Best Job experience after Undergrad for Top MBA

NBAFan20
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:13:14 +0000

hmom, I don’t know too much about actuaries, but from your response, many questions popped up

What’s the difference between in Actuary and an engineer let’s say for MBA Admissions?

1. You said “Unless you want a total career switch through an MBA, but then why become an actuary in the first place”

Doesn’t that same thing apply to an engineer job? It’s a total career switch as well. So I don’t know why you brought that up specifically with actuaries and not engineers. Is there a reason?

2.

I understand MBA admission officers like Consultants more than Actuaries (Assuming same position level), but what would you say is the reason. I heard they do like heavy quantitative analysis and actuaries do work with the business world. Isn’t that favorable too?

3.

Compared to engineers, would you say its easier for an actuary to move up the latter (assuming same size firm)? Is it easier to leave an impression for an MBA admission officer for an actuary rather than an engineer.

I heard if you can get a job at a major consulting firm, you’re set, so is that kind of why Consulting is preferred over both actuaries and engineers?