Dear Stevens, Thank you for inviting me to come and give the APS Career Mentoring Fellow Talk today. It was an absolutely wonderful time. I look forward to continuing to work closely. Invite me back anytime.

I have given this talk at Adelphi (in some form), Hofstra, and Ithaca College. Each of these schools are PUIs (Primarily Undergraduate Institutions) and most/all of the students I talked to are undergraduates. So I developed a hybrid talk that uses the APS – CMF recommended talk with other information for undergrads (such as how to write a resume). However Stevens (and next month UConn) also have PhD students, so I decided to give the full canned APS – CMF talk. This talk focuses heavily on telling students that there are other career choices other than being a professor (literally, in the same breathe I promoted our open faculty position, HAHA). The road to getting a tenure-track faculty position is difficult, long, and competitive and there are other amazing jobs out there, for people with the physicist’s toolkit.

Special thanks to Crystal Bailey and Midhat Farooq for being together some awesome slides. I love this slide:

It really shows how rapidly people evaporate from higher education into jobs in industry.

Questions I couldn’t answer:

• In slides such as, “How many Bachelor’s are there?” Does that include Applied Physics?
• Is there a break down of international vs. national student breakdown on career choice, etc? That would be helpful.