<p>To those of you who graduated (recently perhaps) with an undergraduate degree in mathematics, what are you doing now? How was the job search, if you decided on something other than graduate school?</p>
<p>Any others know how your school's graduated math majors fared in the job market?</p>
<p>I’m about to graduate with an undergraduate degree in math.</p>
<p>In this economy, it is not easy. Not a lot of entry-level hirers are looking for math majors specifically. I’ve mostly applied for software testing positions and analytical ones. Haven’t landed a job yet. :/</p>
<p>I can give you two bits of advice though:
<p>Really, the thing that will help the most is talking to as many people as you can. If you have not started going to bars yet (preferably with friends), I would seriously recommend doing so, because you actually meet people in the real world there. (I don’t live in a college town though).</p>
<p>Currently, the economy is just really, really rough.</p>
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<p>Would those exams help for more general work? It seems like from what I’ve read that the market for actuaries is way oversaturated, and 2 exams isn’t really enough to get a job.</p>
<p>It won’t help for more general work. The market for actuaries at the entry-level is definitely more competitive than it has been in the past, but that’s true across the board. I still think it’s an excellent chance at getting a job.</p>
<p>It’s not useful if you don’t want to go into that field, but the other advice still applies. So much math just isn’t useful in the real world, and that is not the case with statistics or probability.</p>
<p>My brother graduated with a math major two years ago, and just this past April graduated from a bio statistics masters program and will be starting on his PhD in epidemiology in the fall. So to get money, he’s been doing research, and that is what he’ll probably doing the rest of his life.</p>
<p>The actuarial sciences is serious stuff. Don’t bother preparing for actuarial positions if you are not serious about working as an actuary for years to come.</p>
<p>Actuarial science market is definitely oversaturated, and if you don’t have internship experience or good connections it will be very hard to find a job even if you have passed 2~3 exams.</p>
<p>Actuarial science is great if you’re REAALLLY good at math (like perfect score on your SAT’s is a prereq here).</p>
<p>You can try the engineering world and become an engineer (depends what kind of math you learned).</p>