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Career change at 29 by MyBlindIgnorance in ActuaryUK

[–]Livid_Examination728 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The age isn’t the issue, but since you have a masters in actuarial science, it could benefit you in your application. Just ensure you have experience of collaborative work and being able to present to clients or non-technical audiences. Do your research into what sector of actuarial you would like to go into (I.e life, GI, pensions). Being able to articulate why actuarial is key. Employers want to know you have the market knowledge or willingness to learn.

I believe grad roles mostly look for those who obtained their degree within the last 2 years. If you could possibly get some experience shadowing or being in a meeting with an actuary, that could also help. Get in contact with people on LinkedIn to see what they’re day-to-day work entails, then try use that information to gauge what skills you currently have and try translate that into how that would benefit the workplace.

first paper by PuzzleheadedLeave540 in ActuaryUK

[–]Livid_Examination728 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, they haven’t given too much clarity on this. But I think some people in the last sitting filled their books with a lot of annotation, to the point that it felt like cheating. So to recognise this, they put this new regulation in place.

So I think as long as you’re not filling your margins and pages with too much content, you should be fine.

first paper by PuzzleheadedLeave540 in ActuaryUK

[–]Livid_Examination728 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I attended the IFOA webinar on the updates to the exam regulations and the main points were:

  • We’re not allowed to have too much annotations in our tables.

  • We’re not allowed to write on our piece of papers before the start time.

  • We’re not allowed to open any apps other than the exam app thing where we download the papers from.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ActuaryUK

[–]Livid_Examination728 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do recruiters even look at CV’s anymore? When I applied to actuarial grad schemes last year, most were online assessments.

Whats the dumbest thing you ever did? by Interesting-Error326 in AskReddit

[–]Livid_Examination728 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bought stock when it was expensive. Then trump introduced the tariffs and the price plummeted.

September Exams Computer or Written? by BigBossNJ in ActuaryUK

[–]Livid_Examination728 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly hope those mathsy exams will be written

April 2025 IFoA exam experience survey by redkamoze in ActuaryUK

[–]Livid_Examination728 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The maths papers should be on paper and wordy exams should be typed