  A pilot survey was sent to chairs of 14 doctoral math departments asking for
three types of data: (1) category on job-placements for research post-docs
leaving their department in three recent years; (2) category of jobs from which
their new faculty hires came in two recent years and two years a decade
earlier; and (3) preparation for future careers offered by their department to
their research post-docs. Eleven departments submitted data on post-docs. Of
the 162 departing post-docs for whom data was supplied, 25% obtained
tenure-track jobs in doctoral departments; 22% took another post-doc; and 18%
were reported as "unknown/other". The remaining 35% were evenly divided among
tenure-track in non-doctoral departments, full-time non-tenure-track, academic
outside the US, and business-industry-government. Eight departments gave
complete responses to (2): From the early 2000's to the early 2010's tenure
track hiring increased by about 35% (from 18 to 25). The changes across this
period as strikingly larger for other ranks: 233%(from 21 to 70) for research
post-docs and 211% (from 18 to 56)full-time non-tenure-track doctoral teaching
faculty. In section (3), all departments reported observing post-docs' teaching
and providing feedback. However, relatively few provided explicit preparation
for teaching or guidance for communicating with audiences other than research
specialists.
