Forbes Flags Candidate Matching as Paylocity's Gap. Insurance Hiring Runs Entirely on It.

Forbes Advisor's review names one limitation in an otherwise strong recruiting suite: candidate matching. Insurance hiring depends on the exact capability that review says is limited.

• Most producers worth hiring are not applying anywhere. Per Accenture's analysis of BLS data, roughly 1.37 million insurance professionals are 55 or older against about 214,000 aged 20 to 24, a six-to-one ratio. The people an agency needs are already appointed elsewhere.
• Licensing adds a filter Paylocity's ATS was not built to check. A form field recording a licence number is not the same as a check against a state board, and Forbes's "limited automatic matching" line covers exactly this.
• BLS projects roughly 47,000 annual openings for insurance sales agents through 2034, driven mostly by turnover, which is continuous demand, not the low-volume pattern Forbes says fits Paylocity best.

What our client says

"There is truly no other recruiting platform on the market that solves for the unique complexities of the insurance industry like EasySource. Having direct access to over 50 million unique insurance agents with more than 90% nationwide coverage completely changes how we recruit."

Doris Sova, Vice President, W3 Insurance    Source: HireQuotient Announces W3 Insurance Achieves 80% Reduction in Manual Recruiting Effort Using EasySource

Why this works

EasySource's 50M-agent database and 800M database in total, built from NIPR, NAIC and state DOI licensing feeds, is candidate matching purpose-built for exactly what Forbes says a generic HRIS does not do well. Matched, licence-verified candidates pass into Paylocity's existing recruiting workflow.

FAQ

Does Paylocity's ATS track insurance licences?

It can store a licence number in a field. Verifying that licence against a state board is the candidate-matching gap Forbes's review names and EasySource closes the gap