Job
Market Advice
Here
is a timetable
(adapted from Harvard) about the Job market timing.
A
quick overview over the big steps:
By
mid/end April:
Have idea + some initial results + put together a complete committee (you will
need three faculty members.)
By mid
June:
Have rough first draft of the paper
During the
summer:
Stay on campus, work hard on substance, present paper over and
over
to other job candidates, meet regularly with
advisor.
By mid
August:
Have most results, a good draft of the paper
By early
October:
Type up a CV, collect teaching ratings on courses you taught
or TAed for
(if they were good and you are applying to schools that care about them, like
business schools or liberal arts colleges.) Put together a
website.
By mid
October:
Stop producing results, focus on writing a great intro. Buy an
outfit.
Early/Mid
November:
Send out application packages and send
signals
Here
are the minutes from the Mid
September Meeting.
Templates
Creating
your CV: Template, An example from last
year.
Creating
your Website: Here is a template/example.
Note,
on the right, you want to put your picture: What is a good picture? Check out
e.g. my job market picture.
A
general rule: If the picture contains: sports equipment / alcohol it is probably
not a professional-looking picture (at least try to fake it, if it’s not natural
for you, turns out, people won’t notice…)
Templates for cover letters: Econ
department, Business
School, and in
response
to a request
Here
is a collection of Advice
Writing
tips for Ph.D. students by John
Cochrane
Tips on how to
prevent disaster in presentations that
Monika Piazzesi wrote a couple of years
ago.
Tips by
Matthias Doepke, Andrea Eisfeldt, Enric Fernandez, Ed Vytlacil, and Sisbel Yelten
Tips
by Laibson and Goldin
Harvard: FAQ1, FAQ2, FAQ3, FAQ4
The Ten
Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper by Goldin and
Katz
Tips by
Peter Illiev
