Career switch, measured
From Actuary to Operations Research Analyst
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 67% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Statistics, Excel, Research, Stakeholder management; the main skills to add are Process improvement, Troubleshooting, Sales, Tableau.
67%
skill overlap
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Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillActuaryOperations Research Analyst
- Statistics47%35%
- Excel48%35%
- Research32%54%
- Stakeholder management35%50%
- Python45%22%
- Data analysis18%28%
- Forecasting19%22%
- Leadership49%38%
Skills to add
Asked for often in Operations Research Analyst postings, rarely in Actuary ones.
SkillActuaryOperations Research Analyst
- Process improvement–22%
- Troubleshooting–16%
- Sales5%14%
- Tableau–9%
- Salesforce–9%
- Quality control–8%
- Root cause analysis–8%
- AWS–8%
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