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Who’s getting squeezed in the brokers’ war for talent

March 19, 2024 by David Gambrill

A war for talent in Canada’s P&C insurance industry may be inadvertently causing collateral damage in smaller and mid-sized brokers, Traci Boland, Insurance Broker Association of Canada president, tells Canadian Underwriter. That said, their smaller size may allow them to

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How industry professionals are tackling talent recruitment

February 28, 2024 by Jason Contant

Canada’s P&C insurance industry is looking at everything from career fast-track programs to scholarships and student involvement programs to handle talent recruitment challenges. Recruitment has long been an industry challenge. In late January, the Insurance Institute of Canada, the industry’s

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P&C insurance industry launches collective recruitment effort

January 25, 2024 by David Gambrill

Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry has launched a collaborative, industry-wide recruitment effort dubbed Project Reframe. Announced by the Insurance Institute of Canada (IIC) Monday, the public education campaign aims to portray the insurance industry as an engaging, dynamic, and

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How firms are training tomorrow’s talent

January 8, 2024 Alyssa Di Sabatino

Intermediate and senior underwriting positions are opening up across the industry. That has firms looking for ways to cultivate junior underwriters into successive roles. The issue, though, is that learning curves can be steep for new hires. Up-and-coming underwriters are

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Why you should use consumer advertising to recruit talent

December 4, 2023 by Jason Contant

Canadian P&C insurance industry companies may want to consider leveraging existing consumer advertising tactics, including social media channels like TikTok, and apply them to recruitment efforts. It’s no secret the industry continues to face a ‘war for talent,’ particularly as

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Make sure your talent recruiter is licensed — or else!

October 25, 2023 by David Gambrill

If your Ontario P&C business is using a recruiter or temporary staffing organization to find talent, make sure they’re licensed as of Jan. 1, 2024. Otherwise, you may be subject to a hefty fine in the New Year. As of

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Rebranding insurance: Tell recruits they’re changing the world

October 10, 2023 by David Gambrill

Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry needs rebranding to attract talent, and that may mean dropping the word “insurance” from recruitment messaging, delegates attending the National Insurance Conference of Canada (NICC) heard in late September. For consumers, “insurance” may carry

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Poaching: Inside the industry’s cutthroat war for talent

September 13, 2023 by David Gambrill

Recruiting into the P&C insurance industry has become so urgent that employers are looking for “plug-and-play” hires who can hit the ground running, leading to widespread industry poaching. “What we’re seeing [in our demographic research], and we’ve seen it since

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Institute report shows P&C industry ‘hiding its light under a bushel’

June 1, 2023 by David Gambrill

Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry already scores well in many of the things industry employees say they want from their employers, as suggested in the latest results of the Insurance Institute of Canada’s 2022-23 demographics research report. And therefore,

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How to bring “boomerang employees” back into the fold

March 16, 2023 by David Gambrill

You know that star employee who left your organization a year ago? Now might be the time to ask them how it’s going and see if they might be interested in coming back, according to a blog post from Harvard

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Talent crunch getting tighter, broker survey shows

March 23, 2022 by David Gambrill

Finding qualified talent is the biggest challenge facing almost seven out 10 Canadian brokerages right now. And the talent crunch is getting even tighter. Sixty-nine per cent of brokers report finding qualified workers their biggest challenge – a 7% increase

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What’s the most successful way of seeking new P&C talent?

November 24, 2021 by Jason Contant

Personal referrals were the most successful method for seeking new talent in the property and casualty insurance industry, speakers agreed during an Insurance Institute of Ontario webinar Tuesday. An informal poll of attendees to the webinar asked which recruitment channels