QMSS Professional Development Series: Winter 2025

Are you curious about what kind of jobs and opportunities are available to you after graduation equipped with and related to skills from QMSS courses & our minor? Join us for a virtual QMSS Alumni Panel event to learn more!!

Our panelists are recent QMSS minor graduates from a wide range of undergraduate majors and representing early career opportunities in various sectors. Our confirmed panelists include:

• 2 Econ/QMSS alumni - one working at BlackRock as an Aladdin Client Business Analyst (New York, NY) and one working at Bloomberg as a Fixed Income Specialist (New York, NY)
• A Psychology/QMSS alum working at Mercer as a Senior Strategy Analyst, Global Products (Chicago, IL)
• A Sport Management/QMSS alum working with the Minnesota Vikings as a Digital Marketing & Media Associate (Minneapolis, MN)
• A Psychology/QMSS alum finishing up a Master's degree in Health Informatics at U-M (Ann Arbor, MI)
• A Biology/QMSS alum working at U-M's Institute for Social Research as a Research Associate (Ann Arbor, MI)
• A Political Science/QMSS alum working at Main Street America as an Associate Research Analyst (Chicago, IL)
• A BCN/QMSS alum working at Epic as a Technical Solutions Engineer (Verona, WI)
• A Public Policy/QMSS alum working at Deloitte as a Government and Public Services Consultant (Rosslyn, VA)

During the event, one of our QMSS Peer Mentors will moderate questions for the panelists tailored towards what their application, recruitment, and hiring process was like, what their day-to-day tasks are in their new jobs, what skills and tools they are using or building on from U-M and QMSS coursework, what they've learned about their respective industries, and where they hope their career takes them into the future. Afterwards, we will have breakout room opportunities to more personally connect with individual panelists and ask them the nitty gritty questions that have been on your mind.

Hopefully, you will learn more about various data-related career paths and opportunities available to you as a QMSS graduate and get answers to the questions you've been dying to ask in a low-risk setting! This is a great event for students in any year and at any stage in the job hunting process.

Open to all students!

Join the Quantitative Methods in the Social Science (QMSS) Program for a resume-building workshop with a special focus on highlighting & marketing your data-related skills from QMSS (and other!) courses. 

In the first half of the workshop, students will receive a rundown of general advice on how to structure a resume, how a resume is different from a curriculum vitae (CV), and some dos and dont's and tips and tricks for using them in applications. Then, we will dive deeper into specific advice for how to market data and analytical skills taught in QMSS courses including QMSS 201, 301, and 451 and how to supplement previous and current work/related experiences with data-related points. 

In the second half of the workshop, students will work in real-time on their own resumes to edit their skills and experience sections based on the workshop's content and ask questions one-on-one with the presenter about their specific resume, experiences, and/or goals.

Following the workshop, participants will have an opportunity to send their resume in and receive written feedback from the presenter and/or senior QMSS Peer Mentors as well as make one-on-one appointments with the presenter or QMSS Peer Mentors to discuss further.

Students are encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet to take notes, work on (or create!) your current resume, and/or ask specific questions during the workshop. You may also bring a printed version of your current resume to take notes and ask questions if you prefer.

Open to all students!