Description: Create Exactly The Type Of Career You Want by Dan Coughlin from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, July 2002, Issue No. 8.

Description: Career planning

Description: An actuary's perspective on taking an overseas assignment.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?" This case study involved an actuary interviewing a candidate who seemed exceptional, until she started pushing back on the job level.

Description: The author discusses lessons and strategies he learned about selling from having a painful toothache.

Description: The author discusses how to enhance your career status, by setting yourself apart. This involves approaching your career as if it were your own business. The author notes that if you are a consultant, this way of thinking may not be a huge leap, but when you work for a company performing functions that are not directly revenue-producing, you may not have thought about this approach. The author then provides a checklist of seven essential steps to accomplish this. From ‘The Stepping Stone’ issue number 43.

Description: How to track your progress for career success.

Description: The author discusses the importance of setting goals and provides an update on achievements of the Management and Personal Development Section.

Description: This article gives suggestions for overcoming the design and presentation challenges of the 60-second personal networking or branding pitch.

Description: A discussion of how compassion and empathy, help us to move from "managing things" to "leading people". Also will ponder how we develop genuine compassion.