Experienced Surety Professionals—Advance Your Surety Skills
Enhance your surety career by learning even more about surety. Attending the NASBP Surety School, which has classes for new and for advanced surety professionals, or taking one of the NASBP online courses can help you achieve your career goals.
- NASBP Surety School
- NASBP Continuing Education Online Courses
NASBP members who are advanced in their careers and those who are just starting out offer advice to other surety professionals in the following NASBP articles:
- Strategies for Surety Success—A three-part NASBP Surety Bond Quarterly series that features NASBP bond producers sharing their surety industry wisdom and tips for success.
- Extending the Value of Surety—NASBP's 5-15 Committee Trains New Industry Leaders—This NASBP Surety Bond Quarterly article features practicing NASBP bond producers describing the benefits of serving on the 5-15 Leadership Committee.
- A Lesson from Christmas Past—This NASBP Pipeline article offers a timely reminder of the importance for bond producers of understanding a business and the motivations of the people who own and run it.
NASBP Virtual Seminars provide need-to-know information from leaders in the surety industry. These webinars cover a range of topics important to surety professionals. The full library of NASBP Virtual Seminars is searchable to find the topics you want to know more about. Review the full catalog to find topics that interest you.
Consider obtaining credentials like the AFSB®, CPCU, and the CCIFP
These additional credentials can help you gain skills to further your surety career.
- Learn about surety bond underwriting practices and strategies to develop and maintain a profitable book of business by obtaining the Associate in Fidelity and Surety Bonding (AFSB®) credential. Listen to this NASBP "Let's Get Surety" Podcast episode, "Discussing the AFSB Designation," for more information.
- Gain strategic leadership skills while learning to manage risk with the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) credential.
- Grow your knowledge of construction financial management and gain deeper insights into your contractor clients' businesses with the Certified Construction Industry Financial Professional (CCIFP) designation. Learn more about the CCIFP designation in this NASBP Surety Bond Quarterly magazine article and this NASBP Podcast episode.
NASBP Let's Get Surety® Podcast
"Let's Get Surety" offers a look into the world of surety with episodes focusing on surety careers, leadership, starting your own agency, and much more. Below are some selected episodes, plus a Podcast player that you can scroll through Podcast episodes to listen to them all!
The Great Resignation and Combating Burnout - This episode offers tips to fight burnout, in ourselves, our teams, and our clients.
Lean into Leadership Series: Talking Surety with the 5-15—Discussions with young leaders in the surety industry
Part 1 - current and former NASBP 5-15 Leadership Committee chairs discuss their experiences as members.
Part 2 - 5-15 Committee members discuss starting their own agencies
Part 3 - 5-15 Committee members share what they see on the road ahead for surety
Part 4 - Members talk about the importance of networking and their involvement in NASBP
Employers, 25% Off Job Postings to Career Center
Did you plan to hire new staff this year? Remind your hiring staff to post your firm's open jobs at the NASBP Career Center to gain immediate access to industry resumes. As a special incentive, NASBP is offering a 25%-off discount for posting a job to the NASBP Career Center with use of the promotion code: 25OFF2016 when prompted. This offer expires July 31, 2016.