Recruiting And Retaining Talent For The Workers’ Comp Industry

When I graduated college last May, I didn’t think that my first post-college job would be writing about workers’ compensation. I didn’t even know what workers’ compensation was.

After I received the job offer and began telling people that I was covering workers’ comp, I was met with many confused stares.

Save for the odd person whose parent had filed a claim, many in my generation didn’t know what workers’ compensation was. Eventually, I just started saying that I wrote about insurance.

The lack of knowledge about the workers’ compensation industry among young people is a major problem for the industry, which is facing a historic talent gap. As older workers retire, young people aren’t stepping up to fill those roles.