Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. The main objective of this session is to let you know just how wide the range of activities is for actuaries and to discuss how an actuary can find his niche in this broad spectrum of activity and pick out that nontraditional role that will make him happy and that will be rewarding and exciting.

Description: Interview with Mel Windham, winner of Second Best Overall Story award from 10th Speculative Fiction Contest.

Description: The author discusses how your actuarial education can be used in other fields.

Description: The author details his career journey from math teacher to actuary.

Description: Undoubtedly you have heard and read a lot about the Society’s Image Campaign, which launched into full gear this year. As a member of the Actuary of the Future AOF Section you have heard and read about the Actuarial Pioneer or Career Pioneer program and its continuing evolution. These two initiatives fit together very well, and our section council has established them as two of our top priorities for the next year as we continue to lend support and leadership to developing these efforts.

Description: The author reviews his career and espouses the need to embrace and encourage the development of additional skill sets.

Description: This is an interview with Thomas P. Bowles regarding his 1978 run for Congress.

Description: The SOA provides information about the actuarial career path in health care and predictive analytics. Throughout 2016, we will share more about actuaries who are tackling some of the industry's biggest challenges and hear from top employers in healthcare analytics.

Description: Carol McCall led three teams – predictive analytics, health economics and outcomes research, and personalized medicine. The “river running through them” was that they all leveraged data. Her predictive analytics team eventually built a broad portfolio of models with some of them having a significant impact on Humana’s top and bottom lines.