Employment Resources
Cornell Engineering: Co-op & Career Services
The Career Services advisor for the MPS Program is Mary Ellen Buhl, in
Cornell Engineering: Co-op & Career Services.
Please contact Mary Ellen at meb7@cornell.edu
Summer Internships
Many Statistics graduate students have benefited from summer work internships in industry and government. Information on some internships is available from the Director of Graduate Studies, and the professional societies also publish some listings in their newsletters.
Career Planning
It is very important to keep your career goals in mind during your graduate studies. While these goals may well change or evolve, it will be useful to keep an eye on the changing market for various categories of professional statistical employment.
Newsletters
The newsletters of the professional societies are very helpful in this regard. Check also with the University and College career centers. Print sources such as the New York Times and the National Business Employment Weekly list a wide variety of statistics-related jobs.
Online Resources
There is a burgeoning number of online employment services such as the Online Career Center which you can easily browse. The Department has a job search engine for searching several such databases simultaneously. Some commentary on these matters is available from the New Researchers' Guide.
About the Academic Hiring Process
The job interview and hiring process for statisticians in industry and government follows the usual business practices. It's important to realize that the "hiring cycle" is much faster in industry than in academia, and openings come and go on a much faster time-frame.
Academic jobs for statisticians differ slightly from those in more "classical" fields such as pure mathematics: a statistician may hold a "standard" professorial research/teaching appointment in a unified Statistics Department, or in a mathematical sciences group, or in a department corresponding to a substantive field such as finance or public health.
There are also quite a few university positions for statisticians to serve as consultants, research associates, and so forth, attached to a department or sometimes to a specific long-term research project.
The best way to find out about the variety of possible opportunities is to keep an open mind, keep reading and searching the job listings, and talk to senior students, recent graduates, and faculty.
Helpful Job Search Links:
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American Institutes for Research
http://jobs-airdc.icims.com/airdc_jobs/jobs/candidate/intro.jsp - America's Job Bank
http://www.ajb.dni.us -
American Statistical Association JobWeb
http://www.amstat.org/jobweb/index.cfm -
Analyticrecruiting.com
http://www.Analyticrecruiting.com -
Careerbuilder
http://www.careebuilder.com -
CareerJournal
http://www.careerjournal.com -
Cornell Career Services
http://www.career.cornell.edu/
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Cornell Career Contact Network
http://www.career.cornell.edu/careerConnections/contactsNetwork/default.html
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Evaluating a Job Offer
http://www.career.cornell.edu/jobsandinternships/jobSearch/evaluating.html -
International Job Search
http://www.career.cornell.edu/jobsandinternships/international/default.html
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- Cornell University Engineering Career Services
http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/index.cfm - Cornell University Statistics Department Useful Resources Listing
http://www.stat.cornell.edu/resources/index.shtml -
Craig's List
http://www.craigslist.com -
Data Management Association International Web Site
http://www.dama.org - Data Mining Directory and Analytic Job Board
http://www.datashaping.com - Dice.com
http://www.dice.com - eFinancialCareers
http://www.efinancialcareers.com -
Government Jobs
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov -
Health Career Jobs - Healthecareers.com
http://www.healthcareers.com -
Hotjobs.com
http://www.hotjobs.com -
Icrunchdata.com
http://www.icrunchdata.com -
Imex.com - internet international business exchange
http://www.imex.com -
International Statistics Agencies
http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html -
International Statistical Institute
http://www.cbs.nl/isi/ - International Student & Scholars Office at Cornell - Immigration & Visa Information
http://www.isso.cornell.edu/immigration/imm.php - Johnson Graduate School of Management - framework for conducting a job search
http://www.library.cornell.edu/johnson/library/faq/JobSearch_Research -
K Force Professional Staffing
http://scipharm.kforce.com -
KD Nuggets - leading source of information on data mining, web mining, and knowledge discovery.
http://www.kdnuggets.com/ - Temp Services
- Kelly IT Resources
http://www.kellyit.com/web/global/kit/en/pages/NetTemps
http://www.nettemps.com
Linked In - expand job searching network
http://www.linkedin.com/
Marketing and Sales Jobs - MarketingJobs.com
http://www.marketingjobs.com-
Merkle Direct Marketing - job openings at a leading provider of information-based database marketing services
http://www.merklenet.com/ -
Medzilla - jobs in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare and science
http://www.medzilla.com/ -
Professional Societies - to network and find a job.
http://www.stat.cornell.edu/resources/societies.shtml -
QUANTster - a global source for quantitative professionals
http://www.quantster.com -
RJS Associates Professional Staffing Services
http://www.rjsassoc.com -
Statistics.com - jobs, employers, and general information about the field.
http://www.statistics.com -
Statistics Employers - extensive listing from Duke University's Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
http://www-old.isds.duke.edu/jobs -
The Urban Institute - a nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization. Internships and job opportunities.
http://www.urban.org -
Thomson Careers - job opportunities around the globe
http://www.thomsoncareers.com -
U.S. Federal Agencies with Statistics Programs
http://www.fedstats.gov/agencies -
Vault.com
http://vault.com
