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career Archive
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Mastering LinkedIn: A Statistician’s Guide to Building a Standout Profile
Eric Cai offers tips for creating an effective LinkedIn profile while focusing on a professional photo, a compelling headline, and the use of recommendations and images to showcase accomplishments.
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Mentoring Award Nominations Due March 1
The ASA Mentoring Award is given each year to a member who has demonstrated extraordinary leadership in developing the careers of statistics students, statisticians, or statistical researchers early in their careers.
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Capture Attention, Provide Rich Experience with Visual Storytelling
With the popularity of video skyrocketing, there will probably come a time in your career when you are asked to tell a story visually. Video has several benefits, but the most important is its ability to combine visuals, sound, and movement to capture your viewer’s attention more effectively and give them a richer experience. If creating a video seems daunting, it doesn’t have to be. Read on for a few tips.
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JSM Mentoring Session Stressed Networking, Making Connections
ASA President-Elect Ji-Hyun Lee and ASA Vice President Jenny Thompson offered insights, stressed the importance of networking skills, emphasized being purposeful and authentic, and encouraged forming personal connections.
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Application Open for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for outstanding early-career graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high-achieving scientists and engineers.
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Promoting Your Consulting Business (Carefully) with Email
Email is one way to find clients for a new statistical consulting business, but they should be written carefully. If your emails are too strongly worded and sent too often, you may lose your audience or have your emails marked as spam.
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Two Honored with Ellis R. Ott Scholarship
The Ellis R. Ott Scholarship Governing Committee awards two $7,500 scholarships to promising master’s and PhD candidates pursuing degrees in statistics and related disciplines. This year, the honorees are Valeria Ovalle Ocampo and Luke Hagar.
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Nominations Being Accepted for 2025 Morgan Prize
Nominate an undergraduate student or students for outstanding research in mathematics by May 31.
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Apply for the Annie T. Randall Innovator Award
Early-career statisticians can apply or be nominated for the Annie T. Randall Innovator Award, named for a Black female statistician for her pioneering career in government amid pervasive racial discrimination.
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CUBE Program: A Student’s View of the World of Biostatistics
During the summer of 2022, Kayla Williams participated in the Collaborative Undergraduate Biostatistics Experience program at Virginia Tech. She enjoyed learning about the application of mathematical and statistical concepts to answer real-world questions and realized biostatistics was something she wanted as a career. Here, she tells a little about her experience.