Advice for Employers

We just released the 2016 Insurance Industry Survey. We talked directly to over 70 companies and uncovered some fantastic information that will help insurance employers get a real picture of what is going on in their quest to find great insurance talent.

Companies want to grow, but many are experiencing the double whammy; longer time to fill new job requisitions as well as losing key employees to their competitors. 

How Benjamin Franklin pioneered the insurance industry in America.

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:

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.

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.

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? 

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!

Last week, the TATech Conference  hosted at the Palms Resort Las Vegas was packed with talent acquisition leaders, TA technology providers, and global employment branding agencies.

Last month, we talked about job titles and how they really can make an impact to get the more passive candidate to click and take a look at what you have to offer...

They’re young, healthy, and busy planning their futures, but how many millennials are even thinking about insurance?

It’s seems like just yesterday that we started GreatInsuranceJobs.com the year.  To put it in perspective, we started the same year as Wikipedia and also the introduction of the iPod (remember that!).

When we heard that Prince died last week, most people went right to the internet to get more information.  If you Google “Prince Death” in news, you will find numerous articles about this subject.

The RIMS 2016 Conference will take place April 10 to April 13, 2016, at the San Diego Convention Center. If you’re an industry professional or looking for job opportunities in this field, be sure to secure your ticket for this highly anticipated event.

According to from Bersin by Deloitte, US companies are spending an average of $4,000 in cost per hire in 2015. That is expensive especially when your hire doesn’t work out. It may be time to consider doing some blind interviewing.

If all companies and recruiters had one wish it would be to make all job seekers and job curious use only one exclusive job board when seeking employment. It used to be that way in the Sunday Newspaper classifieds before the internet. If your jobs were not in the Sunday paper, you would not ge...

According to Bersin & Associates, U.S. companies are spending and average of $3,500 per employee to just recruit them. While finding great talent is difficult, after over twenty years in the recruiting business, I think one of the main reasons this cost is so high is because employers are taking...

Bring back the recession! For recruiters and human resource departments, the recession made any resource you used to find talent the “best thing ever”. Sure, you didn’t have many openings and millions of great people were unemployed and looking for work. In addition, your internal referrals we...