<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I'm hoping to get some sort of research position at Booth for the summer, so that I can get some business knowledge/something to put on my resume while also taking a few classes that I need to get done due to starting a major late. </p>
<p>Does anyone know how people usually get this? Will it go up on CC or do people contact the professors individually?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>What business professors do research in tends to be very statistical. If you don’t know stat or can’t program in S, R or a statistics package like SAS, you’re not of much use.</p>
<p>Having statistical/programming knowledge isn’t necessary to get a position, but it is ideal. From what I can tell, quite a few of the Booth RA positions are fairly administrative and involve pulling/formatting data, or running surveys and field experiments, and not actual statistical analysis. Honestly as an RA you are doing the grunt work. Anyway, your best bet is to get in contact with the professors you are interested in working for and express interest; also check CCC and the student employment website.</p>
<p>Everything said so far is fairly on point. I’m a freshman, so just been at UChicago for 1 quarter now, but I did get a couple RA positions at Booth. Both were software-related, as in if I didn’t know how to code I wouldn’t have gotten the job.</p>
<p>What I did was check <a href=“https://jobboard.cs.uchicago.edu/[/url]”>https://jobboard.cs.uchicago.edu/</a> pretty regularly and whenever someone needs something they usually post there.</p>
<p>For summer stuff, you want to do that in advance (potentially before a professor has a specific project in mind) so definitely just cold e-mail a few. Alternatively, find a Booth MBA student and try to get a product set up, I’m hoping to do that next.</p>