Author: Great Insurance Jobs

This year’s job fair at the Amway Center on November 16, 2018, from 11 am until 3 pm promises to showcase some of Central Florida’s top employers.

I attended the TATECH Conference which bought together job boards, technology companies, recruitment marketing agencies and talent acquisition managers from around the world. Here are a few of the categories and products that I thought were interesting.

The day of the phone call or email for the initial reach out to a job seeker is over. With a 97% open rate, you know when you text someone, they will look at it within seconds and respond.

Most cover letters are poorly written or even nonexistent. As a job seeker, this has to change if you want to get a great job.

You already know why you turn so many applicants away. "Not qualified" or "horrible resume." But maybe the job seeker is saying the same about your job posting.

It's no secret that the talent in the industry is old and needs to be replaced in the next few years. So, we asked companies what they are doing about to recruit great people to the insurance industry.

We ask employers for their hiring challenges. Understanding these can help you in your job search. 

The 2018 Insurance Industry Employment and Hiring Outlook Survey showcases record hiring in the insurance industry, but a slew of challenges insurance employers are facing to fill jobs.

Question: As a claims professional, how important is my LinkedIn profile during a job search?

Your career brand has to paint a picture so that high caliber candidates can see themselves working for your company. How is this done? Here are my suggestions:

Quite frankly, many just interview poorly. This is due to a lot of reasons, but believe it or not, being nervous is NOT the reason you didn’t get the job.

With unemployment under 2% in the insurance industry, you would think that there are no qualified job seekers left to fill your company's open positions. However, this is just not the case.

2018 will be your time to STRIKE to forward your career goals and financial outlook. Are you ready? If so, here are some questions to consider...

As an employer today, you have thousands of choices from numerous vendors on where, why, and how to make sure your job posting gets in front of its intended target audience. But to really power your hard-to-fill jobs, here are four things you should do...

If you like to work with numbers, projections, and forecasts, a job as an insurance actuary may be the ideal career choice for you.

A great job search strategy all starts with the resume and if you are like most insurance professionals, you may think your resume is awesome. I can tell you without hesitation that over 70% of these resumes need a ton of work to be optimized. 

Due to Hurricane Harvey and the incoming Hurricane Irma, there is a huge demand for Catastrophe Claims Adjusters in Texas and Florida.

Your resume is your golden ticket to the interview. After reviewing 523 resumes, I am able to tell you why job seekers didn’t get to the interview stage. Here is a list of resume and communication errors that drive me crazy...

A zombie career site will not get applications. However, if you can redesign your site and focus it on hitting your target candidate, you will see more qualified applications than ever before.

It is no secret that the average age in the insurance industry is 59. So how would you solve the retirement issue?  Here is what some of your peers told us they would do:

If you are looking for a job or to change jobs in the insurance industry, this list of hiring challenges employers face can really help you get the job you really want.

We are very excited to release the 2017 Insurance Industry Employment Survey.  Its main purpose is to get a real, inside look on what is going on with jobs and hiring in the national insurance industry.

The 2017 Insurance Industry Employment and Hiring Outlook Survey released today by GreatInsuranceJobs.com, showcases another banner year for hiring in insurance, but also a technological revolution starting to already change career paths.

Recruiting is a sport.  Companies who are in the “top echelon league” (Google, Facebook, Disney, etc.), with tremendous social following and national notoriety, have very successful social media recruiting strategies to find great talent.

Fake news is becoming a huge thing today in America.  If you hear a news story, there is a chance that it may not be true; especially in the political world.

So much has changed in the job board world in the last three years.  In the last “War for Talent” during 2005-2008, Monster and Career Builder were running thirty second Super Bowl commercials costing millions.

If you are engaged in a job search and sending out numerous resumes and applications without hearing anything back from the employer, you are not alone.

Over the last twenty-five years so much has changed on the way people get jobs.  One question I get from insurance underwriters, claims adjusters and risk managers at conferences...

Talent acquisition conferences always seem to have a topic or two that sometimes overtakes the conference.  Remember the numerous sessions on the power of the internet, employment branding, and social media recruiting? 

If you are a member of LinkedIn, you already know how this site can be a very valuable resource especially during a job search.  LinkedIn is really a large public resume database that gives recruiters and companies looking for talent an organized place to find your credentials.

Twitter is a very interesting social media tool.  Every second, there are 6,000 tweets. That means there is 500 million per day and 200 billion a year!

Last week, the TATech Conference  hosted at the Palms Resort Las Vegas was packed with talent acquisition leaders, TA technology providers, and global employment branding agencies.

Harvard Business Review just completed a study that explores if chit chat before the formal interview influences the interview itself. 

Last month, we talked about job titles and how they really can make an impact to get the more passive candidate to click and take a look at what you have to offer...

I have been doing a lot of interviewing lately.  One thing that really amazes me is job seekers who apply to open jobs don’t understand this very simple concept.