This year the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is contributing to the annual OR Society Careers Open Day. The joint programme for the day will include a strong focus on working as a statistician across a range of sectors. See http://www.rss.org.uk/careers for further details.
This will be a really packed and informative day with a number of short and informal case study sessions led by practising statisticians, a plenary talk by Karen Dunnell, the new National Statistician, plus lots of stands run by employers and postgraduate course providers (see below). Everybody who attends should come away with an excellent sense of how statistical skills can be deployed in quite different sectors, the options open to them and how to get started on a career as a statistician.
Please join us if you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student at the point where you are considering your future career options. We would also encourage attendance by all those responsible for giving careers advice.
If you know students/colleagues who could benefit from participating in the day, please direct them towards the RSS webpages and encourage them to attend.
An e-mail to Debra Hurcomb at the RSS, to let her know you will be attending, would be much appreciated. Her contact details are: e-mail: [log in to unmask]: 020 7614 3934.
Thank you in advance for your attention to this message. We look forward to seeing you there!
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FURTHER SUMMARISED INFORMATION
Karen Dunnell, the National Statistician and Chief Registrar for England and Wales will be giving an introductory talk and during the day there will be informal case study sessions led by practising statisticians from the Welsh Assembly Government, GlaxoSmithKline, the Medical Research Council, Unilever, CACI Ltd (Financial Group) and mmr (Making More of Research). Immediately after lunch, colleagues from Pfizer will lead a plenary session on how to enter the profession as a pharmaceutical statistician. Operational Research sessions will be led by the Home Office, Tesco, British Airways, the Institute of Actuaries, PA Consulting and CAP Gemini
Exhibitors who have agreed to attend so far include: British Airways Plc, Cap Gemini UK plc, CORDA (BAE Systems), DSTL, DunnHumby, GlaxoSmithKline, Government OR Services, Government Statistical Services, Hartley McMaster Ltd, IBM, National Air Traffic Services, Pfizer Ltd, PA Consulting, Prospect Recruitment, QinetiQ, SPSL Retail, SRG Interesource, Steer Davies Gleave and the Universities of Aston, Kent, Lancaster, London School of Economics, Manchester, Southampton, Warwick and West of England ......more to follow.
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