Drop your photograph, get a 200×230 px JPEG between 20 and 50 KB — the GIC Re Scale I upload format, minimum included. Nothing is uploaded; it all runs in your browser.
GIC Re — General Insurance Corporation of India, the government-owned national reinsurer and one of the ten largest reinsurance companies in the world — recruits Scale-I Officers (Assistant Managers) through a detailed advertisement on gicre.in (110 posts in the 2024–25 exercise), with an IBPS-style online form that takes four image uploads. The advertisement’s own scanning guidelines give the numbers. Photograph: a recent passport-style colour picture (4.5×3.5 cm) against a light-coloured, preferably white background, 200×230 pixels (preferred), 20 kb–50 kb — this page is preset to exactly that, minimum included. Caps, hats and dark glasses are not acceptable; religious headwear is allowed if it doesn’t cover the face; glasses are fine if there are no reflections and your eyes can be clearly seen. Signature: 10 kb–20 kb, black ink on white paper — capital-letter signatures are not accepted, and if what you sign on the attendance sheet or call letter doesn’t match the upload, you’re disqualified. Left thumb impression: black or blue ink on white paper, 20 kb–50 kb (right thumb if you don’t have a left one). Handwritten declaration: 50 kb–100 kb, written in English in your own hand in black ink, not in capitals — the exact sentence is printed in the advertisement, and visually-impaired candidates who cannot write may upload it typed with a thumb impression below. Everything must be jpg/jpeg, scanned at 200 dpi or better in true colour.
Here is where GIC’s advertisement differs from every other IBPS-family advert on this site: the signature, thumb and declaration share a single combined block with one line — “Dimensions 140 × 60 pixels (preferred)” — while the byte windows differ per image. There is no 240×240 thumb box and no 800×400 declaration box anywhere in the PDF; those are the IBPS-standard figures from SEBI/LIC/ECGC-style adverts, and at least one jobs blog pastes them into its GIC writeup as “3 cm × 3 cm” and “10 cm × 5 cm” boxes GIC never printed. Since 140×60 is stated as preferred rather than mandatory, a declaration scanned wider will normally pass the size check — but the byte windows are hard rules with an error message behind them, so aim at 10–20 / 20–50 / 50–100 kb and let the dims follow. The IBPS signature page is preset to 140×60 at 10–20 kb, which fits GIC’s signature exactly.
Further down, the guidelines offer an MS Paint / MS Office Picture Manager recipe and say file size “can be reduced below 50 kb (photograph and hand written declaration) & 20 kb (signature and left thumb impression)”. Follow that sentence literally and two uploads fail: the declaration’s own window is 50–100 kb — a declaration squeezed below 50 kb is under its floor — and the thumb’s window is 20–50 kb, so a thumb pushed below 20 kb under-floors too. The per-image windows are the spec; the shortcut paragraph is a paraphrase that slipped. PixFit handles the floors the honest way: it binary-searches JPEG quality to land inside the window, and if a clean scan encodes under the floor (small line-art like a thumb print often does), it pads the file with a spec-valid JPEG comment up to the minimum — no quality lost, no server involved.
Unlike SEBI, SIDBI, PFRDA, LIC or NIACL forms, GIC’s advertisement has no webcam or QR live-capture step — the photo you upload here is the photo of record. Identity checks happen at the exam instead: GIC captures your thumb impression and photograph at the venue (biometric attendance) and verifies them subsequently — the verification authority’s decision is final and binding. The advert’s own advice: wash and dry your fingers before the scan, and notify the centre if your left thumb is injured. You also affix a recent recognizable photograph on the call letter — preferably the same as the upload — and sign it in the invigilator’s presence, so keep spare prints of the photo you upload and don’t change your appearance between form and exam. And check everything before you finish: no change will be possible or entertained after clicking COMPLETE REGISTRATION.
In the 2024–25 exercise the fee was ₹1,000 + 18% GST, waived entirely for SC/ST, PH and all female candidates (and GIC/GIPSA employees) — a wider exemption than most of the family, matching PFRDA’s. Registration ran December 4–19, 2024 — a 16-day window, one of the shortest on this site — with the online exam on January 5, 2025; that cycle is complete, and this page is here for the next one (GIC has recruited officer batches periodically: 2014–15, 2021, 2024). Basic pay starts at ₹50,925 (about ₹85,000 a month gross), posting at head office in Mumbai. One caution about old numbers: GIC’s own 2014–15 advertisement allowed photos up to 300 kb — a guide recycling that era is 6× over today’s cap. The advertisement for the cycle you apply in, on gicre.in, is the authority. The near-identical IBPS photo, signature, ECGC PO and NIACL sets have their own pages. Everything here runs in your browser — your photo, signature, thumb print and handwriting never leave your device.
Spec sources: GIC Re’s own detailed advertisement PDF “Recruitment of Scale I Officers”, Ref GIC-HO/HR/Recruit_Scale1/874/2024-25 dated 04-Dec-2024 (35 pp), from the careers page on www.gicre.in — “Guidelines for scanning and upload of documents” plus the application-procedure and biometric-attendance sections, read August 2026. Photo 200×230 px (preferred) 20–50 kb; signature 10–20 kb; left thumb 20–50 kb; declaration 50–100 kb; one shared “140×60 (preferred)” dims line for those three; jpg/jpeg, 200 dpi true colour. The advertisement for the cycle you apply in — and the upload screen itself — win over this page.