If you're a risk professional, your job is to keep your company out of trouble, keep its employees safe, and make sure its products arrive at their destinations intact. A recent college graduate can learn those skills. (Shutterstock) If you're a risk professional, your job is to keep your company out of trouble, keep its employees safe, and make sure its products arrive at their destinations intact. A recent college graduate can learn those skills. (Shutterstock)

It's May, the month when many are making plans to attend college commencements.

Those graduates are taking their new diplomas with them in search of careers — or at least gainful employment. I'd like to see them consider insurance, but I know it has the reputation of being stodgy.

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Rosalie Donlon

Rosalie Donlon is the editor in chief of ALM's insurance and tax publications, including NU Property & Casualty magazine and NU PropertyCasualty360.com. You can contact her at [email protected].