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Explore Infinite Career Possibilities in One of Our 12 Core Practices:

Communication
Motivate and challenge employees by helping businesses to develop clear and effective communication strategies. Whether you are announcing a new corporate strategy, assisting employees with defined contribution plan enrollment, or changing the culture by merging two companies, communication is the key
to smoothing transitions and moving forward.

Compensation
Integrate cash compensation, stock-based incentives, non-monetary rewards and pay-for-performance plans to create a competitive pay strategy for companies’ executives and employees. Your compensation strategies will help corporations to attract, retain and motivate a talented workforce while maintaining a satisfactory
profit margin.

Government Consulting
Help government organizations make the most of their workforces. Apply research and statistical modeling to provide clear human resource strategies. Your findings will address complex challenges such as shifting worker demographics, leadership development and pay-for-performance plans.

Group & Health Care
Use your analytical skills to minimize the cost of health benefits packages while improving employee health, satisfaction and productivity. It’s not unusual to save a Fortune 500 client millions of dollars through a
detail-oriented and strategic approach to designing their optimal health benefits plan.

Human Capital Consulting
Apply the laws of pure math to assess the success of human resources practices. Engage in culture audits, compensation benchmarking, performance measurement and HR effectiveness calculations. Then use the knowledge you’ve gained to provide practical, fact-based recommendations on the human resources policies that will best advance an organization’s key business goals.

Insurance & Financial Services
Consult with some of the largest financial institutions in the world. In the insurance and financial services practice, you’ll advise a wide range of financial institutions, insurance companies, fund managers and banks. Help them to optimize risk management, maximize value and mitigate management issues.

International
In an increasingly interconnected world economy, companies are adopting an international perspective on human resources, compensation and benefits issues. In our international practice, you’ll establish human resources policies that increase productivity and the quality of work life across the globe.

Investment
Turn ground-breaking investment concepts into practical advice for clients’ investment portfolios. With the help of industry-leading asset and liability modeling tools, you’ll design the backbone of clients’ investment strategies, balancing risk and expected return to meet client preferences. You’ll also establish benchmarking for client funds, ensuring that each fund maintains the most efficient asset allocation and the most accomplished investment managers.

Organization Effectiveness
Design and implement work attitude and human resources studies to test which company practices are inspiring a positive work environment and driving bottom line results. You’ll meet the challenge of quantifying employee behaviors and using this information to improve company policy in talent selection, succession planning and executive coaching.

Pension Administration
Help clients to forecast and budget pension expenses and navigate complex pension laws. As a pension administration consultant, you’ll have access to the most up-to-date technological tools to design, implement and track your pension plan models.

Retirement
In the retirement practice, you’ll become an actuary – one of the top-rated jobs in the nation for income, job security and travel opportunities. Our actuaries work with high-profile clients to help them design cost-effective retirement and pension plans that will attract, motivate and retain a talented workforce.

Are you a statistician, a consultant, a paralegal or an accountant? As an actuary, you’re a bit of all these things. You’ll study uncertain future events, take into account current and upcoming government regulations, and analyze data such as company budget, average employee turnaround and forecasted Social Security benefits.
You’ll organize these variables to design the most optimal company retirement plan available and present this plan to your clients. It’s never a simple, “plug-and-play” task, but a stimulating exercise in critical thinking and problem solving.

Technology & Administration Solutions
Streamline clients’ human resources departments with cutting-edge technology and outsourcing solutions. Design employee portals, vendor integration solutions, benefit administration systems and hosted technology solutions. Or consult on existing technology, helping clients to optimize legacy systems.