New Careers for Insurance Professionals

Insurance professionals are not exempted from getting bored in their current positions.  It happened to me early 2002 when I decided to become an entrepreneur and organized my own reinsurance broker.

Dr. Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., wrote, "Career change is a natural life progression; most studies show that the average job-seeker will change careers (not jobs) several times over the course of his or her lifetime."

If you are facing a career change plunge, take it slowly and make sure that you really want to do it.  It is highly advisable that you map out a career path that will help you travel from Point A to Point Z while taking all the right steps in between.

So if you are in insurance industry and is considering a career change within the same industry, it is important to choose one of the areas of expertise available.  Never choose a particular career path based on the "wrong" reasons.  There's nothing wrong if a particular position pays well because no salary is worthwhile if you're miserable in that position.

To those who are considering a career change, I am recommending that you consider a career in IT because computer systems design and related services industry is still among the economy's largest and fastest sources of employment growth.

In a report of Tom Young at Computing.co.uk, he said "Global IT spending should return to growth in 2010 for the first time since the recession."  All major segments - computing hardware, software, IT services, telecom and telecom services - are expecting to grow.

There are institutes who offers Certificate in IT for Insurance Professionals like The Chartered Institute for IT and The Chartered Insurance Institute.  This course demonstrates a broad understanding of IT; is specific to the insurance industry; and has been developed by professionals for professionals.