single person to a whole business, and families. There are two types of insurance agents that are there for the people. The first is an independent insurance agent that represents multiple insurance companies and all their products. Then there are the captive agents that do work for one company and one only. Then what they give you in insurance coverage is in case of a major casualty, life, health, disability, and long term care for the one who need it. Many of the insurance agents sell other securities like mutual funds, and variable annuities and more like these. The employment in 2008 was 43,500 yearly that was a good number for them. The employers look for many things in the insurance agents. They look for things like a college degree in business, and economics. They might consider hiring a high school graduate if he has proven he can do this job good and keep the business running. Every state requires the agent to have a state license to sell insurance. The state requires a separate license to sell home and casualty insurance, or health and life insurance. In many states they require the person getting the license for selling insurance to go through a course and an exam at the end. Those business experts are thinking that the insurance agent jobs are going to up through 2018. They also know that the multi-lingual persons are going to be higher candidates in the jobs. They also think that the ones who know a lot about business, and legal terms are going to be higher for the job candidacy. That is the present time of the insurance agent, and the hopeful future.