Description: One person's tips on how actuaries can be successful at selling their actuarial services.

Description: This article offers several broad definitions of an actuary that could apply in both traditional and non-traditional roles.

Description: This article focuses on Jeffrey J. Nohl, who started his career as a credit insurance actuary. Nohl moved from the familiar insurer side of health care to the provider side. He is now the president of Aurora Health Network.

Description: The author believes actuaries are well versed in techniques that can easily be applied to many issues outside the insurance industry and a task force has been established to examine Capital Projects as a practice area into which actuaries can expand.

Description: One of two articles in this issue about actuaries serving as expert witnesses.

Description: In this article about professional development, the new competency network is descibed and and emerging job opportunities in health care analytics are discussed.

Description: This article describes the results of a survey of 27 members of the Society holding nontraditional jobs. These actuaries were contacted by the Society’s Career Encouragement Committee’s Subcommittee on Actuarial Opportunities, and the results are interesting. All of the individuals have maintained their membership, yet some of them are in fields which are not very actuarial, such as physician and one who builds restaurants for a fast food chain.

Description: This article is part of a series that periodically highlights personal careers and offers new perspectives on actuarial job paths. It features John R. Thompson, one of two deputy superintendents in Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. In addition, he chairs the executive committee of an international organization that sets standards for insurance supervisors worldwide.

Description: Article from The Actuary, February 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 2 provides a review of an article in the September, 1971 issue of Operations Research, the scientific journal of the Operations Research Society of America ORSA. The reviewer points out the similarities between the actuarial profession and Operations Research as both professions are involved with analytic methods in planning, managing, and evaluating complex systems.

Description: This article from SOA president David Holland, speaks to the need of the actuarial profession to consistently evolve with the needs of the 21st century.