Recruitment
Aon’s Thelwell on ensuring quality and support for UK businesses
View from the Top: Joe Thelwell, UK head of SME at Aon, outlines how the sector can usher small and medium-sized businesses through heightened volatility.
Brokers want less AI conversation and better service please
Fiona Nicolson reveals brokers want a little less conversation about artificial intelligence and to have a lot more grown-up conversation about balancing online experiences with being able to talk to an insurer's staff at this year’s British Insurance…
Big Interview: Tara Foley, Axa
Tara Foley, CEO of Axa UK & Ireland, outlines how the business can now do intraday pricing, shares the provider’s growth plans, and reveals how artificial intelligence is changing ways of working at the insurer.
Construction adjuster builds out with London team
Specialist Lines, a niche construction and engineering loss adjusting firm headquartered in Bury, has launched a new London Market and International division with the recruitment of a team from Global Risk Solutions International.
Insurers' struggle to fill job vacancies laid bare
Data analysis: The extent to which insurance is an experienced employee’s, rather than an employer’s, is laid bare by recruitment adverts posted at the start of this year.
How to win the war for insurance talent
Iffi Wahla, CEO and co-founder at global hiring platform Edge, looks at the recruiting challenges facing insurance firms today, the impact this is having on the industry, and how firms can better bolster their ranks.
Biba’s Trudgill on attracting fresh talent to insurance
Trade Voice: Graeme Trudgill, CEO of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association, reports on the body’s efforts to pitch a career in insurance to school pupils.
Gain’s McGee on bridging the talent gap with neurodiverse talent
Trade Voice: Francis McGee, executive chair of the Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity, or Gain, how becoming more neuroinclusive can help tackle one of the industry’s perennial challenges.
Q&A: Aviva’s Ryan Birbeck and Michael Yabantu
Aviva’s Michael Yabantu, managing director of mid-market, and Ryan Birbeck, broker and client development director, sit down with Insurance Post to talk about the internal changes Aviva has made to make access easier for brokers, what product lines it…
How women are smashing insurance’s glass ceilings
Ahead of International Women’s Day (8 March), Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes examines how glass ceilings in insurance are being smashed and whether presenteeism rearing its ugly head could stunt further female progress in the industry.
Diary of an Insurer: Allianz’s Felix Wong
Felix Wong, diversity and inclusion consultant at Allianz, draws parallels between Disney Plus’s ‘The Bear’ and the insurance industry as he works to make the sector more inclusive for colleagues and customers.
Lloyd’s DEI role model Erik Johnson
Last year, Lloyd’s commissioned Franklyn Rodgers to create six portraits of diverse role models, and over the coming weeks, we will feature them all. The penultimate spotlight is on Erik Johnson, a founding board member of Inclusion@Lloyd’s.
Q&A: Stuart Kilpatrick, Burns & Wilcox
Stuart Kilpatrick, managing director of Burns & Wilcox UK, tells Insurance Post about the post-Biba conference pivot the business has undertaken, plans to create a specialist business in the UK, and how it "doesn't matter” where his staff work.
Lloyd’s DEI role model: David Flint
Last year, Lloyd’s commissioned Franklyn Rodgers to create six portraits of diverse role models and over the coming weeks we will feature them all with today’s spotlight on the ambassador of the Lloyd’s Football Club and CEO of Blue Mountain Capacity…
How Tupe is transforming insurance’s talent pool
Shaun Geils, global head of insurance at services group IQ-EQ, on the opportunity to reskill the sector and how lifting out and absorbing teams means firms can retain access to their existing crop of talent.
Cyborg CROs with place at top table are needed
Data analysis: Insurers where chief risk officers, supported by artificial intelligence, have a seat at the top table are most likely to succeed over the next decade, according to a report by consultancy LCP.
Q&A: Hannah Tindal, Allianz
Hannah Tindal, Allianz’s head of directors and officers in London, talks about how the insurer is dealing with risks highlighted by the Allianz Risk Barometer from a liability perspective.
How new working rules will transform the insurance industry
Frances Stebbing explores what new rules being introduced for flexible working in mid-2024 mean for the way the insurance industry operates.
Biba’s school initiative ‘trailblazer’ for supporting under-privileged students
Participating schools have praised the British Insurance Brokers’ Association programme for “shaping the future of education and careers” for young people.
Recruitment challenges leaves a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the industry
Davies has shared concerns that the apprenticeship levy is not being fully used, which is leaving the industry short of fresh talent.
Biba teams up with two schools to attract talent
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association has launched a programme to boost diversity and raise awareness of the variety of careers in insurance.