General comments
Should we regard physics as the “liberal arts”of science?
Would that help or hinder our students’s employability?
Who Employs your
physics graduates?
Existing surveys:
Australian graduate destination survey; incomplete,
self-selection bias
UK IoP survey- excellent, very complete.
University Alumni associations, particularly Go8
Need to use Networking
ADFA@UNSW knows where all their graduates go b/c military. (Most
ADFA go into engineering.)
Safety
Sensing/Sensor networks
Big Data
Marketing (Loreal example-numbers specialist on marketing
team)
Scientific instrument sales
Consulting
Business Analyst in local government
UNSW open day pamphlet- “Our graduates get jobs in the
following industries….”
Animation/game design
Big Data (e.g. traffic analysis)
2008 UQ Graduate destination survey
Complete cohorts more useful than all cohorts
Use linkedIn/social media to stalk
BoM/ABS, Teaching
What do you tell
parents at open Day?
“I’m not aware of any unemployed graduates in physics.
Blinkers may apply”
Would you ‘Let”your children do physics?
Anything modelling- especuially ability to switch between different
models e.g. at different elngthscales.
Knowing that there may be more than one contributing factor-
so not thinking the problem will be solved by just one thing.
Doomsday scenario- you’re
sacked. How get a job?
Do a gred cert in editingà
publishing job
Management consulting X2 (BCG)
Go off-grid and live on savings
Train Driver
Safety (Radiation, Laser)
Start a business in
the secondary school sector (particularly regional) consulting/ontracting to
schools, e.g. professional development, motivation. (X3)
Write textbooks (although poor royalties)
Write worksheets (Teachers Pay Teachers)
Create web presence: Physics Girl, Venitsium
Masters of Actuaryship
Secondary school teaching X2
TAFE teaching
Editing/rewriting thesis/research articles
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David Hoxley
Lecturer
Department of Chemistry and
Physics
La Trobe University
