GreatInsuranceJobs.com: 7,262 Open Jobs in U.S. Insurance Industry

ORLANDO, Fla., April 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The insurance industry will have a record employment year in 2015, according to today's forecast by GreatInsuranceJobs.com. For seven straight years, GreatInsuranceJobs.com has surveyed employers about their currently open jobs, their gut feeling about the future, and their biggest challenges in insurance hiring today. 
In totality, the GreatInsuranceJobs.com Employment Outlook for 2015 found 7,262 jobs currently open at the 78 companies within their survey. Another 15,354 jobs were predicted by the hiring managers for those companies during the remaining three quarters of 2015.
The study, conducted via phone between February 9 and March 6, 2015, also found that 24% of surveyed companies indicated that hiring would be better in 2015 when compared to 2014. There are currently open jobs at 84% of the companies surveyed.

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"We expect 2015 to be a record year for hiring in insurance," states Scott Kotroba, President and Co-Founder of GreatInsuranceJobs.com. "But for hiring managers, the greatest challenge mentioned by more than 80% of the employers is the difficulty of finding qualified talent."

The Top Ten recruiting challenges that insurance companies looking for talent are experiencing are the following:

1. Unqualified applicants.
2. Finding technology talent.
3. Retirement of the workforce.
4. Recruiting budgets remain low.
5. Hard to find sales candidates.
6. Salary regulations.
7. Technology, Customer Service and Underwriting jobs are hard to fill.
8. Difficult to find bilingual candidates.
9. Not fit for company culture. 
10. Finding talent in remote areas.

 Download the survey in its entirety at www.greatinsurancejobs.com/whitepaper 

GreatInsuranceJobs.com is the nation's pre-eminent insurance employment network, and the only digital job board in the insurance industry optimized for mobile, on-the-go usage by jobseekers. With more than 194,500 visitors per month, and every major insurance company posting open positions, there is no better place to find an insurance job. The site was founded in 2005 by Roger Lear and Scott Kotroba. The GreatInsuranceJobs.com network includes InsuranceSalesJobs.com, UltimateInsuranceJobs.com, GreatInsuranceRecruiters.com and GreatJobSpot.com.  GIJ hosts the largest database of insurance talent in the country.

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Media Contact:Roger Lear, GreatInsuranceJobs.com, 800-818-4898, [email protected]

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