MathsCareer Profiles
The range of careers open to STEM graduates is very broad indeed. To give you an idea, we have put together a collection of personal career profiles of STEM graduates, as well as links to other websites that feature such profiles.
Interview with Matt Candy
Product designer Matt Candy combines mathematical skills with practical know-how to create everything from aeroplane seats to coffee machines. Jacob Aron talked to him about how maths has helped drive his varied career.
Interview with Richard Farleigh
Richard Farleigh's love of maths led him from a tough start into a $66 million fortune, a spot on 'Dragon's Den' and being a guardian angel for many fledging businesses.
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Plus magazine career profiles page
A collection of interviews from people in various maths-related careers, showing the wide range of uses maths can get put to in the real world.
Interviews!
This page offers some interviews conducted by Maths Careers website writers Jacob Aron and Kate Oliver. Interviewees include, Professor Peter Cameron, millionaire businessman Richard Farleigh and product designer Matt Candy who helped to manage the team that broke the land speed record for a steam-powered car in 2009.
Careers from the MAA
The Mathematical Association of America provides many profiles of people applying mathematics in both the commercial and academic arenas.
Early career profiles from the AMS
The American Mathematical Society recruits and supports a network of mathematical sciences departments that systematically provide job profiles of their recent bachelors-level alumni.
Career profiles from the Royal Statistical Society
Careers profiles of statisticians working in the actuarial, biometric, environmental, forensic, government, market research, medical, pharmaceutical and academic fields.
Women into Science, Engineering and Construction (WISE)
Profiles of inspirational women, great role models who have defied stereotypes and pursued their dreams to follow careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Construction.
Prospects.ac.uk
A comprehensive careers web site for all graduates offering advice and information on various career paths, as well as employer lists and job vacancies. The site also features case studies and information on graduate destinations and salaries.
Prospects.ac.uk: Options with your subject
Discover how best to use your degree.
Learn about O.R Career Profiles
One major career path for mathematicians is to go into operational research. This is about helping modern organisations to function efficiently. Whether it's transport logistics or financial issues, it takes a mathematician to understand the complicated systems involved and to suggest optimal solutions. On its webpage, the Operational Research Society has put together a list of career profiles.
Career models from The Actuarial Profession
A number of actuaries working in finance, investment and risk management have written a summary note describing how they made the transition to this type of work, and providing tips for others who wish to follow.
National Council for Work Experience: Student Case Studies
The case studies on this page highlight what students can achieve while undertaking a variety of work experience opportunities.
Career profiles from NASA
Biographies of NASA astronauts, many of which have degrees in STEM.
Career profiles from GORS
Some employee profiles from the Government Operational Research Service.
YouCanDoMaths.com.au
More career profiles, offered by the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers.
Maths: make your career count
Career profiles produced through The Improving Mathematics Education in Schools (TIMES) Project and funded by the Australian Government.
Hidden Science Map
10 Minute Volunteering for STEM
A new careers resource from the Science Council, The Hidden Science Map, is being created to give young people all over the UK a way to see that people working with science are all around them. It also gives them a way to learn something about the thousands of jobs to which they could aspire, including careers they may never have thought of.