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 requir­ing higher degrees.
• United States:  amstat​.org/​j​obweb. This is a sim­i­lar ser­vice from the Amer­i­can Sta­tis­ti­cal Asso­ci­a­tion for jobs in the USA.

Unfor­tu­nately, there is no sim­i­lar ser­vice in the UK, and I do not know what is pro­vided in other countries.

There is a list of econo­met­ric jobs sites at econo­met­ri­clinks.

There are e-​​mail lists that are widely sub­scribed and often con­tain job postings.

• Aus­tralia and New Zealand sta­tis­tics: ANZ­s­tat (any­thing adver­tised here will auto­mat­i­cally also appear on www​.statsci​.org/jobs.)
• Aus­tralia and New Zealand econo­met­rics: ANZEcmet
• United King­dom sta­tis­tics: All­stat
• United King­dom econo­met­rics: Econometric-​​research (for research jobs)

A lot more email lists are men­tioned on econo­met­ri­clinks, some of which may be appro­pri­ate for job advertisements.

If I’ve missed any good places to adver­tise jobs, please add them in the com­ments.

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