“You’re good at math—you should become an engineer.” How many times have you heard this from well-meaning teachers or family members? For many people, this conjures an image of a traditional engineer designing rockets, bridges, or other physical systems. While many engineering students thrive designing and building physical products and structures, others realize they’d prefer to apply their quantitative skills to solving more abstract or digital problems.
Your strong analytical skills, logical reasoning, and ability to systematically break down complex problems equip you to work across a wide range of fields and industries. Finance and software engineering may be your “first thought,” but other career options exist that may align with your strengths, interests, and goals.
Dive into Vault Guides
Below are Vault Guides featuring career paths and industries you may not have previously considered.
Vault’s Industry Guides provide insight into an industry’s history, outlook, and strategies for entering the field. Job Guides explore specific roles in greater detail, including employment trends, educational requirements, and day-to-day responsibilities.
Be sure to log-in with your Cornell credentials for full access, free.
Industry Guides
Job Guides
- Artificial Intelligence Specialists
- Economics Jobs
- Information Technology Jobs
- Information Technology Consulting Jobs
- Internet Security and Services Jobs
- Mathematics and Physics Jobs
- Market Research Jobs
- Operations and Logistics Jobs
- Shipping Jobs
- Social Media Jobs
Vault includes many other guides that may spark your curiosity, including analytical roles in the energy, biotechnology, sports, and entertainment industries.
In addition, Vault offers an Intern Resource Center, a career advice blog, interviews with professionals, and company and internship rankings.
Keep a Pulse on Real Time Trends
Want even more info about employment trends, earnings, common job titles, and career outlook? Use real time Labor Market Insights (LMI) by Lightcast to learn more. Lightcast integrates official government labor statistics with real time data from job postings and other sources to generate up-to-date employment reports.
- First select your industry of interest. Note that “Information Technology” and “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math” are separate categories.
- Next, select the occupation.
- Then pick “Nationwide” for U.S.-wide data or choose a particular state for regional labor market insights.
Check Out Cornellians’ Next Moves
Curious where graduates go after completing their degrees? Each year, Cornell Career Services surveys students about their plans. You can see where new grads are working and studying in the Student Career Outcomes Dashboard.
As always, talk with a career coach about your discoveries or when you feel stuck. Wherever your career exploration takes you, may your success be exponential. (Yes, that was a math joke).
