Description: Author shares perspectives on the advantages and importance of working abroad in career development.

Description: An article that explains the importance of lifelong learning--education shouldn't stop once you've attained your FSA.

Description: This article summarizes the discussion from the spring meeting session: Managing Your Career Within a Traditional Employee Setting. Perspectives are shared from a consultant's view, and within an insurance company.

Description: This article stresses the importance of continually assessing your business skills and outlines the most important skills for development.

Description: Summary of articles in the 2018 April issue of SOA AOF newsletter.

Description: Cassie He and Linda Liu, two actuarial students, invite Mark Freedman, the President-Elect of SOA to share with us his experience as an actuary, the challenges and opportunities facing actuaries and the outlook for the profession as SOA president.

Description: By relating to his own experience, Steven Chin reveals the meaning of networking and how it can affect one's life. His advice helps guide us on how to interact in a business setting and find mentorship within and outside the actuarial community.

Description: As actuaries, we learn about risk. We identify, quantify and assess risks. Ironically, however, because of our training we don’t see the greatest risk to our profession. The risk is: Our relevance and value to our customers is already and will continue to be diminished if we don’t make some fundamental changes now.

Description: The chairperson provides an update of the Future Section's areas of focus: Career Pioneer Program, Critical Skills Education and Risk Management Opportunities.

Description: Q&A with recruiters from DW Simpson discussing the current actuarial job market and anticipated future changes.