NEWS

TII offers new services unique to the sector and the institutions. Read more...

TII Services are certified by “ISO 9001:200 Quality Certification”. Read more...

First Level of the Actuary Exams were held. Read more...


TRAININGS

Registrations for 26th Term Basic Insurance Training Programme have begun. Read more...

Last Quarter of 2008 Short Term Training Programmes Begin. Read more...

Developments of the Legislation are Followed at TII. Read more...
 


RESEARCH - PUBLICATIONS

We are expecting your articles for the 5th issue of Journal of Insurance Studies. Read more...

TII Private Employment Agency Specialized in Insurance has started its activities. Read more...
 


INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - PROJECTS

TII will report on the Turkish insurance sector to the insurance institutes in Europe. Read more...
 


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NEWS

TII offers new services unique to the sector and the institutions

In addition to training programmes, researches, publications, projects and private employment agency TII is continuing to offer new services. With the aim of developing the sector, TII is offering its services with the concept of quality and trust and in cooperation with all the actors of the sector.

Consultancy, institutional examination services and organizations are some of these services. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suna Özyüksel Oksay explains the contents of these new services of TII as follows: “The contents of the services our Institute offer to the sector are broadening day by day. This is an inevitable outcome of the development of the sector. In order to catch up with this pace we are following the sector together with domestic and international changes. We professionally offer the corporate services which are and will be needed by the sector. Within this scope we offer consultancy services to the companies which include R&D, customer analyses, efficiency analyses, product analyses, market and public surveys. In order to support the internal activities of the companies, we offer institutional examination services with our academicians, in order to assess the competencies of the employees for advancement, the professional and psychological competencies of the middle echelon staff members. We also offer professional support through applying psychological tests in hiring, defining corporate training needs, analysing the outcomes of the training programmes attended by the employees, in terms of personal efficiency levels and institutional efficiency. In addition, we offer organization services to the companies which would like to hold various institutional meetings, seminars, conferences and events within their busy work schedule. Such services we offer provide the companies advantages which enable them to conduct their management processes in a more academic and objective way, which also enables time-saving since such duties require a remarkable part of the work hours of the related staff.” Through its new leaps TII is meeting the remarkable amount of the needs of the sector, while proving its success.

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TII Services are certified by “ISO 9001:200 Quality Certification”

Sustaining its activities within international standards and taking trust, quality and efficiency as the basis of its services, the TII was awarded the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Certification last September. About the quality certification, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suna Özyüksel Oksay, General Manager of TII, made the following statement: “As the TII staff, it is among our preferential targets, that our service focused activities add value to the sector. By this certification, the efficiency, quality and reliability of our services have been certified. Our responsibilities to the sector will continue with this understanding”.

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First Level of the Actuary Exams were held

The first level of the actuary exams were held in Marmara University School of Banking and Insurance in Istanbul, and Hacettepe University Department of Actuarial Sciences in Ankara. TII was the centre for the applications of the exams in Istanbul. According to the Regulation of Actuaries, which was published in the Official Gazette on 15 August 2007 with the number 26614, and came into force on 1 January 2008, the actuary exams should be held at least once a year.

The attendants who pass the first level of the exams will be able to attend the second level exams. The exams will be held on 19-20 October and 26-27 October. “2008 Actuary Exams Application Form and Guide Book” and “Contents of the 2008 Actuary Exams” which contain detailed information about the exams could be downloaded from the web page of the Undersecretariat of Treasury at www.hazine.gov.tr and from www.tsev.org.tr.

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TRAININGS

Registrations for 26th Term Basic Insurance Training Programme have begun

Registrations for the 2008-2009 26th Term Basic Insurance Training Programme continuing since the foundation of the Institute and from which 25 percent of Turkish insurance sector have graduated, have begun. As it was in the 25th Term, the two groups as morning and evening (working hours and after working hours) will begin on October 13.

The programme, offered with an experienced staff including academicians, professionals and experts from related institutions, is composed of two semesters as “Basic Insurance Training” and “Branch Trainings”. The branch trainings of the second semester include “Fire and Engineering Insurance”, “Casualty Insurance”, “Marine Insurance”, “Accountancy”, “Health Insurance” and “Life Insurance”.

The programme, which will take place at TII classroom in Tesvikiye, Ýstanbul, will be completed in June.

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Last Quarter of 2008 Short Term Training Programmes Begin

TII completed its preparations for last quarter of 2008 Short Term Training Programmes. The calendar of training programmes covering October-November-December is announced to the sector in September. Different from the previous terms, there are 43 training programmes in total with 26 new training programmes and 7 new lecturers. Professionals and academicians specialized in their fields will be lecturing at the training programmes prepared with the aim of meeting different needs with their rich contents.

There are various programmes within the scope of 2008 last quarter calendar covering from reinsurance to communication techniques, actuarial calculations to modeling, basic branch trainings to subjects of specialization. 4 new trainings aiming at the HR management processes have been included as different from the previous terms. October-November-December Term Short Term Training Programmes will commence on October 13th and will be completed on December 23rd.

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Developments of the Legislation are Followed at TII

TII is working in order for Turkish insurance sector to catch the rapid changes in the legislation. Legislation Harmonization Training Programmes, presented to the sector during the last quarter of 2008, with a loaded calendar, is composed of various subjects. The first programme will be “New Arrangements Introduced With the Insurance Agency Regulation and Its Consequences Within the Framework of the Recent Changes”, which was organized in June and which was then decided to be repeated due to the deep interest of the sector that it attracted. Following this programme, “Uniform Charts of Accounts, Related Insurance Accountancy and Related Legislation” training programme will be given by Mustafa Hamamcýoðlu, Head of Branch at the Undersecretariat of Turkish Treasury General Directorate of Insurance. Legislation Harmonization Training Programmes will continue in November and December.

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RESEARCH - PUBLICATIONS

We are expecting your articles for the 5th issue of Journal of Insurance Studies

Journal of Insurance Studies, published by TII, is the first and only refereed journal in Turkey on insurance in which the technical and/or theoretical issues in the agenda of the sector are analyzed.

In the “Articles Approved by the Science Committee” section of the journal, there are the articles written in accordance with the academic rules and qualified to be published by the Science Committee. In the “Articles not Submitted for the Approval of the Science Committee”, there are research, studies, analyses and interpretations of the academicians, bureaucrats, experts, students of insurance and actuary, which are approved by the editor. Articles relating to the issues and problems of the insurance sector in your country and in your region are welcomed. You may submit your articles in English, French or German.

Please contact Research, Publications, Projects and Career Unit (arastirma@tsev.org.tr) concerning the deadline, rules and regulations and other details.

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TII Private Employment Agency Specialized in Insurance has started its activities

TII Private Employment Agency, which aims at providing the sector with the qualified workforce in the shortest and the rightist way, has started its activities. TII Private Employment Agency is sharing its professional experience in the insurance sector through its services in the electing and placement of human resources. Since TII is an institution which has specialized in insurance, the quality and the efficiency of the services provided by the private employment agency are increasing.

TII Private Employment Agency is providing effective solutions to both the employers and the job seekers. Privileged advantages are provided in terms of finding the most suitable candidate searched in line with the criteria of the employer and the most suitable positions for the job seekers suitable with their needs.

TII Private Employment Agency is getting the employers and the job seekers together on the rightist point.
For the employers TII;

• Determines the workforce demands of the employers,
• Finds the suitable candidate for the needs and the position of the company,
• Provides training for the candidate in order to improve his / her qualifications, in case the candidate is not suitable for the position,

For job seekers;

• Provides employment possibilities suitable with his / her qualifications,
• Provides discounts to the new graduates each year in training programmes,
• Organizes informative seminars and trainings on the sector and companies to the new employees of the sector,
• Makes interviews in order to determine the qualifications of the job seeker, holds professional and psychometric tests.

TII Private Employment Agency provides electing and placement activities in line with the companies’ needs and HR policies, which take long time and need proficiency. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suna Özyüksel Oksay, TII General Manager, explains activity fields of the TII Private Employment Agency, which add value to the institutional development of the companies as follows: “TII Private Employment Agency is the single employment agency specialized in the sector. We have defined the activity fields of TII Private Employment Agency, in order to meet the expectations of the job seekers and the employers in a way to increase the quality of the employment of the sector, which is among our missions. Job seekers can send their cv’s to the CV Pool in TSEVKariyer web site, free of charge. According to the demand from the employers, the cv’s are scanned from the CV pool in the web site by our professional staff. We make two or three level interviews with the suitable candidates, and apply professional, psychometric, general capability tests. We bring the suitable candidates, which are determined following the interviews, together with the employers, in at most two weeks. In the end of the interviews, we provide services off-charge or with discount to the candidates, which are suitable with their needs and career plans, who are not qualified enough for the position.” 

TII Private Employment Agency brings appropriate standards to the services it provides for the job seekers. No service is provided for the current employees of the insurance sector. For the job seekers who have worked for the insurance sector before, in order to benefit from the services, it is necessary to be unemployed at least for two months. In case of resignation by the employee in six months or if the employer dismisses the employee in six months after hiring, TII Private Employment finds a new employee free of charge.

Information about the services of the TII Private Employment Agency could be achieved from www.tsev.org.tr web site. Job seekers who would like to take the career opportunity in the insurance sector could leave their cv’s by filling the blank cv format on TII web site.

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - PROJECTS

TII will report on the Turkish insurance sector to the insurance institutes in Europe

TII is invited to make a presentation at the European Conference of the National Institutes for Professional Insurance Education organized annually with the participation of insurance institutes in Europe in a closed session and to which TII had participated for the first time last year.

The Conference, hosted every year either by a national insurance institute or by a university, will take place on October 10-11, 2008 and will be hosted by the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. During this year’s Conference, TII will report on its activities as well as Turkish insurance sector, which is in the interest of the foreign insurance institutes as much as foreign investors.

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