Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an insurance underwriter can go next

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

Insurance underwriters assess business risks and liability policies and make decisions about commercial property. They inspect the conditions of businesses’ properties, analyse inspection policies, assist with real estate and rent issues, prepare loan contracts and handle commercial risks in order to align them with business practices. Insurance underwriters analyse various information from prospective customers in order to assess the likelihood that they will report a claim. They work to minimise risk for the insurance company and make sure that the insurance premium aligns with the associated risks. They can be specialists in life insurance, health insurance, reinsurance, commercial insurance, mortgage insurance.

Also known as commercial underwriter, group insurance underwriter, liability risk assessor, casualty insurance underwriter, commercial insurance underwriter, commercial property underwriter, life underwriter, automobile insurance underwriter, commercial lines underwriter, risk assessor, personal lines underwriter, public liability insurance underwriter.

Technicians and associate professionals 52 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: property insurance underwriter, 72%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
property insurance underwriter 72% covered insurance collector 62% covered insurance rating analyst 61% covered insurance risk consultant 58% covered insurance fraud investigator 54% covered insurance underwriter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from insurance underwriter, 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 underwriter already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An insurance underwriter needs 20 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
  • real estate underwriting business, administration and law
  • decide on insurance applications management skills
  • create cooperation modalities communication, collaboration and creativity
  • claims procedures business, administration and law
  • review insurance process information skills
  • create insurance policies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • business loans business, administration and law
  • collect property financial information information skills
  • insurance law business, administration and law
  • principles of insurance business, administration and law
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Insurance underwriter 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 underwriter’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.