Hello, Matthew Grant here and a special release today between our usual Sunday episodes.

Now, as you've taken the time to listen to this, I'm sure that you,

like myself, and many in the insurance industry, recognize the need and the benefit of

encouraging more people to consider a career in insurance that would not necessarily otherwise

thought about that. And if you want to find out what it's actually like for people in their

first job to work in insurance and how that may impact all of us, then you're going to learn a lot from this episode.

Henry Gail, one of our research analysts and editor of Parametric Post Newsletter, has spoken

to four people at the start of their career.

You can discover what they think the industry can learn from young people, and the conversation

covers topics including diversity and inclusion and the use of technology and social media. So are you curious about

where the industry has done well and about what lessons for any of us this has got for insurance

from the next generation? If so, this one is for you. You'll hear first from Ainsley Martin, who's now a cyber underwriting assistant at Beasley

after making an unlikely career shift. Here's Ainsley telling me how that happened.

I'd previously owned a convenience store in Birmingham for four years and then I wanted to move to London.

So I was thinking about Rolesmore line to finance at University.

I then began like speaking with recruiters, speaking with some of my peer group to see what they were doing.

And I reconnected with some people that I went to university with one of them was actually a cyber underwriter, not at Beasley, but at another firm.

They kind of told me more about insurance. I started going for different roles in insurance,

landed a role as Inside and Strategy Research Analyst,

which was a great role at Beasley in Inside Strategy Research.

I was able to learn about all the different lines of business

and found what I was interested in, which was soluble.

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