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Experience sharing: Seeking jobs

Yi TangHong Kong Polytechnic University

Where do you target

• Academia or industry?• Research schools or teaching schools?• Location?– Environment, cultural, resources, …– Family issue– Re-location cost

Preparing your package

• Ask yourself whether you are ready• Dissertation topic/proposal• Job market paper• Publications• Pipelines– R&R– High-quality working papers

Securing your references

• Your committee members• Your co-authors• Your professors who have a good impression

of you• Do your references have any connection with

your targeted schools

Is AOM interview necessary?

Collecting more information

• Publically (AOM career center)• Privately• Send inquiries directly

Preparing job talks

• Choose your Job market paper• Rehearsal in your own department is useful• Treat like a normal research seminar– Be professional– Be confident– Be polite– Be responsive

Sometime, you need a dose of luck

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