{"id":15118,"date":"2012-04-05T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T23:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=15118"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T03:37:48","slug":"insurance-jobs-for-bank-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2012\/04\/05\/insurance-jobs-for-bank-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Jobs for Bank Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bank staff who have been retrenched are being targeted by insurers for back-office jobs, according to a leading financial services recruiter.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->eFinancialCareers has reported that the insurance industry is providing alternative employment options for some ex-bank employees.<\/p>\n<p>Among the jobs available are junior client-services, claims and underwriting positions, which the recruiter says are a good fit for junior operations professionals from retail banks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Banking candidates are not pro-actively clamouring to get into insurance, but what&#8217;s happening is that they are increasingly becoming more open to the suggestion when recruiters show them likely opportunities,&#8221; says Managing Director, eFinancialCareers Asia-Pacific, <strong>George McFerran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr McFerran said it was more difficult for senior staff to swap sectors because of the high level of specialist insurance knowledge typically required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank staff who have been retrenched are being targeted by insurers for back-office jobs, according to a leading financial services recruiter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"headers-new"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}