These are the ATS keywords, credentials, and software terms that recur across current actuary job descriptions — organized so you can scan for what your resume is missing. Placement matters as much as presence: an ATS keyword buried in a skills list ranks lower than the same term used in context inside an experience bullet.
Title variants
- Actuary
- Associate Actuary
- Senior Actuary
- Consulting Actuary
- P&C Actuary
- Property and Casualty Actuary
- Life Actuary
- Health Actuary
- Pension Actuary
- Retirement Actuary
- Pricing Actuary
- Reserving Actuary
- ERM Actuary
- Reinsurance Actuary
- Catastrophe Risk Analyst
- Risk Actuary
- Actuarial Analyst
- Senior Actuarial Analyst
- Actuarial Associate
- Actuarial Student
Credentials and exams
- FCAS
- ACAS
- FSA
- ASA
- CERA
- EA
- Enrolled Actuary
- IFoA
- FIA
- AIA
- Exam P
- Exam FM
- Exam IFM
- Exam LTAM
- Exam STAM
- Exam SRM
- Exam PA
- Exam MAS-I
- Exam MAS-II
- CAS Exam 5
- CAS Exam 6
- VEE
- SOA
- CAS
- IFoA
- JBEA
P&C reserving and pricing
- loss reserves
- IBNR
- IBNER
- case reserves
- development triangles
- chain ladder
- Bornhuetter-Ferguson
- Cape Cod
- frequency-severity
- Schedule P
- loss development factors
- tail factor
- loss ratio
- combined ratio
- expense ratio
- indicated rate change
- rate adequacy
- loss cost
- ISO
- experience rating
- retrospective rating
- excess of loss
- reinsurance
Life, health, pension
- actuarial valuation
- statutory reserve
- GAAP reserve
- VM-20
- principle-based reserving
- LDTI
- ASC 944
- IFRS 17
- mortality table
- VBT
- SOA experience study
- premium rate
- profit testing
- asset share
- defined benefit
- PPA
- AFTAP
- Schedule SB
- PBGC
- ASC 715
- FAS 87
- lapse rate
- persistency
Catastrophe and risk
- RMS
- AIR Worldwide
- AIR
- Karen Clark
- catastrophe model
- CAT model
- probable maximum loss
- PML
- average annual loss
- AAL
- exceedance probability curve
- OEP
- AEP
- economic capital
- ORSA
- Solvency II
- RBC
- DCAT
Software
- R
- Python
- SAS
- Excel VBA
- ResQ
- Milliman ResQ
- MG-ALFA
- GGY AXIS
- Prophet
- FIS Prophet
- Moses
- Slope
- ChainLadder (R package)
- actuar
- scikit-learn
- pandas
Long-tail phrases
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- CAS actuary resume
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- life actuary resume
- pension actuary resume
Pasting these terms into your resume verbatim without matching context can read as keyword stuffing to a human reviewer, even if it passes the ATS. The full Actuary resume guide shows where each category belongs and how to work it into real experience bullets.