Since August 2023 I have been serving as the Graduate Program Director of the Economics Department at the Alvarez School of Business. Before that, and since January 2017, I was the MA academic placement director for the Masters of Arts (MA) program in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Through those capacities I have been working with MA students individually, identifying the main barrier(s) to Ph.D. admission in their current profile and suggesting practical and achievable improvements that enhance their skills and application prospects. Please see my CV here, for student placement records.
I am available for consulting on the setup and management of the academic placement of undergraduate, Master's, Predoc, and central bank placement programs.
I am offering free-access videos below, with the hope of reaching interested students, especially those who face additional barriers to accessing this type of information.
Please follow the links below to find mentoring videos on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/natassazervou/) or youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs82wBJXA-SI1XJSOsSAOWQ/videos)
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Series 2: 2021-22 PhD applicants series:
last days craziness: advice for students with no offers, multiple offers, or one offer: video
how to decide among multiple offers: video
interviews & campus visits: video
mentoring after submitting applications: intro: video
application strategy & application package updates: video
choosing schools to apply to, more: video
choosing schools to apply to: video
communicating with letter writers: video
academic CV: video
statement of purpose: video
reference letters, more: video
reference letters: video
substitutability among application material: video
writing sample, more: video
writing sample: video
predocs & RAs: video
quant background: video
what to work on right now: video
application package overview: video
how to approach this series: video
Series 1: 2020 PhD applicants series: