Building a Championship Team Team-building tips from the World Series Champs By: Mike McDonough Baseball season is back in full swing, and as a Chicagoan I know a lot of Cubs fans are still celebrating winning their first World Series Championship since 1908. It took a long time to build the team that won…(Read More)

Baseball season is back in full swing, and while the boys of summer are back in town, it’s also prime season for hiring. Just this week we’ve had nearly 50 jobs submitted to our board and we currently are looking for candidates to fill over 600 open positions. We’re recruiting for a…(Read More)

Write Better Job Descriptions to Attract Millennials By: www.InsNerds.com As Baby Boomers start transitioning into retirement, insurers and agencies are struggling to attract Millennials to replace them. One of the causes of the problem is the industry’s reputation of being boring. Looking at a description from the perspective of a young college…(Read More)

Client Needs, Demands Drive Change In Recruiting Sector   For boutique search firms, these are auspicious days. Double digit growth and expansion is the order of the day for many of the more specialized recruiters. As a group, industry statistics show, the boutiques are far outpacing their Big Five competition. Without question, these upstarts are doing…(Read More)

Scaling People: Start with the End in Mind HRExaminerJason Seidenby Jason Seiden Jason Seiden, HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board Contributor. Last year, I heard Matt Maloney, CEO of GrubHub, say that the hardest part of building a business is scaling people. Scaling people has always been a challenge, but there are aspects to the way business…(Read More)

What Could Prevent Internet of Things #IoT Devices And #Insurance From Truly Partnering? By Nick Lamparelli, InsNerds.com “If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately one million trillion, which is several thousand times…(Read More)

Insurance Industry Observations for March As of this week, spring has officially sprung. Winter is over and although it went out with a flurry, we may have finally seen the last of snow in many parts of the country. At this time of year, as baseball gets ready to make a comeback, we’ll also…(Read More)

Making the Most of Mentors Why using Baby Boomers to mentor Millennials has more benefits than you think. By: Mike McDonough Mentoring teams between Millennials and Baby Boomers have become more and more popular in the insurance industry and across the country. Most see this as a regular way to pass down knowledge from one…(Read More)

These 5 Mistakes Could be Keeping You From Getting That Interview By: John Krautzel No one ever vanquished an obstacle by trying the same failing strategy over and over again. If your job search isn’t yielding interviews, re-examine your methods and weed out the mistakes holding you back. A job search isn’t…(Read More)