COMPANY PREPARATION GUIDEPreparing for a job at Aon
Preparing for Aon means learning how its Risk Capital and Human Capital work helps clients make better decisions about uncertainty, people and long-term commitments.
What Aon is known for
Aon advises organisations through Risk Capital services such as broking, reinsurance, claims management and risk analytics.
Its Human Capital work spans health and benefits, pensions and retirement, talent and rewards, and workforce analytics.
The firm connects specialist expertise with collaborative client service across locations including London, Dublin, New York and Chicago.
What tends to matter at Aon
The capabilities that shape most roles here, and how to get ready for each.
Decision-focused advice
Aon's purpose centres on improving decisions, not simply presenting insurance or people data.
How to prepare: Practise explaining a recommendation, the uncertainty behind it and the practical choice it gives a client.
Risk transfer judgement
Broking, reinsurance and risk retention require different ways of thinking about a client's exposure.
How to prepare: Compare when an organisation might transfer, retain or reduce a risk, stating what information you would need before advising.
People strategy context
Health, retirement and talent decisions affect both workforce needs and an organisation's longer-term plans.
How to prepare: Connect a relevant people metric to a decision about benefits, pensions or talent, including its limitations.
Collaborative client delivery
Aon's specialist services often benefit from people combining perspectives across risk, analytics and human capital.
How to prepare: Choose an example where you coordinated specialists, resolved different priorities and kept the client's decision in view.
The MinTraq readiness lens for Aon
MinTraq measures readiness in four areas. Here is how each one applies at Aon.
Build depth in the discipline your role serves, then connect it to Aon's advisory work: risk transfer for broking, or workforce decisions for Human Capital. Be clear about where specialist input is needed.
Practise responding when a client needs a recommendation despite incomplete information or competing objectives. Explain what you would clarify, what you can say confidently and when you would involve another specialist.
For roles leading client work or teams, prepare examples of bringing distinct expertise together without losing accountability for a clear recommendation.
For analytics-oriented work, be ready to explain how AI might support pattern detection or summarise information while human review protects the quality of client advice.
Same company, different preparation
Preparing for Aon is not one thing. What you need to show depends on the role you want.
Risk and insurance advisory
Concentrate on exposure, claims, broking or reinsurance and show how you would compare risk retention with transfer for a client facing uncertain costs.
Prepare for this role →Human Capital advisory
Focus instead on benefits, retirement or talent decisions, connecting workforce evidence to practical choices while recognising different employee needs.
Prepare for this role →Analytics and client support
Emphasise data quality, clear interpretation and coordination: your contribution may be to make complex risk or people information usable for advisers and clients.
Prepare for this role →How MinTraq builds your Aon preparation
- 1Choose your target roleTell us the role you want at Aon, and your current experience.
- 2Take a calibrated assessmentFunctional knowledge, situational judgement, leadership where relevant, and AI readiness, weighted for Aon and that role.
- 3See your gap analysisA clear view of your strongest areas and the gaps that matter most, not a generic score.
- 4Close the gapsLearning pathways built from your own gaps, not a one-size-fits-all course list.
- 5Rehearse with MiraPractise interviews with Mira, our interview practice partner, prepared for Aon and your role.
Aon at a glance
Common questions about preparing for Aon
Should I prepare for Risk Capital and Human Capital in the same way?
Start with the area your role supports, since the subject matter differs substantially. In either area, practise turning specialist knowledge into a decision a client can understand.
What if my background is technical rather than client-facing?
Prepare a concrete example of how your analysis changed a recommendation or clarified uncertainty. Aon candidates benefit from explaining limitations as clearly as findings.
How can MinTraq help me prepare for Aon?
MinTraq builds a preparation journey around Aon and the role you want. It measures your readiness, shows the gaps that matter most for that role, recommends learning for those gaps and lets you rehearse interviews with Mira, MinTraq's interview practice partner.
MinTraq is an independent career preparation platform and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Aon.