insurance claims handlertoinsurance fraud investigator
A insurance claims handler already meets 61% of what the insurance fraud investigator role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
61%
37.2/ 100
1 Share of the insurance fraud investigator role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the insurance claims handler profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A insurance fraud investigator role treats 9 of its required skills as things a insurance claims handler already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- actuarial science
- analyse claim files
- claims procedures
- fraud detection
- insurance law
- interview insurance claimants
What stands in the way is 4 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 14 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A insurance fraud investigator role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a insurance claims handler background worth leading with.
- already held interview insurance claimants communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held classify insurance claims information skills
- already held manage claim files information skills
- already held analyse claim files information skills
- already held claims procedures business, administration and law
- already held review insurance process information skills
All 14 carried skills, including the 9 the insurance fraud investigator role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 12 missing skills fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held conduct financial audits required
- required, not held detect financial crime required
- optional, not held collect property financial information optional
- optional, not held document evidence optional
- optional, not held obtain financial information optional
- optional, not held perform debt investigation optional
- optional, not held prepare financial auditing reports optional
- required, not held assess customer credibility required
- required, not held assist police investigations required
- optional, not held interpret law optional
- optional, not held present evidence optional
- optional, not held debt systems optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a insurance fraud investigator role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assess customer credibility skill · sector specific
- 02 assist police investigations skill · cross sector
- 03 conduct financial audits skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 14 skills that carry over
- already held actuarial science knowledge
- already held analyse claim files skill
- already held claims procedures knowledge
- already held fraud detection knowledge
- already held insurance law knowledge
- already held interview insurance claimants skill
- already held principles of insurance knowledge
- already held review insurance process skill
- already held types of insurance knowledge
- already held analyse financial risk skill
- already held classify insurance claims skill
- already held manage claim files skill
- already held manage claims process skill
- already held trace financial transactions skill
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held collect property financial information optional
- optional, not held debt systems optional
- optional, not held document evidence optional
- optional, not held interpret law optional
- optional, not held obtain financial information optional
- optional, not held perform debt investigation optional
- optional, not held prepare financial auditing reports optional
- optional, not held present evidence optional
18 held skills the insurance fraud investigator role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply statistical analysis techniques skill
- not needed by the target role apply technical communication skills skill
- not needed by the target role assess coverage possibilities skill
- not needed by the target role calculate compensation payments skill
- not needed by the target role communicate with beneficiaries skill
- not needed by the target role decide on insurance applications skill
- not needed by the target role ensure cross-department cooperation skill
- not needed by the target role estimate damage skill
- not needed by the target role handle customer complaints skill
- not needed by the target role handle financial disputes skill
- not needed by the target role handle financial transactions skill
- not needed by the target role handle incoming insurance claims skill
- not needed by the target role insurance market knowledge
- not needed by the target role maintain records of financial transactions skill
- not needed by the target role organise a damage assessment skill
- not needed by the target role provide financial product information skill
- not needed by the target role statistics knowledge
- not needed by the target role synthesise financial information skill
1 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held debt systems optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.