RESOURCES AND GUIDES

THREE THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT STATISTICIANS

1. Statisticians have been around for thousands of years. In Ancient Egypt censuses of population and, more importantly, cattle (the annual cattle count was one of the two main means of evaluating the amount of taxes to be levied, it was a very important economic event) were carried out each year by what would now be called Statisticians who were considered to be very important officials. 
2. Statisticians are needed in all kinds of industries and statistics is one of the fastest growing fields offering a huge number of options for careers. You could most likely work in any field that interests you. Google, for example, uses statistics to determine which websites appear whenever you search and Amazon uses statistics to determine what products you might like and advertises them to you.
3. A Statistician's work can provide solutions to huge world problems like hunger in developing countries to curing diseases, or calculating mood boggling statistics like how many burgers McDonalds sell per second or how many kilograms of rubbish we produce each year (you can find more examples like this here and here).

CAREERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Not sure what a career in Psychology is all about but intrigued by the idea? There are lots of fields of Psychology worth exploring and we’ve researched some of them.

JOB SPOTLIGHT - HOW TO BECOME AN ACTUARY

Actuaries analyse a wide variety of data (including mathematical, statistical, demographic, economic, and more) in order to minimise risk when it comes to financial decision making. They can work in-house providing advice for a business, or advise individual private clients on financial decisions.

If you love maths and stats, are a great problem-solver, and want a job that can provide fantastic opportunities and remuneration, becoming an Actuary could be perfect for you.