Careers & Employment
 

Excellent comprehensive guides to careers in statistics and jobs involving statistics in Australia and New Zealand are maintained by Yunshun (Andy) Chen.

For a more comprehensive overview of things statistical see the Statistical Science Web also maintained by Gordon Smyth. This guide will lead you to information on careers, societies, conferences, statistics departments, mailing lists, courses, data sets, statistical computing, research funding, and a whole lot more.

Careers with the Australian Bureau of Statistics

The ABS offers a number of interesting career opportunities for statisticians. To find out more, please click here.

Employment prospects for 

-     statisticians (US): http://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/statisticians.htm

-          -   for research analysts (US): http://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/operations-research-analysts.htm

-          -  similar positions (US): http://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/statisticians.htm#tab-7

-          -Interview with Hal Varian on “The sexy job in the next ten years”: http://liesandstats.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/the-sexy-job-in-the-next-ten-years/

-          -   YouTube Video with Hal Varian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm3lZJdEvCc

-          -   What is a data-scientist?  http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/mar/02/data-scientist

 If you have any information on employment propects for statisticians that could be added to this page, please email eo@statsoc.org.au.