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Check your actuarial CV
The check uses the same core criteria as our paid CV review. Every paid CV review is completed and checked by a qualified actuary (FIA). Nothing is uploaded or stored: the check runs in your browser.
Education and actuarial status
Make the academic information relevant to the role easy to find. If you have actuarial exams or exemptions, show them accurately. If you have none yet, there is no need to invent an exam section: UK graduate schemes do not normally expect applicants to have passed professional exams before joining.
1.How clearly are your degree and relevant school qualifications shown?
2.How does your CV deal with actuarial exams or exemptions?
Technical skills, evidenced
Do more than list software. Give the reader something you have actually done with the tools you claim to know, and only list skills you would be comfortable discussing in an interview.
3.How are your technical skills presented?
4.Could you explain every technical skill or project you have listed?
Evidence and outcomes
Strong bullets tell the reader what you did and give enough context to understand its scale or result. Numbers are useful when they genuinely add information, but not every bullet needs to contain one.
5.How often do your bullets show scale or results?
6.How specific are your experience bullets?
Relevance to actuarial applications
Your CV does not need to contain a mini 'why this firm' answer. It does need to make the experience and skills most relevant to an actuarial role easy to find.
7.Is the most relevant evidence easy to find?
8.How much irrelevant material is taking up space?
Structure and readability
For most students and recent graduates, one page is usually enough. The aim is not to hit an arbitrary page count; it is to make the strongest information easy to find.
9.Is the length appropriate for your experience?
10.If somebody scanned the CV quickly, what would they understand?
Accuracy and credibility
Everything on the CV should be accurate and something you would be happy to defend in an interview. Specific evidence is stronger than broad claims about being analytical, commercial or technically skilled.
11.How well can you support the claims on your CV?
12.How carefully has the CV been checked?
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How we assess a CV
These are the same core areas we consider in our paid CV review. The paid service goes further by looking at your actual document line by line and giving specific written changes to make. Every paid CV review is completed and checked by a qualified actuary (FIA).
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