Description: The authors take up two questions: • How do I create my Personal Development Plan? • How will the Competency Framework tool help me design my future?

Description: How to approach the phone interview to convey competence and collaboration for an edge in this very important part of the job acquisition process.

Description: Issue introduction and theme of how to improve our technical skills and soft skills to better cope with a rapidly changing world.

Description: Emails are to the business world what cars are to a road trip: we can't get anywhere without them. This article offers 6 specific strategies to write emails more effectively. The theme is that re-reading your emails to check for a clear goal, conciseness, appropriate tone, etc. is a worthwhile time investment as it saves your reader time and prevents problems caused by miscommunication.

Description: Discusses the outcome of AOF council Face-to-Face meeting, and direction for the coming year.

Description: Provides a simplified explanation of the modeling and statistical terms currently in use by the profession, and provides a list of publications worth reading in regards to complexity science plus a list of free software.

Description: Leadership skills

Description: This article has been reprinted from the first issue of the Actuary of the Future newsletter.

Description: Discusses the professional development advantages of volunteering, particularly with the SOA.

Description: The SOA’s Professional Development Committee and its five areas of interest this year.