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Taking calculated risks in your career whilst still studying for professional actuarial exams
This is an adaptation of a talk I first presented at the Young Actuaries Conference on the 29 May 2018 in Sydney.
If you’re more visual you can watch this plenary session and panel Q&A on Knowledge Sharing via this YouTube link and if you’d prefer just the audio you can listen here.
Today I’m going to talk about my story and the three areas I found useful in how I’ve moved directionally in my career so you can find some ideas and adjust them accordingly for your next steps in your career.
I graduated from UNSW with a Bachelor of Commerce (my majors were Actuarial Studies and Finance) and started my career as a graduate at Zurich. I spent a couple of years in pricing and a couple of years in reserving. At the same time I was sitting exams and I was building my character by failing and subsequently passing exams.
The exams were quite consuming to my headspace. I developed this pattern, habit and vortex of intensely studying for 3 months, the rhetoric I’d often think was “I’ll postpone it to after the exam or when I qualify”. And then reality set…