talent gap Archives - Carrier Management

Executive Viewpoint: Key Strategies to Attract NextGen Talent to the Insurance Industry

Two of the most critical talent issues facing insurance companies are recruitment and retention. Retention is essential for controlling costs, sustaining company culture ...

Work-From-Home Has Spurred Career Shift Among Blue-Collar Americans

The pandemic shift to working at home has spurred blue-collar Americans—who've largely been left out of that trend—to seek a career change. A new study by the Oliver Wyman Forum found that the ...

How Carriers Can Fix Their Hiring Processes

Are you struggling to find and retain top performers? Are your employee engagement and productivity rates not as high as you'd like? Are you concerned that you're not attracting enough diversity ...

Two Smart Solutions to Help Confront the Industry’s Talent Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has left the insurance industry's longstanding talent crisis with new challenges—and fresh opportunities. Before the pandemic, carriers were concerned about a wave of baby ...

How One University Aims to Solve Insurance Industry Talent and Diversity Problems

As purveyors of talent for the insurance industry, universities offering risk management and insurance programs need to bring a more diverse group of job candidates forward to hiring professionals, ...

Reinventing the Workforce

More workers are seeking—and gaining—remote work. In fact, the level to which today's employees are working remotely has grown exponentially. Global Workplace Analytics data reveals that the ...

Talent Gap Pushes Insurance Companies to Evaluate Diversity Initiatives

Expectations for the work environment are changing as new generations enter the workforce, and as a result, insurance companies are facing increased pressure to evaluate their focus on diversity and ...

The Talent Gap Opportunity

There surely is a talent gap in the insurance industry, as direct industry competitors and companies in non-insurance sectors vie to bring on—and keep—people with technology and change management ...

Carrier Management Q&A: Hiring and Managing Talent to Spark Imagination

While technology is becoming more affordable, an innovation ingredient that some P/C insurers and reinsurers lack is imagination, according to an industry analyst. Creativity starts with human ...

Solving Our Talent Shortage

It is a commonly held belief that there is a talent shortage in our industry. The best and brightest recruits, it is often said, pursue careers in more exciting professions like investment banking, ...