MIS Club meeting - Technology within Insurance

April 24^th, 2008

Brian Cruess, a Central Connecticut State University Management Information Systems graduate, spoke to current MIS students about the Hartford insurance industry. Since graduating in 1994, he has worked for many insurance companies including CIGNA, and presently the Hartford.

Brian spoke of the perception and reality of the IT field. He described the perception of the IT field is that all IT jobs are moving off-shore and there is no IT work left. Whereas the reality is only the jobs being outsourced off-shore are those that are a commodity and the stated "If you are good at what you do or have skill that is hard to find, then you will always have employment in the IT Field."

Furthermore there are 12 internships availible within the Life Company. For more information go to http://www.thehartford.com/careers and enter the position #0802141.

To contact Brian Cruess go to http://www.linkedin.com/in/briancruess