The Actuary Intern Jumpstart your Career
exposure, we end up detesting it? And what if we do not get an internship at all? Is it an end to our dreams or a start to something new? When we asked Trishla Doshi about her professional beginnings, she confided that it took her 7 months to bag her 1st internship. Her only disadvantage? She was an undergraduate. Over a hundred messages on LinkedIn, she received only ten replies and just one asking for her CV. It did get her an internship, but it only lasted 1 month as they wanted fulltime interns and she could not commit full time due to college. So, she started something new. She started posting her struggles, motivation, and actuarial facts on LinkedIn daily. She created the #actuarialfact on LinkedIn, which now has 820 followers where she researches and posts short, simple but impactful facts to increase knowledge of actuarial, insurance and mathematics field. Today, Trishla owns a start-up, The Actuary Intern, which is focused on the problem and the desire to minimize, and eventually eliminate the problem that she had to face. Through her firm, she wants to enable the next generation with skills that matter to them without the need to spend full time and months on applying to competitive programs.
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o reach one’s destination, one must start somewhere. As we near the last leg of our education and start dreaming about the new professional life that we are to begin, we look forward to our internship period. As an intern, we familiarize ourselves with the industry we desire to step-in and receive a hands-on education. This internship period is often described as the launchpad to a successful career ahead. However, what if the internship does not turn out the way we imagined? What if instead of enjoying the industry-
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“Instead, gain knowledge from people who have worked at top Companies, take practical knowledge and then apply, except this time, you are Tough and Prepared,” says Trishla. The Start-Up The Actuary Intern provides Virtual Actuarial Internship Program in Health Insurance designed by Trishla. The current program is motivated by her learnings from her internship at HDFC Ergo General Insurance. The Actuarial Virtual Internship Program in Health Insurance gives information and knowledge of Insurance products using knowledge videos, quiz and final three projects to test that knowledge. The projects test Insurance
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