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Career Typical Tasks

Daily Tasks
Analyze statistical information to estimate mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates.
Ascertain premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
Collaborate with programmers, underwriters, accounts, claims experts, and senior management to help companies develop plans for new lines of business or improving existing business.
Construct probability tables for events such as fires, natural disasters, and unemployment, based on analysis of statistical data and other pertinent information.
Design, review and help administer insurance, annuity and pension plans, determining financial soundness and calculating premiums.
Determine equitable basis for distributing surplus earnings under participating insurance and annuity contracts in mutual companies.
Determine or help determine company policy, and explain complex technical matters to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the public.
Determine policy contract provisions for each type of insurance.
Explain changes in contract provisions to customers.
Manage credit and help price corporate security offerings.
Provide advice to clients on a contract basis, working as a consultant.
Provide expertise to help financial institutions manage risks and maximize returns associated with investment products or credit offerings.
Testify before public agencies on proposed legislation affecting businesses.
Testify in court as expert witness or to provide legal evidence on matters such as the value of potential lifetime earnings of a person who is disabled or killed in an accident.

Daily Work Activities
Advise clients or customers.
Analyze scientific research data or investigative findings.
Follow contract, property, or insurance laws.
Use current social research.
Perform statistical modeling.
Collect statistical data.
Communicate technical information.
Develop mathematical ideas or interpretations.
Evaluate degree of financial risk.
Analyze social or economic data.
Explain complex mathematical information.
Interpret charts or tables for social or economic research.
Maintain awareness of social trends.
Compile numerical or statistical data.
Create mathematical or statistical diagrams or charts.
Develop mathematical simulation models.
Prepare reports.
Provide expert testimony on research results.
Advise clients on financial matters.
Recognize interrelationships among social statistics or indicators.
Use public speaking techniques.
Use computers to enter, access or retrieve data.
Use knowledge of investigation techniques.
Use mathematical or statistical methods to identify or analyze problems.
Use quantitative research methods.
Use relational database software.
Use spreadsheet software.
Use word processing or desktop publishing software.
Make presentations on financial matters.
Prepare technical reports or related documentation.
Make presentations.
Develop tables depicting data.
Develop or maintain databases.

Other Work Activities
Analyzing Data or InformationIdentifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Coaching and Developing OthersIdentifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesProviding information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of OthersGetting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
Developing Objectives and StrategiesEstablishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal RelationshipsDeveloping constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or InformationEstimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with StandardsUsing relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Getting InformationObserving, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating SubordinatesProviding guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and EventsIdentifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Interacting With ComputersUsing computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for OthersTranslating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or PeopleAssessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsAnalyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing WorkDeveloping specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Processing InformationCompiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Provide Consultation and Advice to OthersProviding guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Thinking CreativelyDeveloping, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeKeeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
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Get Info From Eastern Kentucky UniversityEastern Kentucky UniversityOnline
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Get Info From Indiana Business College - MedicalIndiana Business College - MedicalCampusIndianapolis, IN 46239
Get Info From Career Centers of TexasCareer Centers of TexasCampusFort Worth, TX 76103
Get Info From Career Centers of TexasCareer Centers of TexasCampusEl Paso, TX 78207
Get Info From Career Centers of TexasCareer Centers of TexasCampusCorpus Christ, TX 78416
Get Info From Keller Graduate School of ManagementKeller Graduate School of ManagementCampusFederal Way, WA 98001

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