Date: Wednesday 4 August 2010
Time: 12pm – 3:30pm
Venue: Wilson Hall, The University of Melbourne

Careers & Employment’s Employment Experience Fair is on Wed 4 August 2010. This exciting event gives students a chance to find out more about vacation work programs, cooperative placements, paid internships, working holidays and overseas graduate employment.

Local and international employers are expected to attend, so come along to Wilson Hall and use the Employment Experience Fair as an opportunity to assist you in your decision making process for planning your career and next steps. Regardless of what year you are in, you can start your research here. Get to know more about the organisations you’d like to trial working for through a vacation employment program. Use it as a networking occasion to chat with potential employers you have already researched. Or just get an idea of the vast amount of options out there for you!

For further information please see Careers Online.

N.B: This event is only open to students of The University of Melbourne.

(Flyer available here)

Want to make your mark in the world? Think consulting is the way to go? Then consider Towers Watson.

We bring together professionals from around the world — experts in their areas of specialty — to deliver the perspectives that give our clients a clear path forward.

Vacation work is a great opportunity to experience, for yourself, the work we do and the part you can play in our success. Vacation students often go on to become graduates helping our clients reach their financial objectives. We offer talented students career opportunities in the areas of Benefits, Risk and Financial Services Consulting, Financial Modelling Software and Investment Consulting.

We are seeking enthusiastic students, with strong academic records and good communication skills, to join our team over the 2010/2011 summer break. Although we have a preference for students in their penultimate year of study, we will consider candidates from all years.

How to Apply

Go to www. towerswatson.com, click on Careers, search Global Career Opportunities, and simply enter the Job ID (6222) or select Asia Pacific (Region), Australia (Country/Sub-region) and University (Segment).

For inquiries email gradrecruit@towerswatson.com.

Applications close 30 July 2010.

(Flyer available here)

Finity Consulting is offering an intern program for actuarial students in their penultimate year of study.

The program offers paid work experience for 10 weeks between December and February. The program will provide you the opportunity to experience real, meaningful work and gain valuable insight into how the firm operates. Our aim is to make your experience at Finity challenging, interesting and rewarding.

Finity is the largest independent general insurance actuarial consulting firm in Australia. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland we employ over 80 people and combine actuarial and operational expertise to offer a broad range of services to a large client base.

Internships are available in our Sydney and Melbourne offices so please specify your preference

Applications open on 1 June 2010 and close on 28 June 2010.

For more information and details on how to apply visit www.finity.com.au/internships.php now.

The powerpoint slides from the Mercer Career Luncheon on 11 May are now available here.

Are you a full time university undergraduate & actuarial society member?
If so, have you become an Institute University Subscriber?

The Institute of Actuaries of Australia invites full time undergraduate university students studying at The University of Melbourne who are members of Melbourne Actuarial Students Society to become Institute University Subscribers.

Becoming a University Subscriber is FREE.

Benefits of Subscribing:

1. Careers

• Gain access to the Institutes Job Ad Service
• Catch the latest adverts for vacation employment and graduate programs

2. Events

• Exclusive invitations to attend Insights and Young Actuaries Program presentations – valuable networking opportunities with actuarial practitioners
• Special presentations:

* hear from leading senior and experienced actuaries in Australia

* presentations by the President of the Institute

3. Publications

• Actuary Australia monthly magazine online – current issues and topics of interest to the profession
• · Australian Actuarial Journal online – keep up to date with the latest  technical, professional and research papers
• Electronic Newsletters – Opt in to receive:
  * News Summary – daily news articles relevant to the profession
  * Events Update – invitations to Institute events
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  * General Insurance Newsletter
  * Private Health Insurance Newsletter
  * Enterprise Risk Management Newsletter
  * Superannuation & Employee Benefits Newsletter
  * Life Insurance & Wealth Management Newsletter

  
  REGISTER ONLINE HERE
  

  We look forward to welcoming you to the Institute. If you have any questions email actuaries@actuaries.asn.au.

  
  

  About the Institute:

  The Institute of Actuaries of Australia is the sole professional body for actuaries in Australia. The Institute has over 3700 members worldwide. The Institute’s vision is to position the profession so that wherever there is uncertainty of future financial outcomes, actuaries are sought after for their valued advice and authoritative comment.

Date: Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Time: 12:00 – 14:00
Location: The Spot Basement Theatre

Join us at our official career luncheon for Mercer, one of our society’s Gold Sponsors. Mercer provides consulting advice, solutions and services for the full range of issues that affect companies’ retirement plans, and is the largest employer of superannuation actuaries in Australia, and a market leader for superannuation and retirement actuarial services.

If the promise of a free lunch doesn’t already appeal to you, let it be known they are offering internships to actuarial students over the vacation period. Whether you’re in first year or final year, come along if you would like to learn more about Mercer and the retirement, risk and finance consulting industry.

• Dynamic global market leader
• Excellent actuarial career development opportunities
• Suitable for final year students
• Melbourne Location

Russell Investments is a global investment management company that believes investors of all sizes can benefit from access to the world’s leading money managers. To that end, we research, identify and select best-of-breed investment managers from around the world.

We put those managers to work for some of the world’s largest investors, financial advisers and individuals saving for retirement. We provide sophisticated investment solutions including investment and superannuation funds, pensions, institutional asset management and implementation services, as well as our global equity indexes.

Russell’s Actuarial and Benefits Consulting practice is one of the leading actuarial practices in superannuation and is a key part of Russell’s provisions of a full range of services to Australian clients.  The Actuarial and Benefits Consulting team advisers some of Australia’s leading companies and Government on the security of more than a million individuals’ benefits representing more than $60 billion of assets.

We are seeking high-calibre graduates who are in their final year of studies to start working with us in 2011.  An opportunity exists for a permanent grad position.

Graduates are recruited from the core disciplines of actuarial science, commerce, economics, finance, mathematics, statistics, physics and engineering. In addition to excellent grades we require people with lots of motivation, excellent communication skills, the ability to apply their analytical skills, and who enjoy working in a team environment. The successful candidate would be expected to study for the Actuarial exams.

Russell takes great pride in looking after our most important asset, our associates, through a culture of rewarding achievement, excellent working conditions and focus on developing staff to their full potential.  These are highly sought after career opportunities within a fast paced and dynamic financial services firm.

Typically analysts in the Actuarial and Benefits Consulting Line of Business work on projects in the following areas:

• strategy, design, valuation and compliance for superannuation plans
• mergers and acquisitions benefit strategy
• determining the appropriate investment objectives, strategies and asset, allocations for clients, through asset/liability studies
• design and valuation of incentive plans such as share and option schemes
• design and implementation of member investment choice programs

You will be offered a competitive salary package and opportunities for continued career and salary progression.

To apply please send your resume, cover letter and current transcripts to:

Russell Graduate Recruitment
GPO Box 3279
SYDNEY NSW 2001; or

syd-hrr@russell.com

Closing date for applications: 5.00pm Monday May 3^rd, 2010.

Please ensure you include your address, phone number, University, area of study, and desired location (Melbourne).  For further information please go to www.russell.com.au

Date: Thursday 22 April
Time: 7:30pm-10:30pm
Venue: Red Triangle Snooker Room, 110 Argyle Street, Fitzroy
Cost: $10 for members, $15 for non-members, including non-alcoholic drinks

Want to impress your potential employers and friends with your “extra-curricular skills”? Your procrastinatory games of pool at INU Bar can finally pay off!

Get together in teams of 2 and pit yourself against the formidable skills of sponsor teams in our inaugural Student vs Sponsor Pool Tournament. This is also a perfect opportunity to ask questions or network with firm representatives and fellow actuaries.

Places are STRICTLY limited, so contact your Year Level Reps to register teams ASAP!

Can a uni student beat Taylor Fry? Taylor Fry are delighted to invite you to enter our inaugural uni student tipping competition!

Taylor Fry has developed some simple footy tipping models and we challenge you to beat them. We’ll be entering 3 tipsters using only statistical models (one Treenet® model and two GLMs). We expect to beat most of you but the law of averages will mean we are unlikely to beat you all. Of course you’ll also be competing against other students.

You better hurry because there is $500 of cold hard cash to be won and it’s free to enter… Just put your tips in once a week and you could be on your way to glory.

To join in the fun:
1. sign up to www.footytips.com.au (the 3rd party free website that we use to run the competition)
2. then click on “join a comp”, comp name: “Taylor Fry AFL Student Tipping” and password: “Beat_the_Geek”

Up for grabs is:
1st prize: $300 cash
2nd prize: $150 cash
3rd prize: $50 cash

For more information, click here.

Date: Wednesday 24 March
Time: 6pm-9pm
Venue: INU Bar, Level 1 Union House
Cost: $5 for members, $7 for non-members, which includes wedges and drinks

This is the perfect chance to show off your arsenal of pointless information to friends and classmates, and prove how smart actuaries really are. Non-actuarial students are welcome to join in – here’s the opportunity to prove us wrong!

Get together in teams of 3-5, with prizes for the winning team. Tickets will be sold at the door; otherwise, contact your Year Level Representatives to register.