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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.

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!