Insurance Jobs

General insurance are schemes available for the personal needs of people. These needs include personal mediclaim policy or medical insurance, accident policy, child insurance, non life insurance needs, elders insurance and lots more. With every changing circumstance the insurance companies need to come out with new, attractive and more challenging schemes. Formulating these schemes is a big challenge. Likewise marketing and managing them are also big challenges. Because of such varied requirements there is wide variety of jobs available in the insurance sectors.

Scope of Insurance Jobs in India
The scope of insurance jobs include actuary, risk management officer, insurance market research officer, risk products sales agents, operations executives, broker, advisor, claims officer, underwriter, liability assessor,  actuarial and loss adjuster, claim consultants, claims officer, insurance officer, workers compensation claims, case manager and many more.

What are the types of Insurance Jobs
If as a fresher you wish to apply for general insurance jobs or as an experienced person there is always a wide variety of options in general insurance jobs. These include finance and accounts jobs, internal audit, investment & risk management jobs, human resource, sales, marketing, retail sales, training, operations, legal & compliance, process management, policy administration, actuarial analyst, health insurance jobs, insurance adjusters’ jobs, manager-taxation, underwriting officer, insurance investigator jobs and trainee underwriter. Off all, insurance agents’ jobs are the most found jobs in the country.

Insurance Companies in India
Apart from Life Insurance Corporation of India, one can get jobs in ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd. Relieance general Insurance, IFFCO-Tokyo General Insurance Career, Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited and United India Insurance Co, Ltd.

Opportunities in Private Insurance Companies
In ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd opportunities are available in distribution, operations, underwriting, sales, marketing, finance, investment, HR operations and customer service. Reliance General Insurance offers career opportunities in its core operations of underwriting, claims, actuary, and risk management apart from value-adding services like technology, operations, HR, finance, accounts, sales and marketing.

How to get into Insurance Jobs
To get clerical jobs in insurance companies you need to pass an entrance exam. For higher posts you require specialized qualifications. To become a claims adjuster you need to have a degree in customer relations. Those aspiring to become actuaries need to have a degree in math’s related subject. Insurance agents require a college degree though it is not mandatory.