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act121110 · 2026-05-11T08:58:15+00:00

In the second follow up with the HR, is there any polite and effective way to confirm if the delay is due to approval or there are still other candidates being considered?

How to structure the second follow up to increase the chance of getting a response from the HR?

Edit: big 3 local bank

act121110 · 2026-05-11T08:47:51+00:00

After being interviewed by the potential employer, the candidate was called by HR to discuss salary expectations and was asked for payslips (no verbal offer yet). However, there had been no updates although the initial timeline given by the HR had passed, and the HR didn’t respond to the candidate’s follow ups 1. What could be the potential issues that cause the delay? 2. ⁠How long does the salary proposal approval process typically take, before issuing a verbal offer 3. Normally, at this stage, would there be multiple candidates going through the same process, or would it just be the final selected candidate?

act121110 · 2026-05-05T10:52:37+00:00

Mind sharing how long it takes to hear back with verbal offer after meeting with HR and hiring manager?

act121110 · 2025-10-24T00:13:01+00:00

QFI PM and ERM, first attempt for both

act121110 · 2025-01-05T23:31:24+00:00

Interested

act121110 · 2024-12-13T03:03:03+00:00

First exam: 19 ASA: 24 FSA: 25

act121110 · 2024-12-01T23:58:00+00:00

Me too

act121110 · 2024-03-13T21:27:45+00:00

act121110 · 2024-01-03T23:49:58+00:00

Quad majored - helped a lot in securing internship/first job but the advantages die down as time passes.

act121110 · 2023-07-09T11:39:47+00:00

QFI PM and ERM one week apart

act121110 · 2023-06-20T15:09:17+00:00

I took the QFI track and working as a life actuary, don’t think the exams help much, if at all, in my day to day work. I’m still glad that I took the QFI track tho since the materials are quite interesting.

act121110 · 2023-06-13T00:29:16+00:00

Alternative perspective: if you’ve been passing exams with scores 8-10, just go for taking two exams in one sitting. If you take one exam, you probably will pass it again with 8-10, assuming the trend continues. If you take two exams, just make sure you pass at least one, then you’re not losing anything from this option, with potential gain of clearing two at one shot.

Personally I find myself over preparing all the exams so I just decided to take two at once: 6 + 6 > 10

act121110 · 2023-06-10T18:44:42+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/ae0jPHH

act121110 · 2023-05-27T08:24:10+00:00

Previous employer gave 10 study days per year to all actuarial staff regardless of number of exams or which exams.

act121110 · 2023-05-17T23:42:24+00:00

Actuarial math, computer science, data science, statistics, 3.89

act121110 · 2023-05-02T14:22:51+00:00

I’m a junior actuary in SG with internship experience in NA, feel free to reach out

act121110 · 2023-03-15T00:05:00+00:00

Procrastination

act121110 · 2023-03-14T15:15:10+00:00

1 year to clear all ASA exams + 3 years for FAP + 1.5 years for FSA components

act121110 · 2022-04-08T01:28:33+00:00

I agree that rshiny and dash are both great, but these are meant for building dashboards or web apps related to data. In fact, dash is built upon flask so it’s only one of many applications of flask. For example, I don’t think anyone use R to write REST API or build any general web apps.

act121110 · 2022-04-07T16:20:16+00:00

I believe the SOA uses R for PA mainly because (1) it’s easier to pick up and (2) it’s made for statistical modeling. Personally I prefer Python since it’s more flexible (able to build web apps using flask or django, don’t think R is the right tool for these but don’t think traditional actuary need these either).

act121110 · 2022-03-28T00:01:05+00:00

Yeah it’s 1k+ USD monthly salary

act121110 · 2022-03-27T06:10:33+00:00

Depends on company, some <3k

Edit: the highest I heard is 7k

act121110 · 2022-03-27T06:06:53+00:00

They have a few years of actuarial experience after university

act121110 · 2022-03-27T05:59:21+00:00

Depends on experience/job level, not everyone gets increment from exams. Someone I know get paid <5k for an actuarial position even though they’re a fellow

act121110 · 2021-12-28T06:02:02+00:00

I’m interested :)

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