FWD: Campus Info Session from Berkeley's MFE Program

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering program invites you to learn about career paths in finance for students with quantitative backgrounds.  The Berkeley MFE Program, which was launched in 2000, has helped hundreds of students begin rewarding careers on Wall Street and in many other financial centers around the world.  

We will hold an information session on campus at Caltech on Tuesday, April 9.   If you are interested in learning how your degree in engineering, physics, computer science, economics, statistics, mathematics, and related disciplines can to a career in finance, please join us.  Please see below for details.

UPCOMING BERKELEY MFE INFO SESSIONS

On Campus at Caltech

Date: April 9, 2013

Time: 5:30-6:30 PM

Location: Center for Student Services, Brennan Conference Room

MFE Admissions Staff and alumnus Ian Swanson (Ph.D., Caltech, 2005; MFE, Berkeley, 2010) will host the event.  Executive Director Linda Kreitzman will participate via conference phone to discuss career paths.  Please upload your resume prior to the event for an on-the-spot career assessment.  Refreshments served.

Please RSVP at bit.ly/14a9wnL

  

Can’t make it?  Join us at one of our upcoming online info sessions, held biweekly.  Upcoming online sessions:

April 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM Pacific time and May 1, 2013 at 10:00 AM Pacific time, berkeleymfe.webex.com.

Web conference session and Q& A with executive director Linda Kreitzman, current students and admissions staff. 

Please register and upload your resume prior to the event for an on-the-spot background assessment. 

Please register for all sessions at http://mfe.berkeley.edu/.    All are welcome. 

FWD: Job opening and also internships

The Hamilton Project (THP) is an economic policy group based at the Brookings Institution in DC.

THP has three research assistant positions that will open up this summer and we are seeking highly recommended candidates for these slots.

Research Assistantship in Health Economics

From: MIT Professor Amy Finkelstein

I am looking to hire highly skilled and motived full-time research assistants to begin in the summer or fall of 2013 and to work for at least one year.

Job at Kansas City Fed

The Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is recruiting for the position of Research Associate.

Paid Research Assistantship for Next Year

Economics professors David Laibson (Harvard University), Brigitte Madrian (Harvard University), James Choi (Yale University), and John Beshears (Stanford University) employ full‐time research assistants with start dates during the summer of 2013.

Job at St. Louis Fed

The Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is currently seeking Research Analysts.   A detailed job description can also be found on the Bank’s web site at http://research.stlouisfed.org/jobopps/ranalyst.pdf.  

Interviews will occur in Fall 2012 for a position with an immediate or early-2013 start date.  There will most likely be an additional round of interviews in early 2013 for positions that will start during the summer of 2013.

Job at Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

FWD: ... we are currently recruiting for a Research Associate (RA), and we seek candidates who are in the process of completing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in economics or related fields. Interested students can apply at:
https://frb.taleo.net/careersection/10jresearch/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en&portal=227355 

Video game firm seeks economist

Thanks to Lindsay Cleary, who pointed out that the video game firm Valve is seeking an economist to analyze their virtual worlds.  Here is a link to their jobs page: http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html

Job Opening

Acumen, LLC / The SPHERE Institute, is seeking entry and mid-level Quantitative Research Analysts, Research Analysts, Data System/Algorithm Programmers, and Software and Web Programmers to support research and consulting in the areas of health and social policy.

Further information regarding our firms and application forms can be found on their website at www.acumenllc.com.

Internship at the Public Policy Institute of California

The Richard J. Riordan Summer Internships opportunities are now posted on PPIC’s website.  For detailed position descriptions and application instructions for these six policy research internships, go to http://www.ppic.org/main/position.asp?i=3269.

PPIC offices are located in San Francisco and Sacramento, California. 

Openings at the Chicago Fed for B.S.

Associate Economist 

Immediate Opportunity at The Chicago Fed

Conducts statistical and economic analyses of macroeconomic, microeconomic and regional data, and provides research support for the economists.

FYI: Unpaid Internship at Dept of Justice

Unpaid Summer Economics Internships 

Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

The Economic Analysis Group in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has openings for two unpaid summer interns.

Welcome Chris Shannon

I am delighted to let you know that Chris Shannon, the Richard N. Merkin Professor of Economics and Mathematics, arrived a few weeks ago as the newest member of the social science faculty.  Her office, which is still being renovated, is 325 Baxter.

Professor Shannon was an undergraduate economics and mathematics major at Kansas and a graduate student at Stanford.  She comes to us from Berkeley, where she was an award-winning teacher and a distinguished researcher.   One of her Ph.D. students there was our own Professor Echenique.  She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Tilburg, Copenhagen, and Caltech, and she is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Her specialty, as you might guess from her title, is mathematical economics.  As a graduate student at Stanford, she opened the field known as "monotone comparative statics," which uses lattice-theoretic methods instead of calculus to sign the effects of changes in exogenous variables.  Lately she has worked on decision theory with incomplete preferences.  In the spring she will be teaching an advanced graduate seminar (SS 211c).

Lake Partners Consulting

Lake Partners, a boutique strategy consulting firm in downtown Seattle, have a full-time opening for an Analyst.  They  are interested in all majors, including Engineering, Communications, Neuroscience, and Political Science.  

Students with questions can address them to recruiting@lakepartners.com.

M.S. Program in "Analytics" at Northwestern U.

Launching in September 2012, the Master of Science in Analytics program prepares students to harness the full value of data, guiding organizational decision-making and innovation in the 21st century.

FWD: Paid Internships

We hope that you will assist us in spreading the word about The Washington Center's Summer 2012 Competitive Government Program on your campus. Selected students will intern for 10 weeks at offices within the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service, or another agency. Positions may be available in Washington, D.C. and several regional locations, and all participants will take part in academic programming provided by TWC.

Internship at DOT

Economist Internships

Volpe Center/US Department of Transportation

Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA

(US Citizenship required)

FWD: Job opening with DOT

We have exciting opportunities for entry/mid-level and experienced economists to join our Economic Analysis technical team at the Volpe National transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) in Kendall Square.

Internship at the Chicago Fed

The Chicago Fed's Economic Research Dept. will be hiring interns this summer.  The link below lists the job description:
http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/people/jobs/apply.cfm 
Interested students can apply online at www.chicagofed.org or use the link above. 

FWD: Last minute recruiting announcement

Acumen LLC is a rapidly expanding public policy consulting firm dedicated to improving health and social service programs. Our quantitative and qualitative analysis informs and directly impacts decisions made by the federal government on a range of policy issues, while our corporate environment provides potential for rapid growth and advancement for those with initiative and a desire to learn.

We are excited to attend Caltach career fair tomorrow, Wednesday, October 19^th, to recruit for entry-level and mid-career Quantitative Research Analysts and Research Analysts.  Students will have opportunities to interact with our recruiters and potentially set up future interviews.  Please forward this information to any student you feel may be interested in pursuing a career in policy analysis and consulting!

Career Fair Details

Date: Wednesday, October 19th

Time: 10:00am – 2:00pm

Location: Brown Gym

Students can find position descriptions and apply on our website at www.acumenllc.com.  Our representatives look forward to meeting the students from your department to further discuss the positions and what we do at Acumen.