Announcement: SOA releases passing candidate numbers for April 2024 Exam PA.

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  • Recognizing Excellence: The SOA Outstanding Educator Award in Actuarial Science
    prize as a token of appreciation for the recipient’s outstanding efforts and contributions to actuarial ... education of actuarial science students. The E&R council’s intentions are threefold: To encourage a healthy balance ...

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    • Authors: Russell Hendel, Stefanos Orfanos, Fang Yang
    • Date: Aug 2023
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Academic partnerships; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • What Would You Do? Responses to “Hiring For Success”
    is presented to a real life situation. This issue’s case study involved a candidate for an actuarial position ... “don’t hire” to “why is her reaction relevant?” Here’s one at the latter end of the range: You had better ...

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    • Authors: John West Hadley
    • Date: Dec 2022
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Mentoring; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • Attending In-person Conference Events After COVID-19
    LDTI to offshore reinsurance. As the chair of SOA’s Actuary of the Future section, I was also an attendee ... on a traffic light system that indicated a person’s degree of comfort with physical contact. The best ...

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    • Authors: Arthur da Silva
    • Date: Jan 2023
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: Actuary of the Future
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • How to Identify and Hire Creative, Problem-Solving Employees
    to persuade. Question 4 can exhibit the candidate’s creativity as well as thinking off-the-cuff. (It also ... to articulate as well as adeptness to think on-one’s-feet. Effective communication skills are another highly ...

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    • Authors: Lori Weyuker
    • Date: Dec 2021
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • How to Show Employees That You Care, and Why it Matters
    type of data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s an increase from only 17 percent in April 2020. Employee ... quitting costs a company 33 percent of the employee’s salary. In addition to hard dollars such as costs ...

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    • Authors: Lori Weyuker
    • Date: Dec 2021
    • Competency: Communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • Beyond Technical Proficiency: The Role of Soft Skills in Embracing Agility
    embracing agility to propel actuarial success in today's market. Career planning, professional development ... McArthur The Stepping Stone, November 2023 In today’s evolving insurance industry, the actuarial profession ...

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    • Authors: Carolyn McArthur
    • Date: Nov 2023
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Competencies; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • The Deepest of Work Meetings
    as a leader, that it's okay to admit you're not okay even at work, and that it's important to find informal ... demonstrated insight into each other’s personalities, each other’s best qualities, and it was evident to ...

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    • Authors: Mitchell Stephenson
    • Date: Nov 2023
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Entrepreneurism; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Mentoring; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • Actuarial Modernization on a Shoestring Budget
    Actuarial Modernization on a Shoestring Budget Actuarial functions are being asked to ... scanning the first few rows or running a quick summary table can validate data accuracy and integrity. This can ...

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    • Authors: Amy Nelson, Nathan Dennis Pohle, Vance Forrest
    • Date: Mar 2024
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: Actuary of the Future
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • The (He)art of Persuasion
    of author and social scientist Robert B. Cialdini’s publication on “Harnessing the Science of Persuasion ... logical, rational nature of persuasion, Cialdini’s quote suggests that persuading another person is truly ...

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    • Authors: Kelly Hennigan
    • Date: Jul 2021
    • Competency: Communication
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • Is Virtual Speaking Here to Stay? The “New Inevitable” of Public Speaking Realities for Actuaries Who Love to Speak
    great speakers ourselves! This article explores what's next in our newly virtual world of public speaking ... to stay: New Speaking Reality #1: Virtual Speaking’s not Going Anywhere Whether via Zoom, Google Meet, ...

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    • Authors: Ken Lizotte
    • Date: Aug 2022
    • Competency: Communication; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: Innovators & Entrepreneurs
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Environment