Insurers
Job description
These individuals evaluate insurance applications to determine the risks to be covered in order to set premiums. They determine the extent of coverage based on the company’s policies. They work at the head office and in the branches of insurance companies.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Evaluate applications and renewals of individual and group insurance policies.
- Approve the sale of insurance policies and ensure compliance with government regulations.
- Make recommendations on the development of individual or group insurance plans.
- Give advice and answer questions from clients and colleagues.
- Draft pricing reports.
- Update insurance forms as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to management positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $25.50
- Median
- $35.71
- Maximum
- $49.52
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
3,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 61.5% Female
- 38.5% Male
Not available.
- 61.5% Female
- 38.5% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$67,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 52499% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6231% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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Others0% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 52499% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6231% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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Others0% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Secondary school diploma
Also required
- Specialized training in the insurance industry.
Sometimes required
- Representative’s certificate may be required or may be an asset.
- Certified Life Underwriter (C.L.U.) or Chartered Life Underwriter (C.L.U.) designation may be required or may be an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Written expression
- Critical thought
- Oral expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Active learning
- Solving complex problems
- Coordination
- Result evaluation
- Service oriented
- Social perception
Abilities
- Written comprehension
- Written expression
- Inductive reasoning
- Verbal skills
- Oral comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech clarity
- Awareness of issues
- Classification
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Processing flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Autonomy
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Rigour
- Sense of initiative
- Vitality
- Knowledge of sales and marketing
- Friendliness
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in sales or client service
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Official name of the NOC 12202
Insurance underwriters
Job titles
- Insurance underwriter
- Property underwriter
- Insurance rating analyst
- Casualty insurance products analyst-designer
- Assistant underwriter - insurance
- Automobile underwriter - insurance
- Junior underwriter - insurance
- Marine underwriter - insurance
- Package underwriter - insurance
- Senior underwriter - insurance
- Casualty underwriter - insurance
- Fire underwriter - insurance
- Life underwriter
- Commercial underwriter - insurance
- Boiler and machinery underwriter - insurance
- Accident and sickness underwriter - insurance
- Marine and aircraft underwriter - insurance
- Surety underwriter - insurance
- Reinsurance underwriter - insurance
- Head office underwriter - insurance
- Farm underwriter - insurance
- Group underwriter
- Public liability underwriter - insurance
- Personal lines underwriter
- Liability underwriter
- Automobile and home insurance consultant
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
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