This is an ‘Annual Symposium on Job and Career Perspectives for Students in the Computational Sciences’, in which we are inviting five people from the industry to give us an insight into their careers, describe the state of the art technology and computational tools they use in the industry today and how they achieved success in their fields. These speakers will describe the computational work they did in graduate school and how they searched for jobs after it. They will discuss their transition from academia and provide a firsthand account of the computational R&D landscape. This symposium will encourage and inspire students working in computational groups from different departments at UB and will improve their job perspectives.