Career Mentoring Workshop

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Career Mentoring Workshop

• Workshop 2
• The Job Search An Overview

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How do you find what jobs are available?

• EIMS job listings found on AMS website
• MathJobs.org
• SIAM Job Board found on SIAM website
• AMS Notices, MAA Focus, AWM Newsletter, etc.
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• HigherEdJobs.com

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What kind of jobs are out there?

• Tenuretrack position
• Group I, II, III (have a Ph.D. program)
• Group M, B (highest math degree is Masters and
  Bachelors respectfully)
• 68 of fall 2005 tenure or tenure-track
  mathematics hires were made by Group B and M
  schools where teaching is rated as more important
  than research.

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What kind of jobs are out there?

• Tenure-track job at a two-year (community)
  college
• Nontenure track job sometimes known as a
  lecture position and can have 1 to 3 year
  contracts

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Postdocs

• Research Postdoc
• Teaching Postdoc
• Can be found at the United States Military
  Academy, University of Arizona, Harvard
  University, and University of Minnesota

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Options to Consider

• Doing a postdoc during a tenure-track job
• Changing tenure track jobs
• Taking a nonacademic job
• 1 employer of people with math degrees is the
  National Security Agency (NSA)
• Other possibilities IBM, NASA, etc.

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Background of Mentors

• Rachelle DeCoste
• Undergrad liberal arts college
• Grad School UNC Chapel Hill
• First Job Teaching postdoc at USMA which also
  included some research
• Current Job Tenure track at liberal arts
  college (Wheaton College)

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• Alissa Crans
• Undergrad liberal arts college
• Grad School Univ. of CA at Riverside
• First Job Tenure track at liberal arts college
  (Loyola Marymount Univ.)
• Postdoc done at Ohio State Univ. after first
  year in job

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• Ulrica Wilson
• Undergrad liberal arts college
• Grad School Emory University
• First Job Postdoc at Claremont McKenna College
  (liberal arts college)
• Second Job Postdoc at Univ. of CA at San Diego
• Current Job Tenure track job at liberal arts
  college (Morehouse College)

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• Farrah Chandler
• Undergrad North Carolina AT State University
• Grad School North Carolina State University
• First Job Tenure track job at Univ. of North
  Carolina at Wilmington
• Current Job Tenure track job at Elizabeth City
  State Univ.

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• Sarah Ann Stewart
• Undergrad liberal arts college
• Grad School Vanderbilt Univ.
• First job Tenure track job at liberal arts
  college (North Central College)
• Current job Tenure track job at liberal arts
  college (Belmont University)