Hear from our partners Allianz about their experience of our partnership – and the benefit it brings to their organisation and colleagues.
“The benefits of partnering with Career Ready for Allianz is, getting young people into our business helps us find young talent and diverse young talent, which is what we need as a business to thrive,” says Stuart Darroch, Manchester Branch Manager at Allianz.
It’s also had benefits for colleagues, giving an opportunity for meaningful volunteering.
“Knowing that I can have an impact on someone else is very rewarding,” says mentor Megan, a Business Development Manager at Allianz.
Watch the video to hear more about their experience:
“To any employer out there who’s thinking of partnering with the Career Ready programme, one, why wouldn’t you?” says Stuart. “And two, it’s a great, rewarding experience for us as a business to have these young people come into our business who are interested in careers in insurance.
“So I think you’re missing out if you don’t partner with Career Ready.”
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Video transcript:
The benefits of partnering with Career Ready for Allianz is that, you know, we’ve got young people coming into our industry.
It’s difficult for us to recruit young people so getting them into our business helps us find young talent and diverse young talent, which is what we need as a business to thrive.
From the start of when we were doing the first mentoring sessions up to now, which is, which is the internship, the progression in the relationship and just the trust there It’s been really nice to see. They’ve really come out of their shell throughout the internship, and they seem to have really enjoyed it.
One thing that he did say before starting the internship was to gain skills in networking and communication. And I think, yeah, he’s definitely achieved that.
I think the highlight for me is having young people, in our business finding out about what we do, hopefully giving them some insight into insurance, which will maybe make them think of insurance as a career.
This has been like a unique experience for me.
It did help me know more about myself because insurance is something now that I’m interested in.
The thing I enjoyed most about the internship, I think, was definitely meeting all the other interns and the grads, and just everyone that works here at Allianz, seeing what a day in Allianz is like.
I think we definitely need that youthful you know, inspiration in our company and it’s just a different spin on things.
A thing for me was more about gaining confidence for myself. That’s something that I’ve definitely gained from this experience.
Knowing that I can have an impact on someone else is very rewarding.
To any employer out there who’s thinking of partnering with the Career Ready programme,
Two things from me.
One, why wouldn’t you?
And two, it’s a great, rewarding experience for us as a business to have these young people come into our business who are interested in careers are interested in careers in insurance.
So I think you’re missing out if you don’t partner with Career Ready. All the better for me. But you’re missing out.
