What are you doing after university?

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Original post by Icycandle

Actuarial work is a career field undertaken by Actuaries in the same way that Accountancy is a career field undertook by Accountants. Graduate Programme are simply programmes of work (usually with some big name company) where the company recruits graduate to work as part of their department. This helps you secure some experience and money under your belt and once the programme finishes (can range from 1-3years) you may go hunting for jobs at other firms or you can take up the offer (that is usually made by the company provided you haven't made a drastic mess of yourself in those years) and stay with the firm that you trained with by accepted their offer of promotion.

(rough outline to graduate programmes, dont quote me word for word on this)

Ok I won't quote you but (forgive my laziness) what is an actuary?

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OP

http://www.beanactuary.org/what/

Ok, I looked it up it's a financial adviser? Like insurance. What do they do - actuaries?

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Icycandle

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Original post by Arketec

Ok, I looked it up it's a financial adviser? Like insurance. What do they do - actuaries?

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OP

http://www.beanactuary.org/what/

Original post by Icycandle

Ok thanks.

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whatisthis47

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Spending my life living in a gangster's paradise, or going to my home country to teach English. I'm not fussed.

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Original post by Arketec

What sort of work experience? Out of interest. :smile:

Either at an NGO or a think tank, I'm hoping! :biggrin:

One of my uni choices is Bath, because you get the option of doing a year's work placement. You also get that option at Lougborough and Aston, I think.

I'm also hoping for work experience that isn't politics-related, but I'm too sure what exactly this will be...

I'm really not sure about a lot of things, haha

Sorry, just seen what you want to do!
WOAH, you want to be an architect?? That's awesome!!!
Are you at university at the moment, or in college?

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Original post by mrandmr.crane

Either at an NGO or a think tank, I'm hoping! :biggrin:

One of my uni choices is Bath, because you get the option of doing a year's work placement. You also get that option at Lougborough and Aston, I think.

I'm also hoping for work experience that isn't politics-related, but I'm too sure what exactly this will be...

I'm really not sure about a lot of things, haha

That's cool would you work for any political party?

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gemmam

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PGCE Primary.

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Original post by Arketec

That's cool would you work for any political party?

Sorry, I had to delete my last message because I'd made a huuuuge mess of it!!

Probably not! I guess it's not impossible but the idea's never really appealed to me. I'd like to work with people and in politics but not in that way. I'll have to wait and see, I suppose :biggrin:

Suddenly I get why you're called Arketec!
Are you doing undergraduate architecture now?? You really seem to know exactly what you want to do after uni! :smile:

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Original post by mrandmr.crane

Sorry, I had to delete my last message because I'd made a huuuuge mess of it!!

Probably not! I guess it's not impossible but the idea's never really appealed to me. I'd like to work with people and in politics but not in that way. I'll have to wait and see, I suppose :biggrin:

Suddenly I get why you're called Arketec!
Are you doing undergraduate architecture now?? You really seem to know exactly what you want to do after uni! :smile:

no I'm doing A levels I'm a mature student.

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Original post by gemmam

PGCE Primary.

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I'd love to do that.

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Original post by Arketec

no I'm doing A levels I'm a mature student.

Ah, okay
When I was in high school I was obsessed with buildings and thought I could be an architect... but I'd never been particularly good at either maths or art so I had to give up the dream...
I wish you all the best! :biggrin:

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John Stuart Mill

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Original post by mrandmr.crane

Ah, okay
When I was in high school I was obsessed with buildings and thought I could be an architect... but I'd never been particularly good at either maths or art so I had to give up the dream...
I wish you all the best! :biggrin:

Well there's time right?

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TheGuy117

The same thing I do everyday Arketec, try to take over the world!

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Original post by John Stuart Mill

Well there's time right?

Haha, I guess so! I'm happy with my choice of degree for now, but I might come back to it one day! :biggrin:

PhD, bitchis.

Original post by Icycandle

Hoping to land an Actuarial Graduate Programme spot! Work work work from there on out!

I'm doing Act Sci at (hopefully) City next year. So how did you find the course? what uni you at? what course? have you already started looking for a training job? what year of uni are you in?

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Icycandle

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Original post by Dragonrage973

I'm doing Act Sci at (hopefully) City next year. So how did you find the course? what uni you at? what course? have you already started looking for a training job? what year of uni are you in?

I'm at the University of Leicester studying a BSc in Economics. I did initially apply for their Mathematics and Actuarial Science course which gives CT1-CT8 exemptions but later on decided that I didn't want to be restricted by early specialisation in my studies and so applied for a successful course transfer to Economics.

I'm in my first year and will most likely self-study and sit atleast half of the core technical exams before my three years are over. From there it'll be graduate program + 2 years part time Masters in Actuarial Management. So work + study basically :smile:

What about you?

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dothestrand