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For questions about careers and jobs in mathematics (inside and outside academia)

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Publication in proceedings

Proceedings of conferences are often published as special issues of "classical" journals. But even those that are not are usually included in MathSciNet if they include a statement (often a footnote o …
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Research topics restricted to students at top universities?

Another consideration that your adviser might have had in mind is that the experts in area B might be slow to publish or even to write up their work, so that the literature doesn't reflect the state o …
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Shortlists and job offers

I would think that having it known that you're short-listed at some places would help rather than harm your chances at other places. If some department ignored your application because they failed to …
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Does your dissertation matter for industry research jobs?

I know several people who got jobs in industry, doing work entirely unrelated to the topic of their Ph.D. theses (and to anything else they learned as students). The people who hired them seemed to h …
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Can breadth hurt a job candidate?

When my department (mathematics) tries to hire or promote someone with publications in selective computer science conferences (like FOCS), we explicitly point out in the file (which goes first to our …