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Actuarial Science
* Skills and Abilities - What are the skills and abilities needed for careers in Actuarial Science

* Potential Career Paths - a list of possible career path and links to potential employers

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Skills & Abilities
  • Applying theory to solve problems
  • Determining relevant or extraneous information
  • Identifying relationships between problems and solutions
  • Explaining ideas
  • Describing problem-solving methods in non-technical language
  • Translating statistics/formulas into words
  • Computer programming
  • Analyzing statistics
  • Reasoning by analogy
  • Thinking/reasoning abstractly
  • Comparing information and data
  • Analytical and quantitative skills

Potential Career Paths
Career Area Employment Settings Sample Employer and Internship Sites
INSURANCE
Actuarial
Sales
Underwriting
Insurance companies

MetLife

Equitable


AIG


Prudential
BUSINESS
Management Consulting Consulting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers
Actuarial Consulting firms Towers Perrin
Financial Services Financial services companies American Express Financial Services
Business Analysis Consulting firms




Watson Wyatt

Segal Company

Buck Consultants

Hewitt Associates LLC
GOVERNMENT
Actuarial
Statistical
Research
State and federal agencies     NYS Department of Labor

U.S. Departments of Defense, Labor, Justice, Agriculture, Health and Human Services,
Transportation, Commerce,Treasury, & NASA

Library of Congress
SECURITIES
Sales
Research
Operations
Brokerage firms
Commercial banks
Insurance companies
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Chase Manhattan Bank

State Farm Insurance
BANKING
Credit Lending
Operations
Systems
Trusts
Commercial banks
Regional banks
Savings & loan associations
KeyBank

Chase Manhattan Bank
COMPUTERS
Programming (Systems or Software) Computer hardware and software firms BitWise Design Inc. (Schenectady)
Systems analysis Individual corporations
Consulting firms
New York Stock Exchange

Ernst & Young
Data processing and information systems Non-profit agencies
Corporations
Hadassah

NPD Group
Software
Hardware
Service companies
Manufacturing firms
Government - federal, state, local
Banking, insurance and real estate
Wholesale and retail trade firms
Standard software suppliers
Custom software builders
Turnkey contractors
Standard hardware firms
Raytheon

Lucent Technologies


Deloitte Consulting


Boston Consulting Group

American Association for the Advancement of Science/N


Bloomberg

IBM
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