Month: December 2017

Career In Actuarial Science

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Education sector is growing at a great pace and constantly adding to the growth of the country. The sector of education is always in the stage of development, due to adoption of new techniques and education forms from the foreign countries. The students are always in the search of new fields, which could add to their skills and explore their opportunities in one or the other productive ways. The main aim of getting educated for a student is to earn a respectable amount of salary and frame for himself a bright career route leading to prosperous future. The school and college education these days, are also aimed at the growth of the students. Many new career prospects are coming and grabbing the interest of a large number of students.

Actuarial sciences are one of those fields, which are slowly attracting students to opt it as their career option. Actuarial science is a field, which basically deals with the mathematical and statistical numbers, to further assess the various risk factors in the insurance and the finance sectors. Actuarial science is a word, which is mostly referred to as a field related to the insurance sector. Professionals of this field are called Actuaries, and they generally provide services in the health, life, general, retirement and many other benefit plans. The students aiming for the course in Actuarial science need to have maths as their subjects in the senior secondary examination. There are colleges in India, which provide graduation as well as post graduation courses in actuarial science. Some of the colleges in India, providing actuarial science courses, are:

Bishop Herber College, Tamil Nadu

The National Insurance Academy, Pune

Academy of Insurance Management, New Delhi

Birla Institute of Management Technology, New Delhi

Bharathisadan University, Tamil Nadu

Bajaj Capital Business School, Mumbai

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Mumbai

Institute of Certified Risk and Insurance Managers, Hyderabad

University of Kalyani, West Bengal

Behrampur University, Orissa

The entrance to these colleges is mainly through an entrance test, conducted by the colleges of India. Also, the students who want to practise actuarial sciences as their career need to pass through an examination conducted by the Actuarial Society of India. The students appearing for these exams need to have a strong maths background to deal efficiently with the figures and statistics. The students with degrees in course of actuarial science are believed to possess the power of farsightedness. They are said to be highly evaluative and calculative when it comes to figures and can give a better opinion in terms of the financial outcomes of major future events.

Also, to practise the profession of actuarial science, the person needs to become a student member of Actuarial Society of India. There are various conditions, which the student should satisfy for becoming a student of the ASI. Out of which, the majors being the student of 18 years of age and above and should have maths as his major subjects in the senior secondary and the graduation levels. The examination of the Actuarial Society of India is divided into four stages, which are as follows:

Core Technical Stage: Consists of eight exams, each of 100 marks, and clearing all the exams is compulsory

Core Application Stage: Here the students have two compulsory subjects to pass

Specialist Technical Stage: It has six subjects, out of which a student can choose any two, according to his interests.

Specialist Application Stage: This examination stage also has six subjects, out of which a student needs to clear any one.

The scope for a student doing course in Actuarial science is getting very bright with more and more people opting for the banking and insurance services. Also, with the introduction of insurance services in the healthcare and other prominent sectors, the demand of the actuaries is bound to rise

Where To Look For Forensic Science Technician Jobs

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If you are interested in forensic science technician jobs, and have completed a degree program in forensics (or chemistry or biology with a concentration in forensics, depending on what was available to you), there are a lot of places where you can look to try to find available forensic science technician jobs.

Before starting your job search for forensic science technician jobs, it might be useful for you to go to the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics website (www.bls.gov) to find out what type of salary you should expect for different types of positions in different locations.

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences lists forensic science technician jobs on their website at www.aafs.org. There aren’t necessarily a lot of positions posted here at any one time, but it is a good place to start your search.

You can also look for forensic science technician jobs on general job search websites. However, as there are many possible titles for these jobs, you should be sure to search under all the possibilities. These include: Ballistic Expert, Ballistician, Forensic Ballistics Expert, Crime Lab Technician, Crime Laboratory Analyst, Crime Scene Analyst, Crime Scene Investigator, Crime Scene Technician, Crime Specialist, Criminalist, Criminologist, Evidence Technician, Fingerprint Classifier, Fingerprint Expert, Forensic Chemist, Forensic Investigator, Forensic Pathology, Forensic Scientist, Keeler Polygraph Operator, Latent Fingerprint Examiner, Lie Detector Operator, Polygraph Examiner, Polygraph Operator, Ballistic Technician, Evidence Technician, and Forensic Science Technician, among others.

Different forensic science technician jobs focus on different aspects of the job. You might want to concentrate on applying for the forensic science technician jobs which require the skills you have the most experience with, or enjoy the most. If you have a lot of experience with polygraph tests, it might be better to apply for a Polygraph Examiner Position rather than a more general Forensic Science Technician.

According to Payscale.com, if you are just getting started out on your career, you can expect to make a median salary of $30,000 to $40,000 per year or so for forensic science technician jobs. Those with 10 years experience in forensic science technician jobs have a median salary of $64,998 per year, so experience definitely makes a difference in salary for this career.

Working for the federal government is also likely to pay more than working for state and local governments or a university. Location also makes a difference, with those working in some cities making much more than those in other cities. Source : certforensictechnician.com

Overcome Overwhelm in Your Business Using Brain-Based Science

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Business owners, especially solopreneurs, often experience symptoms of overwhelm. This often feels like not enough time, energy drain, being pulled in several directions at once, and an inability to focus. Overwhelm feels debilitating and stressful.

If you feeling like you’re “spinning your wheels” perhaps the following analogy will help. Winter driving can sometimes involve getting stuck, and if you accelerate while your vehicle is stuck in the snow, you only dig yourself in deeper! The same is true for your business; the harder you work, the more effort you expend, the more stuck you end up feeling. If you are working harder and spending longer hours on your business while continuing to feel stuck, the overwhelm comes with trying to balance everything while wanting to move your business forward, and as your focus and energy diminish, your sense of overwhelm increases.

The solution? Evaluate your work, your habits, and your willingness to make positive changes. Here are some brain science-based suggestions to help business owners move out of overwhelm – or avoid it completely:

1. Develop a plan. This may seem obvious, but many solopreneurs operate spontaneously according to external demands. This is particularly true of creatives; however, it’s important to have a business plan that keeps you grounded and operating from that level.

In order to create a workable plan, you’ll need to harness the power of your will to make changes in your business. The brain is capable of forging new connections to hone skills and modify old habits, but also likes to conserve energy by resisting new neuronal connections, so you’ll need to ignite your will to change by forming a clear purpose. Ask yourself what might happen if you don’t create change. What opportunities might be lost? What benefits will come with your proposed plan and changes? What will it be like when your changes become a habit?

2. Operate from priorities. Once you have a plan in place it’s important to work from focused priorities, which helps to keep your energy focused. Without priorities it’s easy to be in reactive mode. If your priorities are clear, you can stay task-focused, which will help you to be calmer and more focused energetically.

If you want to experience enhanced clarity and focus in your business, you’ll need to develop neural pathways in your brain. One way to do this is to ask yourself: How does a clear and focused person sound when speaking, laughing, acting questions? How does a clear and focused person listen, walk, sit, gesture? What does a clear and focused think about?

3. Develop systems for your business. Create systems and a process that works for you and your business. You might try using a journal to record your creative impulses so that you can stay task-focused. This way you’ll be taking action, but still staying focused on your current task.

If you become distracted from your stated direction by feelings of anger, annoyance, confusion, jealousy, or other such feelings, brain research provides a way to deal with your distraction – by labeling the feeling. Neuroscience calls this “labeling the affect”, and as we do so, the part of the brain feeling the emotion is calmed, so that we can return to clarity and purpose. Practice making mental notes throughout the day such as “I am eating” or “I am pleased” or “I am thinking about the proposal.” As your facility with this practice increases, you will find yourself able to remain calm in the eye of the storm.

4. Estimate realistic time-lines for your business goals and projects. The timelines allow you to feel as though your business development is unfolding at the proper pace, without feeling pressured to have everything done at this moment. If you mentally rehearse how you will feel once your goals and project timelines are complete, your skill levels improve and your brain is changed. Mental rehearsal is an effective tool for self-leadership.

5. Give yourself the gift of support. Successful business owners are willing to accept outside support and create systems of accountability. Without support your unproductive habits (those that are your ‘default’) and “inner” obstacles will continue to create bottlenecks in your business. A mentor or coach can give you an invaluable and objective perspective, assisting you to change the course of your direction by managing your inner resources, attaining optimal living strategies and expanding your influence, leveraging your time – and working less – to contribute and achieve more.

The Three questions Of Science Fiction

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There is a great deal of misunderstanding about what that particular branch of literature called Science Fiction actually consists of. Is it space-ships and monsters? Time machines? Galactic empires? Well, its all of those things, and often none of them.

Science Fiction, broadly speaking, is story-telling that deals with the impact of organized knowledge on human beings. Usually, this means technology, and the way it changes usand reveals about us. After all, most technology is an extension of our senses, attributes and desires: computers are brains, cell-phones are voices and ears, cars are legs, planes are the dream of flight.

Many classic S.F. films and books take place in worlds identical to ours, except for the creation of some new device, or the appearance of a new life-form. Others take place in worlds so apparently foreign that only the most dedicated and experienced reader can understand what is going on!

But at the core, there are three questions or musings most often asked or explored in any work with the Science Fiction label. Those three are:

1) What if?
2) If Only
3) If This Goes On

These three overlap considerably, but the first, What If?, is the most essential. What If the Martians attacked? What If eternal life was available at a price? What If we knew an asteroid would hit Earth in a year?

The second adds a bit of longing to the equation. If Only President Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated is the kind of question that leads to sociological and historical speculation, or the Alternate History branch of S.F. which has become tremendously popular in the last decade. If Only the gene for generosity (or anger, or bigotry) could be mapped If Only we could selectively prune bad memories

There is an emotional quality to the If Only questions, and they often speak to a sense of missed opportunity, roads not taken.

The third question, If This Goes On is tailor-made for cautionary tales. If we continue to pollute the environment If one party continues to dominate American politics If more women enter the management class If the space program continues to Privatize If human beings become better at modifying their physical characteristics

These questions are starting places for speculation. While it is easy to use any of them for trivial or absurd (and entertaining!) questions like What if a 300-foot radioactive lizard attacked Tokyo? they can also address profound issues, as in how would humanity change if we gained incontrovertible proof of intelligent alien life?

By concentrating on the question, or proposition, at the core of your story, it becomes easier to keep it from becoming a CGI-fest. Ask yourself how YOU would react to a given situation. How your family would reactyou know them well. Then friends. Political adversaries. Other nations, and people of other groups. Dig into the meat of it. Study history, and begin to grasp the way societies change in response to technology, for instance the Automobile, or Printing Press, or Computer.

The more deeply you delve, the more likely you will be to create a unique question with unique answers. Then people your world with breathing, believable characters responding as intelligent, feeling people have since the beginning of time. Your work will blossom and reach new levels

Even if it IS about a 300-foot radioactive lizard!