Shelley Billinghurst isn't trying to disrupt recruitment for the insurance industry but she might disrupt how insurance approaches finding great talent. As the President and founder of Hire Value Shelley has some insights about the insurance industry and it's talent attraction practices that are long overdue to be heard.

In this episode:

• Why insurance career ads are like bland drapes to good talent
• How hiring software stifles great talent identification
• Why saying you have a great culture really doesn't say much at all
• When allowing expression becomes the most important part of your brand
• How to promote your brand and not the bland

As a fellow podcaster Shelley is a great speaker and and provides an entertaining look at how insurance lags and why the results prove it and what can be done to change those results, if you date.

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Reinsurance seems to be spoken about but still largely misunderstood. Gavin Lillywhite, SVP with Xceedance pulls back the curtain and explains how reinsurance is evolving and the role it plays. With reinsurers being far more aggressively focused with their capacity and finding new opportunities for distribution, Gavin explores what the industry is asking for and how those requests are being answered.

In this episode:

• How the underwriting behind reinsurance is evolving and modernizing
• Why reinsurers are leveraging new data for growth
• Where new services and insights are required to sustain profitiballity
• How reinsurance shapes capacity through the distribution channel
• Why AI is also a tool at the highest levels and where it's impact is seen

Gavin has a great many years of experience but more importantly he can address new issues and problems without losing the lens of the past the lessons that sometimes seem forgotten.

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Smythe LLP has been producing a P&C brokerage report for a number of years so we had Alex Wong, Partner in Advisory Services, talk about the data and answer a few questions about the state of the brokerage industry last year.

In this episode:

• What are the fears most brokers have?
• How are the trends driving change and where?
• Will consolidation continue and how?
• Where are the growth opportunities?
• What do brokers need to do to keep having sucess?
• How will technology impact the future of the channel?

It's never easy to be honest and up front about an industry that is changing so fast, but Alex lays out the facts and backs it up with data and his own experience advising companies.

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