Monica Johnston, Committee on Career Development Chair

The ASA Committee on Career Development (CCD) exists to serve ASA members. Whether you’re an early-career, mid-career, late-career, or retired member, the CCD provides resources relevant to you at each stage of your career. Access to these resources is one of the many benefits of ASA membership.

What does CCD provide?

We organize professional development sessions for JSM, giving members an opportunity to learn from experienced statisticians about career decisions and the impact those decisions have on their careers. Through sponsorship of other sessions at JSM, we support ASA committees, sections, and other groups who want to provide career support for subsets of statisticians such as postdoctoral statistics students, applied statisticians, women statisticians, consultants, and statisticians with a master’s degree.

What will CCD do at JSM 2016?

The CCD has arranged a career panel session for JSM 2016. The session, Career Development: Power Careers in Statistics, is free, but registration is required so the ASA staff can reserve a room large enough for the audience; last year’s panel presented to a standing-room-only crowd.

Additionally, we’re co-sponsoring two invited sessions and sponsoring one topic-contributed session. We are co-sponsoring, with the Caucus for Women in Statistics, Extraordinary cheap ativan Impact of Statistics and, with the Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences, Effective Self-Promotion to Advance Your Career in Statistics. We’re sponsoring the topic-contributed session The NISS Postdoctoral Program: Success Stories. Details of these sessions will be available in the online program.

Please stop by our information table in the JSM registration area. Gather information, ask a question, grab a snack, and leave us with your suggestions for future career development programs.

What’s next for CCD?

Currently, we are exploring interest in webinars about professional mobility for statisticians. We’ll review opinions and suggestions from those who stop by our information table at JSM 2016 and obtain input from other committees.

In April 2016, we submitted results of our career satisfaction survey of ASA members to the ASA Board. We hope results will assist the ASA as it considers career development needs of members. We look forward to reporting outcomes in future Amstat News issues. We also plan to develop CCD programs based on the outcomes of the survey and input from people who leave suggestions at our information table at JSM 2016.

If you have comments or suggestions, please contact Monica L. Johnston through the ASA Community.