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Finding Jobs Working All this consulting stuff is pretty academic without a job. So ... STAT8801 Jobs: Finding openings. Statistical Consulting Jobs: Getting hired. School of Statistics Jobs: Keeping them. University of Minnesota We’ll cover the first two. April 28, 2010 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 1 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 2 / 1 Printed sources Amstat News Job Search Results [ASA JobWeb] http://jobs.amstat.org/search/results/index.cfm?display=print& Search Results Two principal sources for statistics: 69 jobs found Posted Within All Active Jobs All Active Jobs View: Quick | Summary New Search • Refine Search • Make This Search a Job Agent POSTED JOB TITLE COMPANY LOCATION SAVE The Amstat News Apr. 13, 2007 Care Management Johns Hopkins US - MD - Glen Health Data HealthCare Burnie Analyst The IMS Bulletin Apr. 13, 2007 Statistical Affymetrix, Inc. US - CA - Santa Geneticist Clara Apr. 13, 2007 Director, GlaxoSmithKline US - PA - King Discovery of Prussia Statistics - CVU CEDD The IMS Bulletin jobs are mostly academic. Apr. 13, 2007 Biostatistician The Rockefeller US - NY - New University York Apr. 13, 2007 Assistant Clayton State US - GA - The Amstat News jobs are a mix of academic, industry, and government. Professor University Morrow Apr. 13, 2007 Research Analyst ChapterHouse, LLC US - IL - Lisle Positions Apr. 12, 2007 Principal Research Abbott Laboratories US - IL - Abbott There are also electronic versions. See www.imstat.org/bulletin/ or Statistician: Park Pharmacokinetics http://jobs.amstat.org/search.cfm Apr. 12, 2007 Assistant Texas A&M US - TX - Professor - University-Kingsville Kingsville Statistics Apr. 12, 2007 Chief Scientist One Technologies, US - TX - Dallas L.P. Apr. 12, 2007 Research SAS Institute, Inc. US - NC - Cary Statistician-Data Mining Applications Dev STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 3 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 4 / 1 Apr. 12, 2007 Research SAS Institute, Inc. US - NC - Cary Statistician - Algorithm Developer

IMS Bulletin Tis the Season Industry and goverment jobs come open more or less year round. Academic jobs are advertised October through February. Academic interviews are generally January through April for jobs beginning in August or September. Sometimes late surprises. STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 5 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 6 / 1 Announcements Joint Statistical Meetings We have a clipboard of job annoucements/fellowships/etc posted across The JSM has a Career Placement Fair each August, this year in from 313 Ford. Washington, DC. University of Florida has a “virtual” job board at: For a small fee, you can interview with recruiters from many companies www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/jobs.html . (e.g., Amgen, Abbott Labs, Capitol One, Fannie Mae, John Deere Credit Mostly academic, some non-academic. in 2008). STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 7 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 8 / 1

Word of mouth Head Hunters Rare for academic jobs, common for industry jobs. Err ... employment search professionals. Networking helps! Generally costs you nothing. They get paid by employer to fill the job. You know someone, who knows someone, who knows about a job. They frequently know about unadvertised jobs. ASA has local groups, such as Some attend JSM. http://sitekreator.com/ASATwinCities/index.html STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 9 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 10 / 1 Web Sites Where to work 1 Universities, both academic and staff. 2 Pharmaceutical/medical companies. 3 Government. You’ve seen the ads. 4 Banking, credit and the like. For example, www.monster.com had 188 job listings for statisticians on 5 Marketing. 4/25/2008. 6 Think tanks (e.g., Rand Corp). 7 Research organizations. 8 Business research groups (e.g., Best Buy). 9 Many others. STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 11 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 12 / 1

Pharmaceutical Industry CRO Rocco Brunelle (ASA Consulting Newsletter 2000) says roles of statistician are changing. Contract Research Organization (Quintiles, Trilogy, etc). Old way: Hired guns brought in by drug companies. Member of self-managed team. Drug company pays CRO by hour worked, CRO pays statistician a salary. Time lines present, but subordinate to quality analysis. (Some drug company depts. run like internal CROs.) Lots of background, refinements, and tuning of studies. You get lots of experience in a hurry. New way: Could be on or off site work. You earn a fraction of what the drug company pays the CRO for your work. Short, aggressive time lines. Analysis needed within days of data. Much up front planning needed for analysis. STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 13 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 14 / 1 Basics Academic job Usually requires PhD. How do you get a job? The following may you an interview: Published papers. Background/education Letters of recommendation. Experience Teaching experience. R´ esum´ e/CV Degree from good program. Interview Better grades. Grades almost irrelevant more than a couple years after degree. STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 15 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 16 / 1

Industry job R´ esum´ e/CV Requirements much more varied. Generally much less, or no, interested in research. They want to see: This is where you need to catch their eye. Communications skills. The R´ esum´ e or Curriculum Vitae lists background, experience, Interpersonal skills. accomplishments, goals, references, etc. Technical skills. Academic and industrial r´ esum´ es are very different! Organizational skills. Computing skills (sometimes). Good grades. Subject-matter knowledge. STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 17 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 18 / 1 The CV The R´ esum´ e Academic CV lists practically everything you’ve done. Biographical information. Industrial r´ esum´ e is a different animal. Education. Employment history. The job of a r´ esum´ e is to get you an interview. Publications. Usually just a single page. Talks given. Courses taught. Review, summarize, and present your experience and achivements and your job goal. Students advised. Service. Your r´ esum´ e needs to interest them in you in just a few seconds. Grants. Awards. STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 19 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 20 / 1

Tips More tips from Yana The internet is full of r´ esum´ e tips ... just Google resume tips . 1. Choose a target job (also called a ”job objective”). An actual job title Here are some from http://jobstar.org/tools/resume/yana.php works best. 2. Find out what skills, knowledge, and experience are needed to do that 1 Your r´ esum´ e is your marketing tool, not a personnel document. target job. 2 It is about YOU the job hunter, not just about the jobs you’ve held. 3. Make a list of your 2, 3, or 4 strongest skills or abilities or knowledge 3 It focuses on your future, not your past. that make you a good candidate for the target job. 4. For each key skill, think of several accomplishments from your past 4 It emphasizes your accomplishments, not your past job duties or job work history that illustrate that skill. descriptions. 5. Describe each accomplishment in a simple, powerful, action statement 5 It documents skills you enjoy using, not skills you used just because that emphasizes the results that benefited your employer. you had to. STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 21 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 22 / 1 More tips from Yana Still more tips www.free-resume-tips.com/10tips.html has another set of tips. 6. Make a list of the primary jobs you’ve held, in chronological order. Use titles that match the job you want. So “Senior Biostatistician” Include any unpaid work that fills a gap or that shows you have the skills instead of statistician. for the job. Use good design. Don’t make the reader work. Design the r´ esum´ e so 7. Make a list of your training and education that’s related to the new job that the important stuff stands out and is easy to find. you want. 8. Choose a r´ esum´ e format that fits your situation–either chronological or Create content that sells. Don’t say “Experience with SAS” try functional. [Functional works best if you’re changing fields; chronological “Developed SAS program to manage 5,000 subject clinical trial.” works well if you’re moving up in the same field.] Quantify and use power words. Direct, supervise, organize, etc. 9. Arrange your action statements according to the format you choose. Analyze key skills in job descriptions. Revise your r´ esum´ e to 10. Summarize your key points at the top of your r´ esum´ e. emphasize those skills. STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 23 / 1 STAT8801 (Univ. of Minnesota) Working April 28, 2010 24 / 1