Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Insurance

These are the 29 terms our scorer checks a Insurance resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • underwriting
  • policy administration
  • claims
  • claim settlement
  • premium
  • sum assured
  • reinsurance
  • actuarial
  • risk assessment
  • irdai
  • solvency
  • loss ratio
  • combined ratio
  • persistency
  • renewal
  • lapse
  • endorsement
  • surveyor
  • tpa
  • motor insurance
  • health insurance
  • life insurance
  • general insurance
  • bancassurance
  • agency channel
  • broker
  • mga
  • quote to bind
  • personal lines

The eight questions for Insurance

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.What premium volume or number of policies do you handle?
  2. 2.What is your claims volume, and what is your settlement ratio?
  3. 3.How many agents, partners or branches do you support?
  4. 4.What is your persistency or renewal rate?
  5. 5.Which lines of business do you work across?
  6. 6.What is your average turnaround on a claim or a policy issue?
  7. 7.Which regulatory requirements do you handle?
  8. 8.What fraud or leakage have you identified or prevented?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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