Working in the insurance industry is working on social impact. To draw attention to this, the Association and its members organise various activities. Read more about it on this page.
Businesslike, boring, hierarchical, formal and money. These are words that students mention when they think of insurers. That is different from reality! To tell them the real story, there is verzekerjetoekomst.nl. On it, mostly young employees of insurers share what their daily work is really like.
Ensure the future, of yourself and of others. Plenty of variety and challenge in your work, above-average working conditions and impact on society. That is the world of insurance.
Since 2022, we have been organising Insurance Challenges with our members on a regular basis. Through such a challenge, students get to know insurers and work on solutions to real insurance problems such as the transition to a sustainable society, responsible use of data or the tight labour market. Each challenge has a theme and takes place at an insurer's location. This gives the students a look behind the scenes of the company, and the insurer has the opportunity to show how fun and valuable working in this sector is. Please contact Richard Roelevink for more information.
Sometimes insurers enlist the help of students through the Association. Initiatives and projects usually originate in working groups, platforms and committees of the Association and can be about all kinds of subjects. Such as mobility, insurance crime, pensions, sustainable investments or personal injury. An example of a project that involves student help is "The Best Privacy Statement." All insurers must inform customers about how they handle privacy-sensitive data. 'Such a privacy statement is often a piece of text, but is there no other way?' thought Jos Schaffers, policy adviser Data and Privacy of the Association. Creative students from various universities of applied sciences then worked on legal design in eight groups.
Students from colleges and universities regularly visit us to get acquainted with the insurance sector. Every year, for example, a group of students from a financial and economic study from Zeeland University of Applied Sciences comes to The Hague to work on a practical case about insurance. Students from the Master's programme in Liability & Insurance at the University of Amsterdam have also been visiting companies for years in a row. Many students do not know the Association and the insurance sector beforehand, but find our field of work very interesting after an introduction.