1. Interview Skills Workshop
Arthur Rahn
Noreen Iqbal

2. Today Introduction Preparing for Interviews. What to expect...
Types of Interviews
Types of interview questions
Hints and Tips / Common mistakes
Interview Questions Exercise
Q&A session

3. Real People
Real Skills
Real Results

4. Hymans Robertson – Who we are
Independent Partnership
Established in 1921
47 partners
500 employees
£47.2 million fee income
Birmingham, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh
A member of Abelica Global

5. Services to clients Trustee Services Corporate Consulting
Financial & Risk Management
Governance & Plan Management
Pension Administration
Communications & Engagement
Benefits Strategy & Design
Corporate Consulting
Financial & Risk Management
Corporate Transactions
Governance & Plan Management
Communications & Engagement
Benefits Strategy and Design
Public Sector
Actuarial Consulting
Benefits Consulting
Investment Consulting

6. Scheme Design & Management
What we do
Actuarial
Third Party Admin
Scheme Design & Management
Valuations
Funding Strategy
Accounting support
Mergers and acquisitions
Individual member projections
Scheme Administration
Record keeping
Benefit statement
Pension fund accounts
Payroll
Strategic advice
Risk management/broking
Trustee training
Scheme secretarial services
Benefit design
Investments
Club VITA
Corporate
Strategy
Modelling
Manager selection
Performance monitoring
Helps UK pension schemes
manage longevity risk
Richest source of longevity
knowledge
Analytics tailored for each
scheme member
Service is independent
from actuarial advice
Management of pension
liabilities
Funding negotiations
Implementation of strategic
decisions
Corporate transactions
Talk through each Practice
Actuarial – more shortly
TPA- scheme administration (60 staff)
SD&M (25 staff)
Investments (41)

7. Why are we different? Market position
UK’s leading independent experts in investments & benefits
1 of the largest employers of actuaries excluding life companies
A recognition of our staff as our key asset
Market leader in public sector
£85 billion of assets under management
1 of the highest customer satisfaction ratings in financial services carried out by an independent researcher

8. Not all actuarial consultants are the same
Are you an
original thinker?
Shabna Begum
Birmingham office
Actuarial trainee
Not all actuarial consultants are the same
Are you a
good
communicator?
Do you have a
solid footing in
mathematics?

9. Our Core Competencies
Communication, Influencing and Consultancy skills
Personal Effectiveness/Motivation
Planning and Organisational Ability
Adaptability & Flexibility
Job & Career Motivation
Technical Skills & Commercial Awareness

10. A typical interview process. What to expect...
What would you do if you had in interview tomorrow morning? Discuss.
Review job specification, application form and CV
Examples to match up to possible competency questions
Research the company (history, awards, locations)
Location, route and time planning (including contact numbers)
Appearance – Dress code / General hygiene
First impressions
Think about relevant questions to ask
Exercise 2. Discussion and Brainstorming

11. Types of Interviews Telephone Interviews Face to face interviews
Panel Interviews
Assessments

12. Types of interview questions
Competency / Behavioural questions
Technical questions
Strengths / Weaknesses based questions
Chronological questions
Exercise 3. Line Matching

13. Hints & Tips On the day Building Rapport Feedback – what next?
Exercise 4. Mock interviews

14. Questions?