Insurance talent is scarce. Your recruiting tools shouldn't make it scarcer.
Recruitment software for insurance staffing agencies. AI matching that understands actuarial, underwriting, claims, and broking roles. GDPR and FCA-awareness built in.
Insurance search isn't volume recruitment. So why are you using volume tools?
The pool of qualified insurance professionals in Europe is genuinely small. Senior actuaries, specialist underwriters, London Market claims directors — you're not searching from thousands. You're managing a defined universe of relationships, and most of your competition knows the same people. The edge isn't access. It's speed, memory, and insight.
London Market talent pools of 50-300 people per specialism
3-6 month notice periods that outlast your CRM follow-up reminders
FCA-regulated mandates where candidate data handling is scrutinised
London Market vs regional vs European — each works differently
Built for specialist insurance search.
AI that knows the difference between an actuary and an underwriter
Insurance roles aren't interchangeable. A General Insurance actuary working on reserving is not the same profile as a Life & Health pricing actuary. An underwriter who covers marine cargo is different from one in professional indemnity. Yena's semantic matching understands role depth — so you're surfacing candidates by actual fit, not just keywords on a CV.
See all specialist matching features"We placed a Lloyd's underwriting manager in 9 days. Yena found someone in our database who'd applied for a broking role two years ago — their underwriting background was perfect. We'd never have found them manually."
Precise enough for specialist mandates. Fast enough for the London Market's pace.
Built for insurance specialisms
Custom fields for class of business, Lloyd's experience, regulatory approvals (CF, SMF), and qualifications (ACII, FIA, CFA). Your database should reflect how insurance hiring actually works — not force insurance into generic HR categories.
Semantic AI for niche roles
Vector matching understands that a candidate who 'led treaty proportional book across EMEA' is relevant to a reinsurance underwriting director search — without that exact phrase in the job spec. It reads meaning. Keyword matching wastes everyone's time in specialist markets.
Discretion by design
Insurance search is discreet. RBAC controls who sees which candidates, anonymized shortlisting for confidential mandates, controlled client portal access. When you're replacing a sitting CUO, your platform can't be the leak.
Your 15-year insurance database. Live in Yena in 24 hours.
Years of relationship history, placement records, and market notes — that's your competitive advantage. We move it cleanly, with all the insurance-specific fields your team has built over time intact.
"We had 12 years of Lloyd's candidate data in Bullhorn — complex relationship history, market notes, everything. Yena migrated it overnight and mapped our custom fields. The AI surfaced three strong actuarial candidates in the first week that had been buried in our old database."
Secure enough for FCA-regulated clients.
Frequently asked questions
Yena's matching is semantic rather than keyword-based — it understands that a candidate with 'GI pricing model experience across motor and home' is relevant to a general insurance pricing actuary search, even without exact title matches. You can also build custom fields for qualifications (FIA, ACII, CFA), market experience (Lloyd's, London Market, E&S), and class of business — so your database reflects how insurance actually works.
That's the core use case. When the senior reinsurance underwriter pool in London is 60 people deep, you can't afford to lose track of anyone. Yena surfaces past candidates with semantic search, enriches profiles with current data, and integrates with LinkedIn for active sourcing. More importantly, it tracks your entire relationship history with each person — so when someone becomes available after a long notice period, you know exactly where you stand with them.
SOC 2 Type I certified, with EU-hosted infrastructure and full GDPR compliance. Automated consent management, configurable retention policies, right-to-erasure workflows, and audit trails showing who accessed which candidate records and when. For insurance clients running Senior Managers Regime searches, we can provide full data security documentation on request. UK data residency options are available — contact us for specifics.
Long notice periods mean long pipelines. Yena's timeline view shows every candidate's notice status, last contact date, and next action — so no one slips through the gap during a 5-month wait. Automated follow-up reminders keep warm candidates engaged without manual tracking. We've had clients tell us they recovered placements they'd have lost because they forgot to stay in touch during a long notice period.
We've migrated from Bullhorn, Vincere, FileFinder, Loxo, and various custom databases — usually in under 24 hours at no extra cost. Insurance databases often have years of relationship history, placement records, and market notes. We map your custom fields before import, so sector-specific data (class of business, Lloyd's experience, regulatory status) transfers cleanly. You run both systems in parallel until you're satisfied nothing was lost.
Yena works well for Lloyd's and London Market search firms that do proactive candidate development — where you're managing long-term relationships with a defined universe of senior talent. If you run a high-volume contingency operation processing hundreds of applications per week, you might find Yena's depth of relationship management more than you need. The honest answer: if your competitive advantage is knowing your market deeply, Yena was built for that. If it's processing speed on volume roles, there are better-fitted tools.
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