Is the talent pool drying up?
Recruitment expert Stuart McKenna of HRC Recruitment explores the dearth of account handlers available to brokers.
It’s not too often you find an entire market, filled with competing companies, chasing the same thing. But that’s what is happening in insurance.
Since the turn of the year, we’ve had more than a dozen insurance brokers come to us looking for the same person. And, in a significant twist of events, that person doesn’t seem to exist - account handlers.
Of course, that’s not true: they are out there somewhere in the insurance world. But this curious case demonstrates one of the industry’s
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