Recruiting

Lloyd’s of London, the world’s largest insurance exchange, is pushing the industry to do better on diversity recruitment with tougher new hiring and disclosure targets for its members.

The hurdles faced by Black professionals who break into the financial services belie the notion that their small numbers at the industry’s top ranks are a pipeline problem.

Travelers' EVP and chief technology and operations officer Mojgan Lefebvre joins the show to discuss the company's tech priorities before, during, and after the pandemic; and how the company is keeping up its recruiting and onboarding of key tech talent during this crisis.

The free of charge Career Center will also provide a searchable database with candidate resumes focusing on insurtech roles.

Insurers across lines of business need staff that intuitively understand digital and personalization, says EY.

Liberal arts majors are trained to be creative communicators and critical thinkers.

The August hiring forecast from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals the loss of some 900 jobs in data processing, hosting and related services.

Median pay for STEM jobs increased 2.1% in 2018 to $84,880 from a year earlier, while total employment in the sector swelled to 9.09 million.

Software developers continue to be the most sought-after IT workers, as the unemployment rate for technology occupations in the United States fell to a 20-year low of 1.3 percent in May.

Software and application developers continue to be the most in-demand tech talent sought by employers, as the nation saw unemployment numbers drop to its lowest point in half a century last month.

Skills in data analytics are becoming among the most sought-after in the job market, as a growing number of organizations try to gain increased value from their information assets.

Organizations need to increasingly lure talent away from current jobs – and they better be prepared to shell out at least 15 percent more in compensation to grab that talent.

Economists at the hiring website Indeed say user data indicate that the technology job market may not be living up to some expectations about how hard it is to find workers.

The processes and structures which have been effective in building capacity in the past won’t be able to address the market today.

For insurers to lure these professionals successfully in 2019, they must provide clear career paths that leave room for personal growth as well.

Organizations will be looking to hire a range of IT professionals, with skills related to data management among the most desired.

Only 6,000 new jobs were added in software development, IT services and manufacturing, while nationally the total number of tech jobs fell 18,000 for the year.

There’s a war for talent and companies are incorporating new tech to attract workers, says TIAA's Angie Wesley.

Organizations are desperate to find data scientists and analysts that can help them get the most value from data. These questions can help seperate the best candidates from the rest.

Coming off its best hiring month in July, the U.S. information technology sector was unable to maintain that positive momentum in August, and overall hiring is now essentially flat.