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Investment in people is a vital part of ensuring your business can run successfully, but it’s not always easy or possible to get all the expertise you need into your brokerage directly. Whether it’s a particularly niche area that you’re trying to expand into, or you don’t have the budget for more heads, sometimes external help is called for...

The ongoing skills shortage in the insurance industry is far from a new issue. As businesses grapple with finding skilled talent, the question remains: Are we, as experienced industry leaders, doing enough to cultivate the talent we need?

Compare Insurance is growing rapidly, and has had to find ways to maintain that growth and bring the right people on board. After a few experiences with recruitment agencies, they decided to take a different approach.

Watch the video above where Mark Thomas, Chief Executive at Compare, shares his perspective on hiring challenges within the insurance industry, and his philosophy in hiring that has resulted in many wins for the company.

A guest article from one of our Hedron Horizon Premier Sponsors.

AXA are delighted to be Premium sponsors at the Hedron Horizon Conference. We value our relationship with Hedron Network – championing the independent insurance broker. We are looking forward to the 2024 conference and to deepening our relationships with members and their customers. 

"Come and visit our ONE AXA team, on our stand.” - Ruari Watt, Strategic Relationship Manager, AXA Insurance 

A guest article from our Hedron Horizon Premier Sponsor.

Carrolls are a specialist Lloyd’s and London market wholesaler that, since our humble beginnings as a property and casualty broker in 1988, have grown to become a leading player for the placement of complex, difficult and distressed business across a variety of classes. Focusing on high quality service and market-leading products gives us the edge over our competitors in our field. Our teams benefit from having several colleagues to rely on plus some real specialism in certain areas.

A guest article from our Hedron Horizon Premier Sponsor.

At Zurich, one of our key focuses is to move broker relationships away from just transacting business and concentrate on evolving broker and insurer businesses together. Creating a real partnership is paramount to a successful and collaborative relationship. That’s why our commitment to the Hedron network is at the heart of our strategy at Zurich. We want brokers to feel seen and heard by providing a straight-forward trading experience underpinned by flexibility, access to decision makers, and mutual growth.  

A guest article from our Hedron Horizon Premier Sponsor.

RSA has taken a significant step forward in the way claims are processed. We have launched our new and improved online claims portal for Property claims, powered by Guidewire Claims Centre. This upgrade makes life easier for you and helps you to provide a better service for your customers.