- Thursday, October 6, 2016
- 3:40 PM–4:30 PM
- Science Building 110
Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
The best jobs for last century? - Doctor and lawyer. The best jobs this century? - Mathematician/STEM careers!
A new 2014 ranking from CareerCast.com, a job search website, recently named mathematician the best job of 2014. “Mathematicians pull in a midlevel income of $101,360, according to CareerCast.com, and the field is expected to grow 23% in the next eight years,” states the Wall Street Journal blog post. Many students and professors think that teaching is the main (or only) career option for someone who studies mathematics. But there are hundreds of jobs for math students. However, just graduating with a math degree is not enough to guarantee getting one of these jobs. In this talk, we will talk about some of the exciting things mathematicians in business, industry, and government are doing in their careers and how these things are changing the world. And we will reveal the three things that recruiters say every math student should do to get a job.
Refreshments precede the talk at 3:30pm.
Made possible by the Vos Endowment for Excellence.
