According to a report by a Top 4 Consulting Firm, Insurance CIOs are actively planning to recruit technically advanced professionals to scale up the Digital capabilities being built by the industry with the increasing deployment to Cloud and rapidly growing transactional dependencies on Blockchain.

A rising dependency on evolving technologies such as Advanced Analytics, Telematics, Internet of Things (IoT), Cybersecurity, Blockchain and Cognitive Science demand newer technology capabilities that are both scalable and flexible. This demands for a proactive workforce that can match pace with the metamorphosing industry.

More and more organizations are calling for more creative and proactive approaches to recruitment in the Insurance space. Recruiters are looking for leaders who know how to act, think, and influence in this new working environment, promoting the industry’s revamped digital DNA.

In order to maximize the value employees can bring in the wake of automation organizations are planning to free up the time and attention of actuaries, underwriters, claims adjusters, and other key players for higher-level tasks and more strategic responsibilities. As the industry now demands for its employees to be spending more time on ideation and decision making—and far less on computation and distillation jobs.