This is a guest post by Benedict Noël of Zombal. Many statisticians do a little bit of consulting in addition to their main job, and Zombal provides a way for people to find such work.
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A LaTeX template for a CV
Every researcher needs a Curriculum Vitae (Latin for “course of life”) or CV. You will need it for job applications, for annual performance appraisal, and just for keeping track of your publications. A CV typically contains lists of achievements including qualifications, publications, presentations, awards, plus teaching experience. I’ve created a LaTeX style for a CV to make it easy to produce something that looks good and is easy to maintain. You will need an up-to-date implementation of LaTeX because I’m using the wonderful biblatex package (more on that in another post) which has only just become available as part of MikTeX and TeXLive. The preamble of your CV should look something like this: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage{cv} \name{Rob J Hyndman} \info{Address: & Department of Econometrics \& Business Statistics, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia.\\ Phone: & +61 3 9905 2358\\ Email: & Rob.Hyndman@monash.edu\\ WWW: & robjhyndman.com} \bibliography{rjhpubs} \addtocategory{books}{MWH3,ITSM91,ITSM94,expsmooth08} \addtocategory{papers}{BHG91,BH92,YW93,Hyndman94,HDRF95} \addtocategory{papers}{HDR96,HBG96,HF96,GHH97,HW97,LFSH97,GH98} Include your name in the \name command. The \info command contains information to go in the header box on the first page. This is structured as for a tabular environment. You can include any information you like in the \info command including additional rows. Some people include their date of birth, citizenship, family details, etc. All your
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Job advertisements
Employers often contact me asking how to find a good statistician, econometrician or forecaster for their organization. Students also ask me how to go about finding a job when they finish their degree. This post is for both groups, hopefully making it easier for them to pair up appropriately. First, the mainstream media outlets are not usually good places to advertise. It seems that few people read printed newspapers anymore. The general online job sites such as seek.com.au are ok, but job-seekers can find it hard to find the relevant openings because job titles are so varied. In the general area of statistics, a job can appear under the titles “statistician”, “analyst”, “data miner”, “data manager”, “financial engineer” and a few dozen other labels. Many employers don’t place the job in the best category, often because they don’t understand what skills are required to do the job. Nevertheless, if I was looking for a job, I would certainly set up some automated searches on these sites. In statistics, there are well-established job websites that are the best places for both employers and potential employees to meet up. Australia & New Zealand: www.statsci.org/jobs. This is a fantastic service from the Statistical Society of Australia and includes a lot of jobs, particularly those
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What to do when the PhD is finished?
So you’re wondering what to do once your PhD is finally completed? First, take a holiday. Completing a PhD is an intense and draining exercise, and you should take some time to refresh. Then you need to decide what career path you prefer. In statistics, there are three choices: the academic route, the semi-academic route and the business route. Academic route Most PhD students would like an academic job. In fact, I think all of my PhD students have rather fancied my job! However, it is not an easy path, especially in the first few years. The ideal situation is to get a post-doctoral fellowship, preferably in a different university (and a different country) from where you studied for your doctorate. That gives you some time to concentrate on consolidating your research and to learn from another supervisor. Working in a different country also helps you develop a broader network of research contacts. But there aren’t many post-doc positions around, and so it is hard to get something suitable. I am occasionally asked by other researchers if I have any good students finishing soon as they have a post-doc position available. In this case, I pass the information on to any students likely to finish at about the right time. But these are positions
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