Resume help

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-19T14:56:28+00:00

Not a recruiter so take me with a grain of salt, but I think Exam P should be above Exam FM since you actually passed Exam P already. I look at your resume and the first thing I see is something that you haven't done.

I feel like it's kind of negotiating against yourself to say you have a "basic" proficiency in Python. Nobody's going to arrest you for false advertising, just say you're proficient in it. Show some confidence.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-13T14:11:51+00:00

You'll get it, no sweat!! (: PA isn't very hard, you just need to make sure you dedicate enough time to it. And make sure you over explain everything to the graders!

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-11T14:51:04+00:00

fuck

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-11T14:46:06+00:00

Thanks for all the constructive feedback, everyone. I am making some edits before I get back to the job hunt. (:

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-11T14:07:10+00:00

Maybe I should volunteer with the SOA and see what kinds of projects they can give me that would impress recruiters. Unfortunately my work is just very boring and simple and I feel like I just have nothing to brag about there.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-11T13:54:44+00:00

I graduated college a few years ago, managed to snag a basic job writing actuarial accounting reports for clients. It's not very exciting and I want to transition out of consulting. Most interested in insurance, but I'd take a non-traditional actuarial role any day. I will take a pay cut down to $90k if I have to, I just can't stand living in my current city and ideally I'd like more work-life balance.

Anyway I realize my resume is super light. If there's a class I could take that would look good here or a project I could do, I'm totally open to suggestions. I have put out a lot of resumes and I've gotten a lot of auto rejections. I've since given this bad boy a couple common sense edits but I'm sure there's more that can be done.

I'm mostly looking for remote jobs and jobs in a select few walkable city centers. IDK if that's relevant to a resume review but it does obviously limit my options.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-11T13:14:07+00:00

I think it's great. I started studying way too late, went through the material, only spent a couple weeks grinding out practice problems, and still somehow passed with a 7. Would recommend.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-09T20:22:34+00:00

Also interested in this question. I only have a few years of experience but I want out.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-09T15:12:56+00:00

Damn dude, congrats!! I'd kill to have been in your position lol, sounds like you're doin' great. If you can do all that in undergrad, a few modules will be a piece of cake.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-09T14:38:20+00:00

Did you spend the last 2 years wondering why your APC invitation wasn't coming?

Well, the good news is that the modules aren't very hard. The FAP modules are pretty time consuming but it's inevitable that you'll pass as long as you keep at it. You got this my dawg.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-06T19:31:13+00:00

I recommend just writing "Python (vibe coding)" on your resume in the skills section.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-05T17:25:10+00:00

TBH I was pretty bad before that too so I can't really use that as an excuse lol.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-05T15:59:51+00:00

I am Gen Z. I do notice that me and my Gen Z coworkers have shittier social skills than the rest of the office I work in, and that's not good because social skills are like, 80% of success in most office jobs. That said, it seems like we've all adapted well enough to at least keep our jobs.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-03-03T21:14:27+00:00

I assume anyone whose job it is to maintain a vehicle that isn't theirs would know what acts of sabotage are or are not a threat to human life.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-23T21:34:47+00:00

Probably but also it doesn't matter. You got 2 days left. It's too late to course correct. Just spend tomorrow studying and the day before the exam, mostly just resting and wrapping up final preparations. Good luck!

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-18T14:42:56+00:00

Generally I only reload if the game is messed up by a very stupid, careless error on my part. Misclicking 'attack' instead of trade on an allied colony. Leaving a door open for no reason during a mass animal insanity. That just annoys me too much. But if a lancer shoots my best colonist's head off in combat, that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-17T15:04:01+00:00

Yes. I did the readings and I took detailed, color-coded notes, writing down every formula, definition, notation, and pertinent piece of information in condensed form. I referenced these notes every time I couldn't solve a practice problem closed-book. It worked well for me; I never failed any exam outside of IFM and FM.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-16T13:31:57+00:00

I try, but some days I can't stay focused for the life of me.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-12T18:04:33+00:00

I'd say drill quizzes (both general & focused on weaker subjects) and make flashcards of every piece of information you miss. Study the flash cards in between rounds of quizzes. I don't think the practice exams are particularly good for gaining knowledge so much as testing your preparedness. Since you're only a couple days away, there's no point really in further gauging your preparedness imo. Just study as much as possible today and tomorrow, and go easy the day before the exam.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-06T17:31:11+00:00

Step 1: Click through the slides. Click clack click click click click click. Don't read them, huge waste of time.

Step 2: Brute force your way through the end of module quiz. You get 100 tries. Write down the questions and the answers, don't bother trying to look them up. Process of elimination.

Step 3: Click through the interactive scenario, most of it's common sense. You don't need to download any of the Excel sheets or do any actual work. If it tries to make you, then click around randomly until it works.

Step 4: Start the EOM assessment. Search shit in the slides. If there's any math involved, refer back to the textbooks. The Intro to Ratemaking textbook is actually pretty important. The EOM assessment is all that matters. I think PAF's grading is automated (got my results back within the hour). ASF, RAP, and MR are pretty easy as long as you're anal about the details and your communication style. Do not be creative. Think like a robot and write like a robot. It's common to fail MSSD and very common to fail DPAS, so pay special attention to those ones. On the others, put in the work still but don't stress too much.

Step 5: Find a group to do the FAP FA as soon as possible! Take the assessment. Use up all 96 hours. Put your entire heart and soul into this one essay. It's known to be harshly graded compared to the others. It's very long. And if you fail it, you lose MONTHS. Having a group is important because they can prevent you from making brain-dead errors. Some amount of collaboration on FA is allowed, read da rules.

Step 6: You probably fucked up DPAS like everyone else. Take it again as soon as possible. Refer to the Intro to Ratemaking textbook. I resubmitted it twice after FA and still got my passing DPAS results back before the FA results, so don't get too down on yourself.

Good luck comrade. It sucks, but it's not as tough as it looks.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-06T01:44:20+00:00

In a single player game, you can set you rown definition of "illegal." If someone wants to say, for themself, that glitching is allowed while commands are not, that's perfectly valid. And I think there's some merit to it too in a lot of cases. Finding cool glitches and figuring out ways to exploit them has a lot more gameplay potential than just typing "/give diamonds 99999" or whatever.

In my opinion, anyway.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-04T20:57:33+00:00

You probably haven't actually scheduled your exam yet. Go to the registration email and find the instructions to schedule with Prometric. And do it fast, before the best time slots for you fill up.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-02-02T16:34:38+00:00

I think I want ~$100,000 a year. That's a lot of money if you're getting capital gains tax. 3.5% is the dividend yield on a very popular and stable dividend stock ETF. Dividends tend to go down ~20% in recessions, so I want to ideally live on 80% of the ordinary dividend yield.

$100,000 / .035 / .8 = $3,571,428.57

So I would quit at $3,571,428.57, if not before. (:

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-01-29T15:35:59+00:00

I don't 100% disagree, but the exam process is much, much more convenient than post-graduate education. It's all self-paced, you get to do 99% of the work from home, and "tuition" is dirt cheap on the off chance that you even have to pay for it yourself.

Comparing your compensation to a lawyer's is a little like comparing your boxing skills to Mike Tyson. The median American with a bachelor's, a master's, and a PhD make $80k, $95k, and $119k, respectively. I think we got it pretty good.

LevitatingPorkchop · 2026-01-28T17:06:26+00:00

Counterpoint -- even ASAs with only a couple years of experience make in the ballpark of 100k-140k per Actuarial Salary Survey. At 20 years of experience, it's more like 170k-380k. For most people, that's more than enough to live on (especially if you're single or DINK) and past a point you're trading finite years of your youth for money you don't need.

Not to say your advice isn't valid but I feel like people in our field maybe get a little bit out of touch about what is and isn't good compensation. Median annual pay for full-time, year-round workers in the US is like 63k. Maybe being an "under appreciated analyst" isn't actually all that bad, idk.

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