Career options available within the insurance industry are vast and rewarding but widely unknown, especially at the undergraduate level. Regardless, many in the industry would argue that the earlier one can get involved in insurance, the better. On today’s podcast, Andrea Garcia joins Chris Hampshire to discuss her experience as a female in the reinsurance sector. Andrea is a Senior Underwriting Specialist and Second Vice President for General Reinsurance Corporation, underwriting casualty facultative business on behalf of Berkshire Re. She offers her thoughts on how to better attract business talent to the insurance industry as well as her insights on being a risk management student who transitioned into reinsurance.

 

Key Takeaways

• Andrea’s education and experience led her to the insurance industry.
• The variety of career options that Andrea’s risk management degree provided.
• Reinsurance provided the variety that Andrea was seeking.
• The value of extensive training in the early onboarding months.
• Effective ways to train new underwriters.
• Andrea’s experience as a female leader in the industry.
• Ideas for increased inclusivity across the industry.
• A look at the five-year diversity strides within insurance.
• Trends that are leading the industry into the future.
• Why reinsurance? Andrea highlights the benefits of the sector.
• Andrea’s experience with the CPCU Society.
• What Andrea wishes she had known at the onset of her career.

 

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Quotes

• “I’ve realized that everything around us correlates to insurance.”
• “Training is the most important aspect when joining a new company.”
• “To have the right onboarding at the very beginning will only make you more confident later on.”
• “Success is about creating your own pathway.”
• “I just wish I had gotten my CPCU sooner, I really do.”