Our Founder has over 10 years experience in the insurance industry, working for or within the Lloyds market. After a career break, returning to the post Covid insurance market and seeing the challenges and strain placed on teams, due to lack of incoming talent, moving into recruitment and working with talent acquisition teams to fill their new roles became a no-brainer. With that in mind, Boost Insurance Recruitment Ltd was borne. Sourcing quality candidates who intend to make a long term move for the correct culture, salary and team.

What’s in a name, you ask – everything. Here at Boost Insurance Recruitment, we understand the value of a new hire. A new hire Boosts collaboration and fresh ideas; a new hire Boosts productivity; and a new hire Boosts team morale. Thus Boost Insurance Recruitment was born.

Recruitment Agents play an essential role for increasingly strained talent acquisition teams. However, with first hand experiences of dealing with Recruiters and given the fast-paced nature of recruitment, Boost Insurance Recruitment recognises that our business is “people.” With that in mind, we would not work with any TA team which was unable to make our “feedback promise.” A promise to provide genuine feedback clarifying why a candidate was unsuccessful.

Today, we understand one of the key complaints amongst talent acquisition teams is that one role is filled within one part of the client business and the recruitment agent doesn’t fill further roles. Filling one role can involve an immense amount of work, researching, interviewing, reviewing CVs, arranging interview dates, second interviews and providing feedback. Its easy to see how Recruiters can lose steam. With that in mind, Boost Insurance Recruitment does not work with all insurers/brokers. Being selective on who we are able to serve as a business, enables us to provide a better quality of service. Our client’s growth is our growth, so we aim to fill multiple vacancies.

Insights - During Boost’s research phase, we recognised that talent acquisition teams valued the insights provided by Recruiters. As specialists, we are uniquely positioned, because of our experience gained within the Lloyds and Insurer market generally. The building blocks of Boost Insurance Recruitment is to provide the “Insider Promise.” A commitment to provide monthly newsletters that provide talent acquisition teams and hiring managers with useful insights in recruitment and the Lloyds market.

Attracting new talent has become a key challenge within the market. The omission to have entry level starters within the Lloyds market has led to the current shortage of trained candidates. Part of the reason that Boost Insurance Recruitments was actually borne was the lack of new entrants into the market, making the current and future market unworkable as a healthy work/life balance. If an industry makes employees work in an unsustainable way i.e. an employee shortage, good talent resigns. To change this, we are on a mission to attract new talent to replace the retiring talent, support our growing economy and “sell” parenthood in our current low birth rate economy. Our Founder was passionate about this, because she had first hand experience of sustainability of a role in a challenging recruitment market. We can no longer rely solely on graduates. We need to attract Apprentices, Returners and Pivoters. As such, Boost Insurance Recruitment will be attending recruitment fairs and running events to ensure that the word is out - the Lloyds market needs you!

Let’s meet! Based at Censeo House in St Albans, Bushra is in the London market every week. You are just one message, email or linkedin invite away from a coffee. Coffee on Boost of course.