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Skills and Abilities
  • Critical thinking, analyzing, problem solving
  • Testing hypotheses
  • Ability to organize
  • Attention to detail
  • Calculating & computing numerical data
  • Interpreting technical data
  • Applying theory to solve problems
  • Determining relevant or extraneous information
  • Identifying relationships between problems and solutions
  • Explaining ideas
  • Describing problem-solving methods in non-technical language
  • Translating statistics/formulas into words
  • Computer programming
  • Analyzing statistics
  • Reasoning by analogy
  • Thinking/reasoning abstractly
  • Comparing information and data
  • Analytical and quantitative skills
Potential Career Paths
Career Area Employment Settings Sample Employers & Internship Sites
INDUSTRY
Research & Development    
Testing    
Mathematician    
Statistician    
Operations Research Analysis    
Technical Writing   Lockheed Martin
ECONOMIC & MARKET RESEARCH
Research Analysis Market research firms

Consulting firms

Corporations		 Buxton Co.

LECG, Inc.
GOVERNMENT
Statistician population growth  
Demographer    
Operations Research Analysis    
Lawyer    
INSURANCE
Actuarial Insurance companies

Management consulting firm		 Equitable

Towers Perrin
Underwriting Insurance companies State Farm Insurance
Sales Insurance companies Aetna U.S. Healthcare
RESEARCH
Statistics   Center For Studying Health System Change
COMPUTERS
Systems Analysis    
Programming   Raytheon

Lucent Technologies
BANKING-FINANCIAL SERVICES
Credit Lending  Commercial banks  
Financial Planner Financial services firms  
Broker Brokerage houses Apex Securities
Investment banking    
Accounting   Pricewaterhouse Coopers
EDUCATION
Teaching Secondary public and private schools Teach For America
  Colleges and universities Any institution with a mathematics program
BUSINESS
Consulting Management consulting firms
Independent consulting firms		  
Real Estate Commercial real estate brokerage firms Marcus & Millichap
Budget Analysis Non-profit organizations
Private industry 		 
Business Analysis Corporations Hewitt Associates LLC

Quaker Oats Co.
Benefits Specialist Human resources depts.  
Buying    
Management Non-profit organizations
Retail companies 		 
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