waado
08-03-2011, 06:19 PM
Hi,
I am a last year student in a very good university in Canada. I am in the Management faculty, majoring in finance & economics, with a minor in math or stats (not decided yet). I want to be an actuary. I passed P in May and will hopefully pass FM in August. Unfortunately my university does not have an actuarial science program and therefore, firms do not, to the best of my
knowledge, recruit actuaries from here.
So here is the thing. I have been elected on the Board of Directors of the main student association of the faculty as math/stats area representative. Each are rep has the mandate to do something for his academic area. As business students studying math are quite rare, they don’t get a lot of attention from career services. So I’ve decided to change that, focusing mainly on the actuarial profession.
So my question is what can I do? What do universities with actuarial science programs offer students that I could maybe push for in the coming year? So far I’ve learned that there is a recruitment cocktail organized for actuarial science students exclusively in my city in another university. So I will try to get an invitation for interested students from my university. But what else? How can I attract firms to my university?
Thanks a lot
I am a last year student in a very good university in Canada. I am in the Management faculty, majoring in finance & economics, with a minor in math or stats (not decided yet). I want to be an actuary. I passed P in May and will hopefully pass FM in August. Unfortunately my university does not have an actuarial science program and therefore, firms do not, to the best of my
knowledge, recruit actuaries from here.
So here is the thing. I have been elected on the Board of Directors of the main student association of the faculty as math/stats area representative. Each are rep has the mandate to do something for his academic area. As business students studying math are quite rare, they don’t get a lot of attention from career services. So I’ve decided to change that, focusing mainly on the actuarial profession.
So my question is what can I do? What do universities with actuarial science programs offer students that I could maybe push for in the coming year? So far I’ve learned that there is a recruitment cocktail organized for actuarial science students exclusively in my city in another university. So I will try to get an invitation for interested students from my university. But what else? How can I attract firms to my university?
Thanks a lot