A programme which enables ‘career break’ professionals to return to the insurance sector has proven so successful that its organisers are considering renewing it for a new batch of recruits later this year.
In April, Health & Protection reported on Inclusivity Partners which launched a programme enabling ‘career break’ professionals to return to the insurance sector.
Opportunities on the programme are open across all disciplines, including underwriting, broking, claims, actuarial, exposure management, risk and some corporate functions.
Participants include AIG Life, American International Group UK, Chaucer Group, Howden Group & DUAL, Marsh, Phoenix Group and Willis Towers Watson.
At the time Inclusivity Partners founder and CEO Stephanie Dillon told Health & Protection that the health insurance sector should not forget about all the women it has originally recruited, trained and then lost.
Updating Health & Protection on the programme’s progress, partner at the firm Lisa Unwin revealed the original plan was to have 10 candidates accepted to start work in September 2021 on six-month contracts, with the aim of moving to a permanent role at the end of that period but 12 have already been accepted, while another five candidates are still in the interview process.
Unwin added four of the 12 accepted candidates are BAME candidates and all 12 are women.
Touching on the reaction to the programme from employers, Unwin revealed a director who had interviewed three candidates said he was so impressed by the quality of the candidates, adding he would have been ‘fishing in the same old pool’ were it not for the programme.
Given the success, Unwin said another intake is being considered for launch this September.