This is my personal history about finding a job after my PhD. It could serve as a reference on times, opportunities, and expectations. I use it to keep opportunities in mind. Opinions about cities and countries are recompilation of honest advice I got: they are neither my personal opinion nor the truth.

The major organization is by country, because it is an easy-to-remember feature.

Australia

  • They follow the global academic job market with most positions been released in September every year.
  • The tenure track professorship is usually very short (2 years), so they expect candidates to have the full suite of experience.
  • Prestigious universities are the “group of 8”
  • About cities:
    • Mellbourne
      • Simply good.
    • Sydney
      • Very spread, lot of commuting
    • Brisbane
      • Not too pricey, nice, and simple
    • Perth
      • New, young and self-sufficient city.
    • Adelaide
      • People who want to retire go here. Usually, people are resilient to meet outsiders.
    • Canberra
      • Artificial city designated the capital, has no coast and there is little life outside work,

Opportunities:

  • https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/671627/lecturer-in-mathematics-probability-and-stochastic-processes

For postdocs, one should look into the awarded grants (October, November) and contact the professors directly as soon as possible (to show genuine interest), even before they open a position. For research: ARC Discovery. For research and applications (usually include a postdoc position): ARC Linkage.

In my case, a keyword to use is the field of “computational mathematics”, “operations research”, “algorithmic game theory”.

People with profiles similar to mine, but more advanced in their career are:

Netherlands

  • Maastricht university
    • Lot of teaching

USA

France

  • INSEAD Business school, decision science area
    • https://www.insead.edu/faculty-research/academic-areas/decision-sciences

United Kingdom

  • LSE fellowship at the department of Mathematics
    • Reduced teaching
    • 2 years fixed term