22 Career Resources
22.1 Motivation
I had a tough time finding examples of job materials for quantitatively-inclined candidates. Here are representative examples from my own materials. Hopefully, they’ll be able to help inspire your own materials. In addition, I’ve added some of the other resources and information that I found helpful. Although this collection has focused on academic jobs, I also considered industry jobs in my search.
22.2 Academic Jobs
22.2.1 General Advice
American Psychological Association APA Career Resources
Jaremka, L. M., Ackerman, J. M., Gawronski, B., Rule, N. O., Sweeny, K., Tropp, L. R., Metz, M. A., Molina, L., Ryan, W. S., & Vick, S. B. (2020). Common Academic Experiences No One Talks About: Repeated Rejection, Impostor Syndrome, and Burnout. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 15(3), 519–543. https://doi-org.go.libproxy.wakehealth.edu/10.1177/1745691619898848
Bureau of Labor Statistics on STEM crisis or STEM surplus? Yes and yes
Washington Post on The academic job market is a nightmare
Jeremy Yoder on I Found a Tenure-Track Job. Here’s What it Took
22.2.2 Materials
22.2.2.5 Example Materials
#Psychology folks on the #jobmarket -- I've uploaded all my job search materials including teaching, research and diversity statements to my @OSFramework page. I hope that they might be helpful https://t.co/uuieRolpq8 in these weird times. @AcademicChatter
— Prof. Mason Garrison 🌈💫✨ (@SMasonGarrison) October 1, 2020
22.2.3 Interviews
- UConn’s Common Academic Interview Questions (https://career.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/12/common-academic-inteview-questions.pdf)
- https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researcher-careers/pursuing-an-academic-career/applying-for-academic-jobs/commonly-asked-questions-in-academic-interviews#general-research-questions
Job Talk
- Boysen, G. A., Jones, C., Kaltwasser, R., & Thompson, E. (2018). Keys to a successful job talk: Perceptions of psychology faculty. Teaching of Psychology, 45(3), 270-277.
22.2.4 Negotiating
1. People are interviewing for jobs, which means that soon people will be negotiating offers. Here is a thread about some of my experiences doing so:
— Dr. Larisa, Assistant (to the) Regional Professor (@samclab) November 17, 2021
22.3 Industry
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22.4.2 Industry
Most data-savvy companies have a careers page. I’ve included some of those pages here of companies I applied to, were recruited by, or would be interested in working for. There are also job boards, which companies post positions on. There’s some overlap, but not 100%.
22.5 Random Wisdom
Interesting discussion over on @rOpenSci forum 🍿
— Maëlle Salmon (@ma_salmon) December 16, 2021
"Workflow best practices" 🧰 #RStatshttps://t.co/60QeCwiYsC
With insights by @noamross @MilesMcBain @benmarwick