Actuarial work is the only high-paying career path I know of where non-university certifications count as something significant on one's resume. Anyone have any ideas on why this is?
(I'm dreaming about an educational system where teaching and certifying are decoupled, so the way to run a profitable education company is to teach people effectively, as measured by some test, rather than run an old and prestigious institution. The actuary field seems like the closest thing to what I'm dreaming about, so I'm wondering what's made it different.)
Does the bar exam not count as a significant non-university certification?
Stanford Professor Sam Savage (also of Probability Management) proposes that large firms appoint a "Chief Probability Officer." Here is a description from Douglas Hubbard's How to Measure Anything, ch. 6:
Hubbard adds some of his own ideas to the proposal: