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Accelerated development

Published on
Friday, January 13, 2012
Written by
Hilda Poon [1]

Employee turnover rate has always been high in insurance, prompting companies to look for ways to attract and retain the best talent by designing fast-paced career development plans for their staff. With 1,000 corporate staff and 4,000 financial consultants in Hong Kong, AXA China Region Insurance Company has drawn up programmes to foster personal and professional development, and prepare their employees for higher positions.

“Career development is one of the most important and universal demands of employees,” says Sabrina Yuan, chief human resources (HR) officer at AXA China.  “And we are good at listening to our employees.”

Corporate staff who have demonstrated high potential in the first couple of years after joining the company are offered an accelerated development plan, for instance.

“We will assess their strengths and areas of improvement, and design for them tailored-made development pl