Training
GAB Robins launches grad scheme
GAB Robins has launched a graduate scheme in collaboration with the Financial Skills Partnership.
Career development & CSR news: Financial services firms urged to claim fresh apprenticeship funding
Financial services employers have been urged to come forward and stake a claim for the new apprenticeship funding.
Career development: Business still looks bad in the insurance industry
A new report by the Chartered Management Institute has revealed that managers in the insurance sector fear a bleak and uncertain future. As the downturn continues to cast its shadow, optimism has collapsed and managers are questioning whether the…
Career development & CSR news: Home Let activity initiative
Home Let is trialling an initiative that allows employees to take one day's paid leave per annum to undertake community activities and projects in support of the Prince's Trust.
Career path & CSR: CII and FSSC sign agreement to boost industry skills strategy
The Chartered Insurance Institute is to advise the Financial Services Skills Council on skills and training in the general insurance sector, after the bodies signed a memorandum of understanding.
Career path & CSR: Barbon staff graduate with CMI diploma
Broker Barbon's 15 Big Management Programme employees have graduated, gaining their Chartered Management Institute diploma in management.
Round table - SMEs & charities: Here to inform and educate
The SME and charity sectors have been widely courted by brokers and insurers in recent years. However, questions still persist about whether these customers are having their needs properly met. With this in mind Post gathered together some industry…
In Series: Professionalism & CPD: Underscoring excellence
Professionalism has always been strong in the London market. Adrian Ballardie explains why it is now being reinvigorated.
In Series: Professionalism & CPD: The best of the best?
Lloyd's and the London market is tempting for graduates, with the potential of international business and a city base. But is there sufficient emphasis on formal career development? Rachel Gordon investigates.
Postbox: Insurance is innovative
It has been interesting to read the comments that have come out of this year's British Insurance Summit event —especially the opinions relating to the insurance sector and its inability to attract the best recruits. These ideas have also been echoed in…
Interview: Looking to the future
Jason Howard, chief executive officer at Willis Re International and Specialty, tells Katherine Blackler about how broking has changed for the better.
Talent: Mind the gap
Gordon Vater highlights the need for (re)insurance to beware of a looming recruitment crisis as experienced industry personnel edge toward retirement and graduates stampede towards better-known areas in financial services.
Talent: Shooting stars
Reinsurance uncovers the reasons behind the successes of some of the industry's brightest young things.
Career path & CSR news: Preparing for the abolition of the default retirement age
Earlier this summer, the government announced a consultation on the future of the default retirement age, proposing that it should be scrapped between April and October next year.
Career path & CSR news: Ecclesiastical academy wins development award
A training initiative run by insurer Ecclesiastical has won a development award from the Manchester Chartered Insurance Institute.
In series - Professionalism and CPD: The gold standard
Brokers have embraced the professional development mantra of producing highly skilled employees.
Career path & CSR news: Cunningham Lindsey picks five from 500
Cunningham Lindsey has picked five new trainees out of more than 500 applicants for the second year of its graduate recruitment programme. One of the graduates will be based in its agricultural property team while the rest will join the specialist…
Career path & CSR news: Crawford & Co sees first set of MBA graduates
The first cohort of 15 of its emerging leaders have now successfully graduated from Crawford & Company’s bespoke MBA programme. This group comprises eight from the UK and seven from the loss adjuster’s continental europe, Middle east and Africa area.
Career path & CSR news: Lloyd’s to recruit and train 50 claims professionals
Lloyd’s is set to invest in the recruitment and training of 50 claims professionals over the next five years.
Interview - Chris Humphries: Surmounting the UK skills challenge
The UK is falling behind on the production of high-skilled jobs, while the value of some degree courses is plummeting. Lynn Rouse talks to UKCES chief executive Chris Humphries about how best to reverse these trends.
Career development & CSR news: New cohort gets stuck into graduate training scheme
Six new graduates have started at Lloyd's, marking their first step into the insurance industry.
Skills boss advocates apprenticeship model
Insurance companies may be missing out on easy wins in terms of enhanced productivity and retention rates by failing to adequately consider the apprenticeship model. That is the view of Chris Humphries, chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment…
Career development & CSR news: Minty freshens up CII ethics training course
The Chartered Insurance Institute has launched an online ethics course for all Personal Finance Society and CII members in a drive for greater professionalism.
Career development & CSR news: LV to expand apprenticeship scheme
LV is set to extend its apprenticeship programme over the next 12 months, following the graduation of 50 staff.