Insurance companies are busy with spring recruitment; demand for AI and healthcare talent is increasing.

Reporter Yang Xiaohan

With the arrival of the “Golden March, Silver April” hiring season, multiple insurance companies, including China Property & Casualty Insurance Company (China P&C), China Ping An, New China Life Insurance, Taikang Insurance, Sunlight Insurance, and ZhongAn Insurance, have released spring 2026 recruitment information in quick succession. Judging from hiring demand, demand for technology-related talent such as AI (artificial intelligence), big data, and technical development has increased significantly, as has demand for talent in the medical and senior care sector.

For example, China Ping An Group said it will work together with more than 10 of its member companies to carry out global campus recruitment for more than 3,000 positions and recruit 1,500 interns. In addition to financial roles, it will also open up a large number of positions in areas such as technology, medical care, and senior care. China Life Group said it will open recruitment for more than a dozen categories of roles, including management trainees, financial technology, law and risk management, and medical and health.

In terms of professional needs, this year insurance companies have placed particularly strong emphasis on technology-related talent such as artificial intelligence, digital R&D and applications. For example, in this recruitment drive, China P&C has provided more than 3,000 sub-divided positions. Among them, the proportions of roles related to technology, special positions for agricultural insurance, and inclusive finance exceed 50%. New frontier roles have been added, such as artificial intelligence development and data security offense-and-defense. Meanwhile, in Sunlight Insurance Group, the technology line has opened positions such as an AI smart computing group. The company is recruiting talent in fields including algorithm, large-model architecture, and big data development. Taikang Insurance Group has also set up technology-related positions at both Taikang Life Insurance and Taikang Online, recruiting talent in areas such as system R&D, AI application engineering, and data analysis.

In addition to technology talent, insurance companies this year have also clearly increased efforts to bring in talent in fields such as medical and health care and senior care rehabilitation. For example, at the 2026 spring global campus recruitment launch meeting, China Ping An said it will continue to step up the introduction of talent in areas such as technology R&D and medical and senior care. It will open science and technology, medical, and senior care positions such as artificial intelligence, big data, algorithm engineering, basic medicine, clinical medicine, and health management. These roles account for nearly 30%.

Fu Xin, executive director, vice president, and chief financial officer of China Ping An, said that Ping An has always adhered to long-termism, promoting the “two-wheel parallel” strategy of integrated finance plus medical and senior care, along with a technology-driven strategy.

Yang Fan, general manager of Beijing Paipaivang Insurance Agency Co., Ltd., told Securities Daily reporters that, in this year’s spring campus hiring, insurers’ talent demand shows the characteristics of “improving quality while reducing headcount” and “fine-grained management.” The focus of recruitment has shifted from “mass mobilization tactics” to sourcing high-quality, multi-disciplinary professional talent. In particular, the recruitment effort has increased for talent in sub-sectors such as senior-care and wellness management, actuarial risk control, and digital operations.

In Yang Fan’s view, this change deeply reflects that insurers in their strategic development are accelerating their move away from a rough-and-ready growth model, and instead are focusing on a path of high-quality development. It not only places greater emphasis on the professionalization and differentiation of products and services, but also demonstrates the industry’s determination to undergo a deep transformation toward an approach centered on customer needs and to enhance core service capabilities.

Changes in insurers’ demand for recruited talent also, on the sidelines, reflect industry development trends and the direction of insurers’ strategic transformation—namely, two major transformation directions: digitization and ecosystem-building.

Zhou Jin, a partner in Tianzhi International’s financial services consulting business, analyzed that in the context of the industry’s digitization-and-intelligence transformation, companies’ business philosophies, operating models, cost structures, and other aspects all need to be adjusted. As a result, talent demand is also increasingly reflected in areas such as AI, big data, and intelligent risk control. At the same time, ecosystem-building transformation is driven by the insurance industry’s need for competition under a “product + services” model, and it is also the strategy for leading insurers to operate with differentiated senior-care and wellness ecosystems. By accelerating the introduction of talent in medical and health fields, insurers can enhance their ecosystem capabilities in the large health domain, thereby providing health management and risk protection services across the entire life cycle.

At the same time, as insurers carry out digitization-and-intelligence transformation, the deep integration of artificial intelligence has become one of the main directions where insurers are stepping up efforts. For example, China Life mentioned in the company’s recently released 2025 annual report that it proactively aligns with the national “Artificial Intelligence+” action deployment, building an AI capability system in an all-round way that covers every link in the company’s operations and management. ZhongAn Insurance’s 2025 annual report states that the company deepened its “OneAI” strategic layout, continuously increased R&D investment, and built a complete AI technology system covering the underlying architecture, core capabilities, and business applications.

“Through the deep application of digitalization, intelligentization, and artificial intelligence, the underlying logic and value chain of the insurance industry are being reshaped,” Yang Fan said. Technology enablement will break the time-and-space constraints of traditional services, significantly improving pricing precision and the efficiency of underwriting and claims settlement, thereby enabling precise matching between supply and demand. This will prompt insurance institutions to transform from traditional risk bearers into risk reduction managers and comprehensive service providers, driving the industry ecosystem toward intelligent and integrated development.

Looking ahead, Yang Fan said that in the future, competition in the insurance industry will focus on the professional density and service depth of talent. Talent demand will strictly follow the development trend of “specialization, multi-disciplinary capabilities, and excellence/elite talent.” Specifically, it will be reflected in the comprehensive demand for talent with cross-domain knowledge structures such as insurance, law, senior care and wellness, and digital literacy.

(Editor: Qian Xiaorui)

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