Kanetix conducting online interviews to fill 75 new positions in Welland

A call centre in Welland will hire 75 new employees by August without meeting a single successful candidate in person.

Canada’s largest digital acquisition platform for insurance and financial services, Kanetix Ltd., will add to its 200employee workforce in Niagara by conducting interviews over the phone and through virtual sitdowns online.

The full-time broker roles come with benefit packages. No insurance experience is required.

Staff started working remotely March 24. All new hires will also be required to set up remotely until COVID-19 restrictions are lifted and life gets back to normal.

“It’s been quite impressive,” said Reygan Hale, vice-president of people operations recently in an interview about how smoothly employees have been able to complete their responsibilities without being in an office setting.

She said the company worked tirelessly at the start of the pandemic in late March to get 170 workers set up to work offsite.

Staff are using company-supplied Google Chromebooks to carry out their duties at Kanetix, which offers price comparison expertise for customers looking to get the best rate.

An eight-week virtual training course for brokers to become licensed will be the first order of business for new hires, before they start making calls from home. Hale said the wave of recruitment was planned to occur before the COVID-19 crisis started, was put on hold as it started to worsen, and now was determined to be the right time to start adding positions.

Information is available at kanetixltd.ca/about-us/careers. People can email their resumes to joinus@kanetix.ca.