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Insurance industry needs to hire ‘skills for the future’ instead of focusing on the past

By 2025-03-24T08:00:00

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’What were network engineers doing 10 years ago – plugging cables into the back of boxes? That’s not what they are doing now,’ says expert

The insurance industry needs to start hiring “for the skills of the future and not the skills of the past” as technology continues to evolve, warned c-suite executives attending an Insurance Times roundtable, in association with global technology consultancy Thoughtworks, on 18 March 2025.

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