35Actuary Interview Questions
1.Why do you want to be an Actuary?
2.What is your favorite part about statistics?
3.What organizations did you partake in as a college student?
4.What classes did you like most in college?
5.What makes you like numbers? When did you realize you enjoyed math?
6.What languages can you program in?
7.How familiar are you with Excel? If I asked you to take a competency exam in Excel, would you be okay with it?
8.How familiar are you in Access?
9.Tell me why I should hire you over all of these applicants?
10.What do you do in your free time?
11.What are your goals in life?
12.Do you follow up on current events? What is your favorite news source?
13.Tell me about a time when you had to work in a group?
14.Tell me about a time when you had to work hard to achieve your goals?
15.Tell me about your computer skills.
16.What was your biggest mistake in your past job?
17.What was your greatest accomplishment in your past job?
18.Did you have any jobs while in school?
19.Tell me about your computer skills.
20.What was your biggest mistake in your past job?
21.Did you have any jobs while in school?
22.How soon can you start?
23.How do you deal with difficult people?
24.How did you hear about actuarial science?
25.What distinguishes you from twenty other people who can do the same tasks you can?
26.What type of work do you like to do best?
27.Describe in detail your recent actuarial/excel projects?
28.What is your ideal company to work for like?
29.Tell me about a situation in which you persuaded a large group of people to change their course of action?
30.What area of the actuarial field are you looking at?
31.What was your least favorite college course?
32.Describe a recent important decision you've made?
33.Describe a situation in life that portrays your communication skills?
34.What do you know about our company?
35.Do you plan on taking any more actuarial exams in the future?