Description: This article describes the Society's Special Committee on Career Consultation. This Committee was established with the charge to examine the feasibility and desirability of the Society's establishing a career consultation service, or placement service, to aid actuaries in obtaining the type of work which may be best suited to their potential capabilities.

Description: The minority program reached its goal for 1981. Our thanks to five companies and fifteen individual actuaries who saw the appeal in our December 1981 issue and responded with cheeks totalling $3,935 for the Minority Recruiting Program.

Description: This article discusses the lack of knowledge people in general have about actuaries and the actuarial profession and the unfair and inaccurate stereotypes that are associated with it.