Promoting the Profession
Timeline – Our History: How Actuaries Have Turned Risk
Into Opportunity
How did actuaries become the leading risk experts? This interactive timeline, created by North American actuarial organizations, celebrates the profession’s key milestones and provides examples of ways that actuaries have shaped business, political and societal trends throughout the history of the profession. Explore this interactive timeline and learn more about the events that have made the profession what it is today.
Explaining the Role of the Profession. And our value. Have you ever been in a professional conversation with a peer or run into a C-suite member and wished that you knew the best way to explain exactly what it is that actuaries do and how it benefits today’s businesses?
This Scenario Planning tool outlines a variety of situations where these types of questions may come up, and provides sample ways to talk about your work and the profession. You certainly don’t need to use these answers verbatim, but hopefully they’ll give you some new ideas about ways you can quickly highlight your credentials and the unique role actuaries play in today’s business world.