<p>I really wonder what happens to a lot of people. Do most people end up finding a job? I'm graduating next month and I'm honestly a little freaked out about it. Not like sweating bullets or anything, just kinda unsure about how...well..life is going to go down for me. So, I've started to make back up plans. My girlfriend's step-dad has been trying hard to scrape up a job for me where he works at that'll be more in line with my skillset. I'm an applied math/statistics major, by the way. Maybe he'll come through, but I haven't counted on it. We recently had a career fair. I went to it, talked to a bunch of employers, and did a few interviews already. I've had my resume looked at three times by three different people at the career center and a slew of employers critique it. I've given my resume out at least to 20 employers and my girlfriend's step-dad has been trying to generate some interest in it with others. I've taken advantage of the career center as much as I can. My basic plan is just to apply apply apply and see what comes back.</p>
<p>But what if nothing does? That's kind of scary to me. I'm sure it happens. I don't know if it'll happen to me, but it is a little frightening to think about. My back up plans are graduate school and if I don't get into graduate school, I guess I'll be taking as many engineering courses back at my old community college and find a crappy part-time job in the meantime. A friend of mine is going into real estate after he finishes his math major and then my other friend has no idea what he's going to do. His GPA is bad and he figures that since he's rich he can just throw money at a graduate program and they'd let him in. Well, I don't come from a rich family. I'll be the first college graduate in my family. Another back up plan I think for me would be to join the military as an officer, but I think I might not qualify due to health reasons. It'll suck to feel like a failure if I'm jobles and still living with my parents at 24 (I started at 19 and took an extra year at community college). </p>
<p>Isn’t it quite late in the job hunt cycle for Srs? Not to bag on you, just wondering. Did anything ever come up about working in data science areas? I don’t know yet how undergrads are used in this area, maybe grad degrees are the baseline but I thought there should be some roles with that skillset. You weren’t looking at finance type jobs? What about those offers you got at career fair that you mentioned elsewhere? And earlier you said there was something in software but maybe that’s a last resort because of lack of interest? I don’t think you should be too nervous, you should work before doing anything drastic. Anyway congratulations on finishing up </p>
<p>I don’t think so? Maybe for people like my girlfriend. Her graduation is on the 10th (goes to a different school though). I’ve been looking at jobs since our spring quarter started. Our spring career fair just happened and we graduate in mid-June. No, I am not interested in finance type jobs, although I had an internship in it and employers would talk to me about it during an interview. Some of them even talked about their own financial experiences and we’d talk about investing for a little bit. One of the employers I talked to told me that I’d work on a variety of problems for them if I got the job, but it’d mostly be engineering related. </p>
<p>I got interviews, I don’t know if I’m actually going to be one the one who lands the job. I haven’t heard anything back yet. I’m sure there are people that are just as qualified as me, if not more qualified trying to get the same kind of jobs I’m applying to.</p>
<p>Software would definitely be my last resort. Although I will probably do programming in most jobs I’m likely to get, I don’t want it to be the only thing I do. A lot of the jobs I’ve looked at do work with computers, but a common theme to them is that they have rotational development programs where you can work in one area and then move onto the next until you find what you like. Or they’re like I said before, engineering related, but I’d have to be flexible and work on other types of problems for them. I really don’t want to just work at a software company like my girlfriend’s step-dad does and sit there all day typing lines of code. I can’t say that I enjoy coding very much when the work isn’t interesting, but I’d do it if that’s all I had. I did apply for a few business analyst roles at companies and that I guess would be fine as a temporary role, but it’s definitely in the wrong direction of where I want my career to go. I’d definitely want to work as an “engineering mathematician”. My father has shown me some pretty cool stuff I can do for the military as a civilian and it pays well but all I can do is apply for now. </p>
<p>As for data scientist jobs, there are some I have noticed that do cater to bachelor’s students, but they are very few in number that I’ve seen. I’ve seen most of them wanting master’s in statistics. </p>
<p>I was mentioning the data scientist jobs because they will value your stats skills and you can use them, and with any experience the pay goes up fast. and the finance I meant for modeling/analyst. If you get an opportunity to do something that gives you rotations that is really good. Good luck.</p>
<p>Finance jobs do not necessary need to be at a finance company. You can be a financial analysts at almost any large companies. As an example, a large retail chain would have analysts analyzing sales trend, doing projections, coming up with planograms on how to optimize their shelfs. Have you thought about becoming an actuary? Data scientist job is booming right now (Big Data). They may advertise for master degree candidates, but I would apply anyway. I hire a lot of new graduates and train them from ground up. There are so many career a mathematician/statistician could go into. I am surprise you didn’t look for a job earlier. What did you do last summer? A lot of students take a meaningful junior summer internship and get a job offer after the internship. Looking for a permanent job spring of senior year is very late, but there are people who don’t look until summer and still get jobs.</p>
<p>I thought about becoming an actuary a year ago, but it would not be my first choice nor my fifth choice nor my tenth choice as a career. I shadowed an actuary, talked to our graduate advisor about actuaries, and went to a few presentations on campus about them where they spent time explaining what they did. It did not sound like an enjoyable job. It is also a considerable time commitment. I think I’d rather get a master’s in statistics than take all of those tests for an actuary job. </p>
<p>I’ll take your advice and apply to data scientist jobs. Last summer I visited my long-distance girlfriend, heavily looked for internships and jobs, and I landed two internships for the fall. I did my internship in the fall. I did very well, but I wasn’t offered a job or anything. I have a friend who is working at an engineering company and they don’t offer you a job either after graduation. It just depends on if they have a space to fill, you apply for it, and then they’ll take the fact that you’ve worked there into consideration. I tried to look for a meaningful internship to from Jan to June, but I didn’t find anything close enough. I actually don’t know anyone that has gotten a job with a company after having an internship at a company and I talk to many math majors to get a feel of what everyone is going to do or are currently doing to plan for a career. I haven’t found the advice of any professors particularly helpful since they’ve never worked in anything other than academia. Their advice to me was basically to go to graduate school.</p>
<p>I got a full time job and graduate this weekend. From all my friends its about half and half of who got jobs and who will be living at home. I did a lot of networking. I used the career center and I used family and friends contacts at companies to get my foot in the door for interviews. I used glassdoor and tweetmyjobs and made a profile and they both email you job lists based on what you’re looking for. </p>
<p>The job market is tough right now since most people are going to college now. My Econ professor quoted that 1 in 4 people have college degrees now which makes networking crucial now as that extra step to get your foot in the door. </p>
<p>locked up my job in the Fall and I think most of the people I know here did as well. Almost everyone I know has a job lined up after college (or are going to grad school). That’s all engineering though so it is a little different. </p>
<p>Congratulations on you graduation.
It is true that your senior year is the time for job search and graduate school application, so upon graduation, you know where you will be heading to in the fall. However, it does not work out so well for everyone.
You can just pick up customers service job within your school, get a roommate, and prepare for graduate exams and start applying for grad school. This will give you time to maybe take a few classes if you are going to need them, but also be able to save enough to pay your bills, apply to grad schools and attend grad school interviews. But you have to be certain that you want to go to grad school to take this route,
If grad school is not so much what you want to do now, you can just pick up any odd jobs so to pay your bills now, and continue job search and job interviews till you land a good paying job with benefits. Applied Maths/ statistics, is a good degree, not sure how your GPA is, but you should not be jobless for too long with that degree - that is if you really want to work.
Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>I can understand your fear and uncertainty involved here. First thing to be said is congratulations on graduating though. I would work as hard as possible to get out and talk to any and everyone. Join LinkedIn or any other networking sites. If any jobs come up even that you don’t like take them. Graduate school seems like a stop gap measure putting your life on hold and seemingly you will be in the same situation just with more debt in two years. Goodluck man hope we can both get jobs .</p>
<p>I applied to a lot of jobs about a month after graduating college. No luck.</p>
<p>I got an interview finally and we set a date. I flew in, killed the interview, and they told me I got the job a month later.</p>
<p>They knew I had no programming experience really, but they gave me a month to learn everything and start taking tickets and developing. They’ve decided to start hiring math undergraduates.</p>
<p>I got promoted a week ago.</p>
<p>I’ve been applying to other jobs in the meantime since I want a better salary. I also still do not like programming but can do it. It is very draining, but I like my coworkers. A hiring manager for a defense contractor is considering hiring me as a physicist/mathematician and another is considering me for an operations research role. I’m currently applying to graduate schools for Mechanical Engineering.</p>