The CPCU is the macdaddy, end all and be all of insurance designations. The big one. The great one. You can have a bunch of designations but if you don’t have CPCU you haven’t arrived yet! (We might be a little bit biased on this one.
We are deeply passionate about CPCU and want to do everything we can to encourage you to pursue CPCU and become a passionate advocate for CPCU.
Obtaining my CPCU designation in 5 months is, I can say, one of the biggest accomplishments I have, and this is why: Last year around June, I started thinking about how to expand my knowledge of the insurance industry, risk management in particular. After thinking about it for some time, I decided I was going … Read more
This article originally published in InsNerds.com Back in 2011 when I started working on my CPCU I didn’t know a single person who had their CPCU. I was going on blind faith and what I thought was good advice. I hadn’t discovered the CPCU Candidates Group on Facebook, the InsurancePros subreddit and InsNerds was just … Read more
The 2017 CPCU Society Leadership Summit starts Thursday in Baltimore, MD, and both Carly and Tony will be there! We have loved our experience each and every time we’ve attended both the Leadership Summit and the Annual Meeting. 1. Understand that the Annual Meeting and the Leadership Summit are different animals with different crowds: The annual meeting … Read more
This article by Carly Burnham originally published at InsNerds.com If you follow me on Twitter (and if you don’t, you should!), you’ll have seen a ton of posts with the hashtag #UCS17. The Casualty Actuarial Society and The Institutes CPCU Society hosted this year’s Underwriting Collaboration Seminar in Chicago, IL. I’ve attended the past two … Read more
1. Take stock of what you just accomplished: Take a moment and realize that you’ve just done something that almost everyone in our industry wished they had the grit to accomplish. Only 10% of insurance professionals ever take a single test and only 4% ever complete their CPCU.* Congratulations, you are now part of the … Read more