According to an analysis by the St. John's University School of Risk Management, every seven seconds a Baby Boomer turns 60. That means a lot of people will be retiring from the agency ranks in the next five to 10 years.
How will agencies fill that talent void? An increasing number are implementing internship programs as a way of identifying and recruiting top performers before they choose other careers.
One example is McGriff, Seibels & Williams, a national brokerage firm based in Birmingham, Ala., which has maintained for more than 20 years a formal internship program—whose primary goal is to recruit quality employees.
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