ISBN(s): 979-8-89016-235-9
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By choosing this book, you will learn how to DESIGN YOUR FUTURE! This book is built around the career paths for actuarial science and the fundamental competencies needed for a successful career as an actuary—competencies designed by actuaries for actuaries as engaged by the Society of Actuaries. Written as a guide for your career and life, you will gain insights and direction through the diversity of careers and lives from a variety of over twenty-five contributing actuaries. You will also gain state-of-the-art reference to resources outside the Society of Actuaries to guide you in learning how your talents, strengths, and personality contribute to a noble purpose and career that is fulfilling and unique to you and aligned with the Society of Actuaries Competency Framework. Throughout the book, the mission is to align the skills, behavior, knowledge, attitudes and attributes that lead to outstanding performance through excellence in technical and non-technical competencies for success and satisfaction in your actuarial career.
Design Your Future with this powerful tool and you will:
- Learn about the SOA Competency Framework and how to engage it in support of your career.
- Understand the value-added context to use competency for optimal career and professional development through purpose and direction, talents and personality, emotional and social intelligence, and qualification and performance.
- Develop creativity through building versatile skills and broad knowledge to advance your career.
- Learn from the stories by individual actuaries of career breakthroughs resulting from specific competencies as examples to follow.
- Internalize the roles of volunteering, mentoring and collaboration, as attested by over 25 prominent actuaries from the international actuarial community to guide your career decisions.
- Identify one's personal noble purpose, through the study of heroes, people whose creativity is defined by the versatility and breadth of their domains of endeavor.
- From these heroes and mentors, learn the example of personal courage, influence, leveraging talents to colleagues, a strong ethical foundation and the capacity to make moral judgments.
- Tap into your personal noble purpose and craft your plan to design your future.
About the Authors
Richard Junker
Mr. Junker has spoken and conducted workshops at numerous actuarial meetings, served on the examination committee of the Society of Actuaries and taught classes to students of life insurance mathematics. He served as president of the Actuarial Club of Indianapolis and was a co-editor of the Society of Actuaries’ Technology Section newsletter. Over June 2013 through June 2021, he conducted workshops and made presentations with Curtis Robbins at the Southeastern Actuaries Conference and Society of Actuaries Annual Meetings on the topic of the Competency Framework, the centerpiece of the Society of Actuaries’ program for promoting post-fellowship continuing education of actuaries. In September 2020, he embarked on a singular adventure in retirement living by moving to Frankfurt, Germany, to be near his son Brian, a German citizen, and to immerse himself in international living.
Curtis Lee Robbins
Mr. Robbins has a strong passion in support of professional and personal development for actuaries. During his career of over 30 years, Curtis developed his competencies through work in management and with government personnel as well as company associates in the U.S. and internationally. In the latter part of his career, his vocational interests culminated while supporting professional development for actuaries at Humana. Curtis also grew in leadership and team development while volunteering with various SOA project oversight groups. Beginning in 2013, Curtis and Rich Junker have continuously teamed as volunteer champions for the SOA Competency Framework.
Testimonials
“A must-read for the Modern Actuary and their communities! Chocked full of practical insights as well as visionary aspiration, Rich and Curtis have given us a gift to ignite growth and fuel fresh thinking. Design Your Future with the Competency Framework supports the rise of the Modern Actuary who transforms, reimagines and translates complexity into action with a voice and a story that is warm, compelling and relatable. Time to put on your ‘Superhero Capes,’ lead with purpose and drive the Actuarial Profession to new heights in a single bold bound!”
-- Margaret Resce Milkint, Global Insurance Practice Leader, Diversified Search Group
“Actuaries have traditionally played an integral role in providing technical, data-driven support to inform key decision-making. Organizations inherently face challenges of evaluating risk relative to return to inform strategy; evolving competitive and regulatory pressures enhance the significance of this mandate. Consequently, the skillsets of actuaries must adapt with commensurate versatility. The Competency Framework characterizes comprehensive success parameters that coincide with the SOA’s mission to advance the actuarial profession’s capacity to evolve its value proposition to drive more organizational value. Junker and Robbins take a pragmatic approach to demystifying contributing factors that help to advance this mission.”
-- Roy Ju, FSA, CERA, MAAA, Chief Risk Officer, Sagicor Life Insurance Company USA
“Just as there is a great variety of actuarial companies, teams, practice areas, problems to solve, workstreams, objectives and goals, so is there a variety of individual preferences, personalities, dreams, skills, and personal situations of Actuaries. We do not and should not strive to be the same, as we are each uniquely positioned to drive success within our organizations and profession. With the Competency Framework, you can identify and develop your own unique space—and build a spectacular and rewarding career, showcase your strengths, and change the world.”
-- Christine Hofbeck, FSA, MAAA, Author of Winning Conditions, Vice President of Actuarial Development, Fortitude Re
“Identifying your own Noble Purpose as an actuary and in your life makes creating a five-year plan for personal growth meaningful and motivating. The Society of Actuaries has as one of its main initiatives 'Spotlight Societal Purpose'. In our day-to-day work lives, setting prices, determining reserves and so on, we must remember that we provide humanity great social good. The actuarial profession globally is estimated at about 80,000 individuals; but the work that we do provides financial security for several millions of people around the world. This is the Noble Purpose that this book addresses.”
-- John Robinson, FSA, FCA, MAAA, President, Society of Actuaries (2022-2023), President & Chief Actuary at Robinson Associates LLC