Advice for New Ph.D.s

Career and Employment Related Articles

Academic Careers in Mathematics

• Kevin Charlwood Developing Your Curriculum Vitae
• Heather A. Lewis and John S. Caughman Tips for the Job Search: Applying for Academic and Postdoctoral Positions
• Kevin Charlwood Hiring A Statistician into a Mathematics Department
• Annalisa Crannell Applying for Jobs: Advice from the Front (and the Rear)
• Thomas Rishel The Academic Job Search Handbook
• David T. Kung Liberal Arts Jobs - Advice from the other side
• Visit the Chronicle of Higher Education for up-to-date articles on job hunting, salaries and the job market.
• Jonathan A. Dantzig, a University of Illinois Professor of Mechanical Engineering, shares some advice for academic job seekers in a 1995 article which is still on target: Landing an Academic Job: The process and the pitfalls
• Darren A. Narayan The Academic Job Search in Mathematics; an Applicant's Perspective (on the MAA web site)
• John Ewing Some Advice for Young Mathematicians (a pdf file)
• Thomas Hull, Michael A. Jones, and Diana M. Thomas Interviewing for a Job in Academia
• Kim Schneider and Frank Demeyer Memoir of a Job Search
• Ronald M. Davis Teaching at a Two-Year College--Is It For You?
• Frank Demeyer Finding Employment in a Ph.D. Granting Institution
• Navah Langmeyer From Both Sides ofthe Employment Register Table

The Nonacademic Job Market for Mathematicians

• Catherine O'Neil A View on the Transition from Academia to Finance
• Katy Piotrowski Using Placement and Career Development Services to Improve Your Job Search Results
• Stanley J. Benkoski (January, 1995 CoProf-sponsored Presentation)
  How to Prepare to Find a Job in Industry
• Ned Rijavec Becoming a Software Developer
• E. D. Elgethun Making the Transition from Teaching to Industry

• The Chronicle of Higher Education (contains job ads from some institutions which are not found in the mathematics publications).
  Federal Government Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
• CFD Jobs Database (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
  Euro-Math-Job Vacant Academic Positions in the European Departments of Mathematics and Statistics
• Higher Ed Jobs contains listings for all types of college jobs, and includes teaching positions for which only a Masters degree is required.
• Association for Women in Mathematics Career Resources
• Mathematical Association of America Employment Opportunities
• Placement firm for private, independent school teachers (K-12) Carney, Sandoe & Associates

Questions about AMS employment services should be directed to emp-info@ams.org