Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where an insurance broker can go next

12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an insurance broker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Insurance brokers promote, sell and provide advice on various insurance policies such as life insurance, health insurance, accident insurance and fire insurance to individuals and organisations. They also work as intermediaries between individuals or organisations and insurance companies, and negotiate the best insurance policies for their clients, arranging insurance cover where needed. Insurance brokers engage with new prospective clients, provide them with quotes for their policy needs, assist them in the signing of new insurance contracts and propose specific solutions to their specific problems.

Also known as insurance agent, property and casualty insurance agent and broker, life insurance broker, insurance sales person, commercial insurance broker, insurance seller, life insurance representative, retail insurance broker, insurance sales consultant, sales insurance supervisor, household insurance broker, insurance intermediary.

Technicians and associate professionals 46 skills on file 12 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: insurance collector, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
insurance collector 51% covered insurance claims handler 50% covered property insurance underwriter 46% covered insurance rating analyst 40% covered insurance underwriter 40% covered loss adjuster 39% covered insurance broker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from insurance broker, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an insurance broker already covers. All 12 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An insurance broker needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • compare insurance products information skills
  • inform on insurance products communication, collaboration and creativity
  • sell insurance communication, collaboration and creativity
  • calculate insurance rate information skills
  • claims procedures business, administration and law
  • create insurance policies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse insurance needs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • insurance market business, administration and law
  • insurance law business, administration and law
  • principles of insurance business, administration and law
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an insurance broker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Insurance broker is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an insurance broker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.