Recent content by Amelie

Yes, trying to keep that in mind for cover letters especially! He just got his conditional green card last month, he can remove the conditions in 2 years. I'm not sure when he can become a citizen exactly, but it's pretty far away still. Government jobs can be an option in the future, though...

1) He hasn't had any official work experience, just an internship and a paid project he got through his school for an insurance company. Those were both done in Europe, though, so it doesn't help as much here in the USA except as a little experience (each lasted under 3 months). He really didn't...

He's done Matlab, Excel VBA, some SAS, R and SQL. We haven't looked at anything in the physicist/engineer area yet, so we'll check that out.EDIT: Just checked some of the companies you posted; a lot of them require US Citizenship (for security clearance or such), but he only has permanent...

Yeah, that's basically what we've been doing. We have a "big" resume with all of his skills and projects and trim it down to the relevant things for each job application. Also adjusting the summary at the top to fit the job posting as much as possible. Keeping folders is a good idea, right now...

Thanks! Definitely customizing each resume to every job (as much as possible). We may be able to go further with this, but don't want to twist things so much that it starts to become lying. I think the main problem is it's hard to translate the academic skills into what they want for each job...

Hi all, My husband has a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and we've been job searching for over 6 months now. Only gotten a couple of interviews and sent out hundreds of resumes. I feel like we're doing something wrong because I've always read/heard that people with this major should be...