Econjobmarket advice

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Economics Job Market Wiki - A collection of random advice

On this page, past job market participants can share advice. Likely, there will be disagreements about what advice is better. Feel free to offer advice that contradicts other advice, but please give a brief case for why you prefer one suggestion over another.

Before the job market starts

• In the summer, set up a workgroup with the other graduate students who will go on the job market
• Advice for making a nice vitae
• Advice for making a nice cover letter
• Advice for making a statement of teaching philosophy
• Advice for making a job market website

JOE

• Come up with a system for entering the jobs in JOE into Excel, which will make it easier to use mail merge

Sending out applications

• Apply everywhere
  • Marginal cost of sending out application is the time it takes to customize a cover letter (<5 minutes)
  • Think broadly about how your work fits into other fields
  • In the first round, let the hiring departments determine if you'd be a good fit

Waiting for AEA interviews

• Any advisor who gives a damn will offer to make phone calls to schools in which you are particularly interested

Preparing for the AEA conference

At the AEA meetings

Waiting for flyouts

Preparing for flyouts

Flyouts

Post-flyout waiting game

Negotiating

• Although most chairs want to negotiate over the phone or email, everyone else tells you to start negotiating only once you have received a paper contract