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by o_safadinho
3621 days ago
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I'm not sure about Mathematics, but for Statistics the American Statistical Association hold the 'Joint Statistical Meeting' every year. It is part continuing education classes, research presentations and career fair. Every year there are dozens of companies, universities and national research labs interviewing there. They also do a regular salary survey so you know what types of salaries are typical for Masters/PhD holders in different parts of the country and different industries. If you plan working in predictive modeling at an insurance company you will have to get credentialed by one of the two actuarial societies. The SOA just added more exams to their current schedule to cover various predictive modeling topics and the CAS decided to make the predictive modeling portion a separate credential. But this way, you do everything once and it is valid across most English speaking countries. It doesn't matter whether you want to work at AllState, ESurance or Liberty Mutual. They just pull your record with one of the Actuarial societies. I was saying that depending on what you specialize in they do have a lot in common. Given that you have similar specialties, why are economists and actuaries and statisticians able to judge a persons competence in some sort of standardized way but a tech company trying to hire someone in Machine Learning or Data Mining isn't able to do the same? |
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Including, as I mentioned, ones organized by the ACM and IEEE. Here's the ACM's stepping-off point for graduating students: https://www.acm.org/education/resources-for-grads . They have a twice monthly publication called CareerNews. The ACM links to the many resources available for getting an idea of pay scales in different parts of the country.
At this point, I don't know what to say. Yes, a few fields have credentialed requirements, ranging from haircutter to certified public accountant to lawyer to surgeon to engineer.
Most do not.
For example, if you plan working in predictive modeling at drug discovery company, no such credentials exist. Moreover, a credential from an actuarial society will almost worthless, and surely less important than a MS in biostatistics.
You keep coming back to: "why are economists and actuaries and statisticians able to judge a persons competence in some sort of standardized way".
Shrug I know nothing about those fields. For all I know, it's because there is a well-known set of laws and regulations they have to follow, and generally accepted practices, so most of the need for competence is to ensure that people know those laws and practices.
That's not the case for most fields. Including computer science, in all of its forms and incarnations.