Actuaries across the world face a common professional challenge: balancing the three forces that define career fulfilment:

• Professional Satisfaction
• Work/Life Balance
• Compensation

This is what Hanover Search Partner, Michael Stefan, calls The Career Trilemma. While most people can optimise two of these elements, being satisfied with all three is very rare, and trade-offs are common, even in today’s candidate-driven market. 

Michael recently presented this at the Casualty Actuaries in Europe (CAE) Spring Meeting 2025, and it is now available as a downloadable resource to you. In The Career Trilemma, Michael introduces a practical framework that actuaries can use to assess their own position, navigate trade-offs and make informed career decisions in a market full of opportunity and competing priorities.

Download The Career Trilemma to see what real-world trade-offs look like, get a snapshot of recent market data, and explore how this framework can help you evaluate your own position and make smarter, more balanced career choices.