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The Underwriting Staffing Challenge: Recruitment Strategies for a Vanishing Talent Pool
The war for talent has hit the insurance industry with incredible force. Having weathered the recent "Great Recession" with its record unemployment rates, company downsizings and mass professional ...
About the Carrier Management/Jacobson Survey
While there have been many studies of succession planning, the Carrier Management/Jacobson Group survey is the only one to focus exclusively on P/C insurers, making it a valuable benchmarking ...
Strategy Is a Missing Piece of Many Carrier Succession Plans: Survey
Nearly 60 percent of property/casualty insurers do not have written CEO succession plans in place, Carrier Management and The Jacobson Group found in a recent survey of CEOs, board members and ...
Written CEO Succession Plans Lacking Among P/C Insurers: Research
More than half of property/casualty insurers do not have written CEO succession plans in place, and for nearly three-quarters, there is no board committee to identify desired skills for the next top ...
P/C Insurance is ‘Hottest’ Hiring Market in Years: Labor Study
Driven by optimistic expectations about market-share growth, property/casualty insurers are hiring talent at the fastest clip in years, according to results of a recent labor study revealing that ...
Who Will Be Your Next Leader?
When Sally Smith became the chief executive officer of Buffalo Wild Wings in 1996, it wasn't exactly a planned event. According to Smith's account published in the New York Times (as part of Adam ...
Take Our P/C Carrier CEO Succession Planning Survey
If your company had to select a chief executive officer successor within the next six months, would that person be someone almost exactly like the current CEO? Is your company developing internal ...