A buddy of mine is looking for a job, suggestions?

misle

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A friend of mine is looking for a job. I told him I would try to help him out.

He recently graduated with a BS in Physics and a BS in Math. He's really into number theory, but would take about any entry level job that he is qualified for.

What are some good companies that he should apply to? Any specific government jobs?

Thanks.
 

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Do you want fries with that?

Actually - he should look into the IRS, they have people with a variety of backgrounds - he might fit in their number crunching side.
 

misle

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Originally posted by: Shelly21
IT support help desk.
He's not anywhere close to being a computer geek, hence why I'm posting this here and not him. :p

he should look into the IRS
that's not a bad idea, I'll pass it on.
 

FoBoT

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i heard the railroads are hiring, i guess they have a lot of people retiring over the next 5-10 years they have to replace
 

misle

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Derivatives trader - Big bucks no whammies

When I was a kid I loved that show. Whammies were awesome!
 

Armitage

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Can he get a clearance? Lot's of defense contractors look for people like that. I'm guessing that the DOE labs probably aren't to interested with just a B.S. unless his grades completely rock & from a good school.
 

Rumpltzer

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Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Has he thought about working at a lab like Lawrence Livermore (http://jobs.llnl.gov/prod_index.html), Sandia (http://www.sandia.gov/employment/career-opp/index.html), or Los Alamos (http://www.hr.lanl.gov/FindJob/index.stm)?

-geoff
I'm not sure a BS is gonna cut it at one of the national labs. Does he want to go to grad school?

One of those huge engineering consulting firms is one place to start if he's just looking for any old thing to do. The BS might get also him a teaching position at a community college if he's interested in going that route.

A former roommate of mine took his masters in math (theory, not applied and not computational) and got himself an actuary position. Easy job and high pay as long as you can pass the exams (if you can do math).
 

Passions

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Originally posted by: maziwanka
NSA is a great place to look for jobs.

edited: grammar sucked

Will : Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a sh*t. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
 

eigen

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Originally posted by: maziwanka
NSA is a great place to look for jobs.

edited: grammar sucked

He saidn he is not a computer geek. So the NSA is a no go. That want C++/C experience and Unix/linux experience just to do a internship.