Why YOU Should Study Mathematics!

Begin your search for information about careers in the mathematical sciences at the following websites:

American Mathematical Society - http://www.ams.org/employment
Mathematical Association of America - http://www.maa.org/careers/index.html

A list of guides to different careers in mathematics
http://www.cms.math.ca/Employment/

Careers that Count from the Association for Women in Mathematics
http://www.awm-math.org/ctcbrochure/toc.html

Industry - Several areas of business and industry hire people with mathematics degrees.

Be an Actuary - http://www.beanactuary.org/ - One of the top-rated jobs in America. Actuaries make financial projections about uncertain future events and are often employed by insurance companies.

Careers in Business - http://www.careers-in-business.com

Econometric Society - http://www.econometricsociety.org

Institute for Mathematical Statistics - http://www.iamg.org

Institute for Operations Research and Management Scienceshttp://www.informs.org/ - Use mathematics and mathematical modeling to analyze problems and make decisions.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - http://www.siam.org

Federal Government - The federal government is the largest employer of mathematicians.

National Security Agency - http://www.nsa.qov -Mathematicians are hired to make codes that protect our national information system and break our adversaries' codes.

USA Jobs - http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/- This site contains information about jobs in branches of the government such as the General Accounting Office, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Social Security Administration that hire those with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.

Books that contain information about careers in the mathematical sciences:

Great Jobs for Math Majors, by Lambert and DeCotis
101 Careers in Mathematics, edited by Sterrett
She Does Math!, edited by Parker

All three books are available at http://www.maa.org/pubs/books/careers.html