Opportunity to hire experienced insurance staff due to Covid-19

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The Covid Crisis has resulted in changing expectations of the experienced office workforce. Now that many office employees are now working from home and will likely continue in some hybrid of home and office work, there are more opportunities for these employees to work outside of their travel area.  In addition, the pandemic has allowed people to move away from the larger cities to work in smaller communities because travel to the office is limited and will likely be so in the future.

​For the insurance industry in Ontario, this has resulted in most insurance employees working from their home and able to telecommute to the office in the larger cities.  This has allowed them to avoid the problems of traffic congestion and time delays, saving them the cost of commuting. Some have moved away from the city core and into the suburbs and beyond to smaller towns with the expectation that commuting will be limited in the future.

This offers the mutual community, greater access to more experienced insurance personnel that what was available in the past.  Now mutuals can attract candidates with more experienced skills and knowledge obtained from working with larger insurance companies that have training programs.  With the ability to offer interesting positions in smaller communities where there is much less traffic issues and a better life/work balance, mutuals are more attractive to these potential insurance candidates.
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Canadian Insurance Mutual Professionals assists mutuals with various projects and works with other consultants in the insurance industry to provide help where needed.  CIMP has a working arrangement with a top Canadian Insurance recruiting firm that sources qualified candidates for the more difficult to fill roles. Givelos Partners Search (GPS) has been recruiting qualified insurance candidates for over 30 years and has a proven track record of finding the right candidate for the more difficult positions that are not easily obtained by using on-line sourcing tools.  Don Givelos was a pioneer in the field of internet recruitment search for the Canadian Insurance Industry but works today on more tailored recruitment searches.  
 
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