Are you in 'sight of everyone' in the NZ Insurance Market?

At Stirling Andersen, a global specialist insurance recruiter, our network efforts focus on companies within the Insurance and Financial Services industry. In New Zealand the market is finite and often those ‘Hard-to-Fill’ roles are where we can add value in tapping into our passive skilled candidate pool for our respective clientele. Most companies believe that they have ‘sight of everyone’ in this industry and usually have no need for an external resource such as us to identify a candidate for that ‘Hard-To-Fill’ role.

Since I arrived in New Zealand back in February 2015 I have seen much transition and change in the New Zealand Insurance market as companies are improving their efficiencies by restructures, retrenchments and reorganisation. Candidates are constantly on the move and interchanging between jobs. This is not unique to New Zealand nor the Insurance sector!

Our business is about identifying talent in this sector and we undertake comprehensive market mapping exercises which we know the gathered information will in most likely event be out of date within 6 months. Because one has ‘sight of everyone’ does not necessarily mean that one will be able to approach and engage with everyone, nor ultimately secure anyone.

The value proposition of partnering with a specialist recruiter such as Stirling Andersen who are focused solely on YOUR industry even if you have ‘sight of everyone’ is measurable by:

1. Up to date market information both locally in New Zealand and through our global office footprint exploring the diversity of appointments and an indication of salary package ranges pertaining to the local insurance industry;
2. Market mapping of direct competitors will reveal new information and highlight newbies within their organisation/industry;
3. Accessing untapped passive candidates outside of your competitors through our local and global communities who do not apply directly to companies preferring to be represented by a professional intermediary who can assist with handling the process for that next opportunity;
4. Understanding the perception of your company in the market place, allowing you to manage the public persona of the company for the purposes of candidate attraction;
5. The ability to secure that candidate following a thorough internal process of interviewing, screening, due diligence, verifications, salary package negotiations and counter-offer counselling. Skills that you might possibly not be particularly skilled in even with having ‘everyone in sight’.
6. Industry events co-hosted with companies to engage with like-minded industry experts and candidates alike understanding insights on current trends affecting the industry. This allows you to interact with diverse profiles of people from YOUR industry.

When considering your next ‘Hard-To-Fill’ role even if you have ‘everyone in sight’ in the NZ Insurance market maybe explore doing things differently?? Be the next Disruption in YOUR industry!

Let Stirling Andersen be your partner in doing things differently and accessing those hard to reach candidates.