April: JOB MARKET MINI CONFERENCE and kick-off placement meeting (IMPORTANT: participation in the job market mini conference is mandatory to quality for department funding for the job market)
Early June: DEADLINE to give preliminary notice of intent to be on the job market.
End of August:
PLACEMENT MEETING; all students planning to be on the Job Market must attend this meeting. Students interested in learning more about the placement process are also welcome to attend.
Book slot in internal seminar
Mid September:
DEADLINE to send email to Placement director, cc-ing supervisor, that student has discussed market with the committee and they think the student is ready for the market
Register for AEA Meetings, CEEE Meeting, European Job Market Meeting, APPAM Meeting, NABE Meeting
End September:
Complete CV, Website, teaching statement, research statement, draft of JMP, JMP slides
Ask reference letters: talk to your committee
October:
Check AEA JOE/Econjobmarket.org/other platforms for applications that close early
Post nice draft of JMP, send me CV and abstracts, get application materials ready
Submit applications before closing dates (see detailed handout on application process here and Excel sheet here)
November:
Practice your short interview spiels and your job market talk together with other students, practice often!
10 minutes elevator speech by all students in internal seminar
Canadian schools will contact you for CEEEs
30 minutes mock interviews with me and other faculty
Send out signals from AEA
Job Market Conferences: NABE and APPAM
December
Schools will contact you for AEAs
CEEEs, European Job Market Meeting, December 14-15, 2020
January -- April
AEAs
Campus invitations
Job Market Scramble
JOB!
Chris Blattman has a lot of great advice on all kinds of topics
Advice by Claudia Steinwedder (in particular on how to get interviews)
See also advice from our students here
How to write a good job market paper
The Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper (Goldin/Katz)
Four steps to write an applied micro paper (Jesse Shapiro)
How to write an intro (Keith Head)
Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students (Cochrane, 2005)
How to prepare your CV
See also advice in these slides
Template for your CV
How to prepare slides for a talk or discussion and give presentations
How to Give an Applied Micro Talk (Jesse Shapiro)
Public Speaking for Academic Economists (Rachel Meager)
How to Give a Great Seminar (Alex Tabarrok)
How to Make Academic Presentations (Berthold Herrendorf)
The Discussant's Art -- How to give discussions (Chris Blattman)
Tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations (Monika Piazzesi)
How to be a Great Conference Participants (Art Carden)
Research Statement:
This should outline what you have done, and what you plan to do in next, why it is important, and how it all fits together. Have your adviser and colleagues read this and comment. Revise fourteen times before submitting.
Some examples: Pascaline Dupas, James Choi, Alex Gelber, Oleg Itskhoki, Neale Mahoney
Teaching Statement:
See also general advice in these slides
Some examples: Ying Fan, Margaux Luflade