Author: Great Insurance Jobs

Here are just some of the up-and-coming cities for insurance jobs to keep your eye on.

In our annual survey of job seekers, the number one complaint is that after applying to jobs, they never hear a peep from the employer on their status except an automated email.  This certainly is not breaking news.

Here’s a quick look at some of the different types of claims jobs for your insurance career.

You heard it hear it here first.  In the next couple years, your resume will only be one half of a page.

They’re young, healthy, and busy planning their futures, but how many millennials are even thinking about insurance?

The insurance industry is full of great jobs.  Jobs in claims, underwriting, loss control, customer service, actuarial, technology and many other areas are available. 

I have always told job seekers that if you can find a hiring manager at a company you want to work for who is active on Twitter, you hit a homerun.

Whether you are new to GreatInuranceJobs.com or a longtime user of the website, it’s hard to believe we turned 15 years old on June 6, 2016.

It’s seems like just yesterday that we started GreatInsuranceJobs.com the year.  To put it in perspective, we started the same year as Wikipedia and also the introduction of the iPod (remember that!).

The insurance industry will be losing 25% of its workforce through 2018. The primary reason? A retiring workforce.

Here are few challenges insurance companies are facing today, and what this means for you when you are looking for a job

When we heard that Prince died last week, most people went right to the internet to get more information.  If you Google “Prince Death” in news, you will find numerous articles about this subject.

Many job seekers leave interviews thinking they did a great job and just to find out they didn’t get the job.  It may have happened to you.

For the last 8 years, we have been calling insurance companies and asking them to give us some insight on the jobs they have open, their future hiring plans and what challenges they have through the hiring process. In 2015, the insurance industry saw a record number of employees (over 2.5 million) and continues to have one of the lowest unemployment rate in any sector (2.3%).

The insurance industry is set for another a huge hiring year, according to a report out today from GreatInsuranceJobs.com. With 91% of companies with current open jobs and a nearly across-the-board (98%) plan to hire at least one person in 2016, the employment market in insurance remains very strong. Going beyond the Bureau of Labor and Statistics numbers, this report offers real insight into the state of the insurance industry.

We just released the 2016 Insurance Industry Survey. We talked directly to over 70 companies and uncovered some fantastic information that will help insurance employers get a real picture of what is going on in their quest to find great insurance talent.

If you’re tired of your current job and are on the lookout for more opportunities, consider a job in insurance sales. The insurance industry is evolving and growing at a rapid pace so there is an ongoing demand for highly trained sales representatives, managers, and independent business professionals. Even if you don’t have a strong sales background, you’ll find it relatively easy to learn basic skills and knowledge to pave your way to success in this industry.

If you've been exploring careers in the insurance industry, you may have considered work as an insurance broker or insurance agent. The Insurance Information Institute reports 2,467,000 people were employed in the insurance industry in 2014 and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a high job growth rate of 9% for insurance sales agents through 2024. Working as an insurance broker or agent can be personally and financially rewarding.

Now that the job market is flooded with more part-time work than ever before, finding a full-time job has never been more difficult. And according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report, nearly two in 10 U.S. workers are part-time—significantly higher than pre-recession levels. So unless your full-time job search strategy involves building a time machine to the pre-recession era, your best option is to focus on the next full-time opportunity available in your company.

My checklist for first impressions is very simple and it should be. When interviewing, so many spend time trying to memorize canned answers to questions like, “tell me about your greatest weakness?” Sure you need to be prepared but make sure that you do a great job with your first impression. It will make the rest of the interview go much smoother.

We have all heard the saying "always the bride's maid, but never the bride. It is a sad, old cliché, yet for some candidates interviewing for a job, it may seem like the norm for them in the interviewing process as they always make it to the final interview, but are passed over for another candidate who has that "something extra."

Bring back the recession! For recruiters and human resource departments, the recession made any resource you used to find talent the “best thing ever”. Sure, you didn’t have many openings and millions of great people were unemployed and looking for work. In addition, your internal referrals were at an all-time high. You were able to save money by cutting out many of your recruiting tools.

The unemployment rate in the insurance industry hovers around 2%. When an insurance company needs to hire, they usually have a “go to” procedure that takes the job requisition and posts it to their company website as well as employment sites like GreatInsuranceJobs.com. Copy and paste is still the preferred way to post these jobs that have job titles and descriptions most likely created years ago.

Last month’s article was “Should I Write My own Resume?” This month, I am going to answer that question. No. Never. No matter what. Even if you only have year or fifty years of experience.

With over 2.5 million people (all-time record) now working in the insurance industry, finding great talent is extremely difficult in 2015. In our 2015 Insurance Industry Employment Outlook, employers recruiting insurance talent openly shared very candid recruiting challenges they are experiencing.

In totality, the GreatInsuranceJobs.com Employment Outlook for 2015 found 7,262 jobs currently open at the 78 companies within their survey. Another 15,354 jobs were predicted by the hiring managers for those companies during the remaining three quarters of 2015.