A Seller's (& Buyer's) Guide to the Job Market for Beginning Academic Economists

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Carson ◽  
Peter Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Faculty Advisor ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Academic Job Market ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations

In an effort to increase the stock of information available to sellers and buyers in the academic job market for beginning Ph.D. economists, this paper presents the findings of a survey of the 1985-86 hiring process by economics departments. The findings are based on a stratified random sample of all economics departments ranked in the top 20, and 380 other economics departments. Sellers in this job market, typically graduate students in the final stages of their doctoral dissertations, will find answers to questions like: Will a phone call from a candidate or faculty advisor increase the probability of securing a job interview? How many weeks before the AEA meetings are requests for interviews sent out? How long does a typical job interview last and what criteria are applied? How soon after the meetings interview is a candidate likely to be invited to give a seminar at a school? Are elements of the job offer such as salary, teaching load, and summer research money negotiable? How long does a candidate have to accept or reject an offer? The benefits of these survey results will not, however, be limited to sellers.

Strategy and Etiquette for Graduate Students Entering the Academic Job Market

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Shively ◽  
Richard Woodward ◽  
Denise Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Academic Job Market

scholarly journals Filling the Gap

2015 ◽  
pp. 67-85
Author(s):  
Sigrid Anderson Cordell ◽  
Alexa L. Pearce ◽  
Melissa Gomis ◽  
Justin Joque
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Job Skills ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Academic Job Market ◽  
The University

Graduate students in the humanities increasingly view training in the use of digital tools and methodologies as critical to their success. Graduate students' interest in becoming familiar with digital tools often accompanies their awareness of a competitive academic job market, coupled with a recognition that teaching and research positions increasingly call for experience and skills in the Digital Humanities (DH). Likewise, recent debates over DH's role in the future of humanities scholarship have heightened the sense that DH skills can translate to crucial job skills. While many graduate students receive encouragement from faculty to pursue digital scholarship, individual academic departments often have limited resources to prioritize the development of these skills at the expense of existing curricular components. This chapter looks at initiatives at the University of Michigan Library that demonstrate the ways in which subject librarians, in collaboration with data and technology specialist librarians, can fill this gap by creating opportunities for graduate students to develop DH skills.

scholarly journals A survey-based analysis of the academic job market

eLife ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D Fernandes ◽  
Sarvenaz Sarabipour ◽  
Christopher T Smith ◽  
Natalie M Niemi ◽  
Nafisa M Jadavji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Market ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
Job Offers ◽  
Faculty Positions ◽  
Academic Job Market ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Postdoctoral Researchers ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Many postdoctoral researchers apply for faculty positions knowing relatively little about the hiring process or what is needed to secure a job offer. To address this lack of knowledge about the hiring process we conducted a survey of applicants for faculty positions: the survey ran between May 2018 and May 2019, and received 317 responses. We analyzed the responses to explore the interplay between various scholarly metrics and hiring outcomes. We concluded that, above a certain threshold, the benchmarks traditionally used to measure research success – including funding, number of publications or journals published in – were unable to completely differentiate applicants with and without job offers. Respondents also reported that the hiring process was unnecessarily stressful, time-consuming, and lacking in feedback, irrespective of outcome. Our findings suggest that there is considerable scope to improve the transparency of the hiring process.

Preparing for Jobs Outside the Academy

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Brad Stoddard
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Academic Job Market ◽  
Freelance Work

At the 2019 meeting of the AAR in San Diego, Dr. Brad Stoddard led a workshop that encouraged graduate students to look outside academia for potential jobs. As the academic job market tightens, many qualified people are left scrambling for careers in theirfield of study. As Stoddard suggests in his workshop, the answer may lie in pursuing work outside the field of academia. Following Kelly Baker’s example, Stoddard showcases how much work is available through a portfolio career, offering advice on reinventing oneself academically, obtaining freelance work, and finding employment in non-profits that likely will fulfill one’s intellectual hopes and dreams.

The Job Market in the Academy

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Russell T. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Academic Job Market

At a recent workshop during the 2019 meeting of the AAR in San Diego, California, Dr. Russell McCutcheon offered valuable advice to graduate students seeking employment after graduation. As the job market, particularly the academic job market, tightens, it has become increasingly difficult for any to find a job in the specialty their dissertation prepared them for. The solution McCutcheon suggested is rooted from his experience with the field itself: reinvention. His workshop on writing CVs illustrated the need in this changing market for graduate students to be able to describe the skills they have obtained in a way that makes their interests applicable to a wide range of jobs in the field rather than limiting themselves to a niche specialty that may limit potential jobs.

The crisis of academic labour and the myth of autonomy: Dispatch from the job wars

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell T. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Academic Job Market

Beginning with the author's own experiences, this article examines the plight of graduate students in the current academic job market. After surveying such fields as literary criticism and culture studies for engaged responses to the pressures facing North American graduate students and non-tenure track instructors in the humanities and social sciences, the author indicts colleagues in the study of religion for the manner in which their general preoccupation with describing and interpreting things eternal and immaterial has allowed them to remain aloof from the real-life conditions of the academy in general and their graduate students in particular.

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