Throwback Thursday: Young men hunted; CII overhaul
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to February 1971 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when a recruitment agency was seeking young men and the Chartered Insurance Institute’s qualifications were being overhauled.
4 February 1971: Hunt for young men
Lloyd Executive Selection Ltd proudly declared they were “looking for young men who can see further than the edge of their desks”.
The recruitment agency advertised in Post that they wanted young men who had realised in their present job they were overworked, underpaid and couldn’t see a future in the ever-filling filing baskets.
Welcome to 1971 recruitment practices our female (and male) 2026 Post subscribers.
“Why not get out from under all that paper and find yourself a phone? Call us.”
CII qualifications refresh
“The achievement of a Chartered Insurance Institute diploma was, at the very least, evidence of a determination to succeed,” Post reported AW Grant, general manager at Ecclesiastical and then president of the CII, saying at the Insurance Institute of Oxford’s dinner.
Grant said “after much blood, sweat and tears” the CII had evolved a new syllabus for its examinations that was “up with the times” and would test fewer subjects in greater depth.
Fast forward to 2025 and the CII revealed to Post that it once again was overhauling qualifications.
The intends to ditch three-hour examinations and overhaul all 115 units, plus around 50 qualifications in the next couple of years.
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