Monday, December 18, 2006

SPECIAL TOPIC: How many applications? How many interviews?

So how many applications did you send out, and how many interviews do you have so far?

60 comments:

Anonymous said...

80 apps, 10 interviews

Anonymous said...

128 apps / 12 interviews

Anonymous said...

84 apps, 10 interviews

Anonymous said...

how about dividing this in 2 categories?
100 academic applications 10 intervies
5 non academic applications 1 interview

Anonymous said...

84 academic, 9 interviews

6 nonacademic, 2 interviews

0 private sector, 0 interviews

Anonymous said...

150 academic apps--> 14 interviews
15 non-academic apps--> 3 interviews

Anonymous said...

150 academic, 15 interviews,
50 non-academic, 0 interview.
BTW, I am non-resident alien......

Anonymous said...

why don't you guys distinguish between :

academic

private or public research institutions (e.g. RAND, FED, IMF)

non-research private (consulting, etc)

Anonymous said...

112 academic aps -> 37 interview offers

from the top 5 to the top 500

(US citizen)

Anonymous said...

academic:

50 apps / 10 interviews

private sector 9 interviews in Chicago, couple more interviews to take place in NYC

Anonymous said...

50 apps, 20 interviews, all academic.

Anonymous said...

85 apps, 16 interviews

Anonymous said...

50 apps/ zero (yet):(

Anonymous said...

120 applications

25 accepted
20 declined

Anonymous said...

50 non-academic applications

25 interviews

Anonymous said...

26 (at business schools) and only 4 so far (but they're still coming in).

Anonymous said...

62 apps (all academic), 9 interviews so far.

I'm interested in the breakdown by gender. In my experience women get more first-round interviews. So if you care to share your gender in the posting...

I'm male (but honestly not bitter).

Anonymous said...

what are usually the interview:job offer ratio? Like 10:1? better or worse? (can you separate academic and private sector?)

Anonymous said...

150 applications, 21 interviews
i think it might be useful to indicate your phd program rankings... my phd program is ranked between 30-40.

Anonymous said...

105 aps, 17 i-views so far.

Specs: Male foreigner from a mid-ranked (~40) dept.

Oh, how they wooed me into the market with the "rule of one third" (90 aps: 30 iviews: 10 flyouts: 3 offers: 1 job).
I wish!

Anonymous said...

120 academic apps, 16 interviews

(department ranked 40-50)

Anonymous said...

75 apps (academia)
37 interview
12 declined

department ranked (1-10)

Anonymous said...

My program ranks bw 30-40.
I applied around 60 schools, all research schools with PhD program.
I only got 3 school interviews so far.

Anonymous said...

is it just an bias in the sampling or are people just lying? i was in the market last year and the average was 150-180. of course, that's excluding the americans, j1 visas and so on. i had 220 apps --> 40 interview offers --> 13 flyouts --> 6 offers --> one job. hope this helps.

Anonymous said...

150-180??? At my department they say to apply to around 70 and that seems standard. What is the 180th ranked school, I wonder?

Anonymous said...

I sent out 60 applications. my program ranked 20-30, I was ranked 3rd among ~20 ph.d. candidates this year. Ref. letters was sent our late (december 4th), got no interview from academia yet. some from research places and private sectors. Feel pretty bad now. wth!

Anonymous said...

Many people have asked for universities below the 180th place in the following ranking:

http://www.econphd.net/rank/rallec.htm

I am from a top 10 department and since I was in my first year I hear that you must send more than 150 applications

Anonymous said...

Female American.
Department Rank >100.

Academic 84 apps. 6 interviews

Private 1 app 1 interview and offer.

Public 0 apps, 2 interviews

Anonymous said...

School ranking - 50-100

80 academic applications
10 government applications
5 private industry applications

Academic interviews: 9
Private interviews: 1

Anonymous said...

"Ref. letters was sent our late (december 4th), got no interview from academia yet."

Get you advisor to make a call or email for you. Sending out late applications like that can be fatal.

Anonymous said...

any early flyouts?

Anonymous said...

53 applications.

15 interviews.

2 interviews were from places i didn't apply to. >.>

got another 2 nonacademic interviews in chicago too.

anyone heard from chicago yet? I know quite a few top candidates and no-one has heard from chicago.

Anonymous said...

Could you please explain how you got interviews from places you didnt apply to? And which places were these, if you dont mind?

Anonymous said...

i'm not going to say which schools they were. but i believe top schools "market" their students to other schools to some extent, and sometimes that is seen as an application, even if we don't actually apply.

Anonymous said...

9:03Pm

>>Get you advisor to make a call or email for you. Sending out late applications like that can be fatal.

how bad is it if all three letters don't get to your schools on time? some of my letters went out even later (12/8) as my advisor just cannot organize herself. But I got 3 interviews before that. I asked my advisor to place a call, but no way of checking if she has done that. No interview offers since 12/5.

24 academic 3 interviews
4 non-academic research 1 interview

My stats:
department is top 10~25. have a tenure track job at a state-college-of-never-heard-of in the middel of nowhere. want to move to either Coast.

non-US citizen, permanent resident, male, field: applied micro

Anonymous said...

180 academic applications / 19 interviews so far, one flyout, one offer

20 other applications / 4 interviews (private sector and policy)

top 10-20 econ department

Anonymous said...

yes, i know people who were called by chicago by now.

Anonymous said...

I sent approx 130 when I was on the market got about 10. Now that I'm on the other side, it is clearly a pain in the arse to weed through 140 apps for approx 20 interview slots. I'm at a "top tier" undergrad regional school. You PHD students in programs outside the top 30 should realize your unlikely to get a job at a PHD school so why bother? Besides a good undergrad institution is better than a 150th ranked PhD program isn't it? The best advice I can give you is to realize most phd academic economists are teachers first. I think the median number of pubs for a phd in econ is 0. Sell your ability to communicate economics to the hiring committee, whether it be for teaching or research.

Anonymous said...

just out of curiosity, how can people already have had an academic flyout AND offer at this stage? thanks

Anonymous said...

i am one of them.

Anonymous said...

i know someone who got an interview with chicago gsb.
anyone got an interview with chicago econ?

Anonymous said...

Has anyone heard from UCLA?

Anonymous said...

You guys are posting in the wrong section. UCLA Anderson Policy called last week. So did Econ.

Anonymous said...

for the lucky guy who already has an offer: is it academic? what's the university ranking? your own phd program's ranking? thanks

Anonymous said...

I would encourage everyone to update the wiki at

http://www.bluwiki.com/go/Econjobmarket

It looks like the best way to aggregate all of the information on interviews.

At first glance, updating the information may seem difficult, but it's actually pretty easy.

Anonymous said...

I think the median number of pubs for a phd in econ is 0.

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With math skills like that there is little wonder why you didn't land a job at a PhD department.

Anonymous said...

Relevant to the current discussion:

http://student.ulb.ac.be/~tcoupe/surv.pdf

Estimates that only 60% of PhDs ever publish.

So 8:59 isn't far off. The median may well be 1 or less. This is supported on p9 of the paper which estimates that only 41.5% publish one whole article (co-authorship counts for less than one).

Interesting little article.

Anonymous said...

Is there anybody from a European PhD program here? Did you get any interview for the AEA meetings in Chicago?

Anonymous said...

i am stil wondering if chicago is going to give me an interview. i know they are interested in my field, but they haven't called. wtf is up?? i know a lot of top candidates and no-one has heard from chicago. there is also no mention of chicago interviews on the wikipedia site. what's going on??? call me dammit!!!

Anonymous said...

I know people who have interviews at Chicago Econ, GSB, and Harris.

Anonymous said...

Advanced assistant: 10/3.

First year on market: 200/40/15/3.

PhD from top 10 program.

Anonymous said...

20/120 Academic
3/12 Research Institutes

F1 Visa
Male
Department ranked between 25-35

Anonymous said...

Answer for:
"December 19, 2006 11:34 AM"

I am in a top 10 department. The offer I have is from a top 150 department.

Anonymous said...

27 applications (all academic), 2 interviews

Anonymous said...

9:43 - why so few applications sent out? Just curious.

Anonymous said...

Buyer's side: 250 applicants for 2 tenure-track jobs. Will interview approximately 50 candidates. Will fly back up to 6.

Anonymous said...

6:41 - can you state the approximate ranking of your department?

Anonymous said...

Demand side: First-tier national liberal arts college. 200 applicants for one tenure-track job. We will interview 20 and fly in 3 to 5.

Anonymous said...

Demand side: Top business School. Around 250 applications for one position (in AM/IO). Interviewing 21. Will possibly fly back 6-7.

Anonymous said...

Top liberal arts school. 400 apps for 2 positions. probably 6 flybacks.