Thursday, January 4, 2007

Open Field Job Rumors

49 comments:

Anonymous said...

Melbourne e-mailed their flyouts for all positions on Sunday (January 7).

Anonymous said...

Does that apply to their research fellow positions too?

Anonymous said...

Yes.

Anonymous said...

Did any one hear/have interview with Bocconi University?

Anonymous said...

any fly-outs from Iowa?

Anonymous said...

Fly Outs from Princeton!

http://econ.princeton.edu/seminars/Jr%20Recruiting%20Schedule.html

Anonymous said...

Recruitment seminar for LBS strategy (look st the bottom of the page):

http://www.london.edu/strategicandinternationalmanagement/seminars.html

Anonymous said...

job talks at wharton

http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/Calendar.htm

Anonymous said...

those wharton job talks seem to be by assistant professors and post-docs, not job market doctoral students,... at least when i googled some of the names, that's what i found

Anonymous said...

10:05 AM - some of them are job market doctoral students, some are assistant professors, some post-docs...why is this strange/problematic?

Anonymous said...

well i was surprised that assistant professors would be giving seminars titled "job talk," since usually the title "job talk" is reserved for students on the job market.

Anonymous said...

by the way, i just noticed the times in this post are in CST: does that mean the creator is in the CST?

Anonymous said...

I see, it's actually not strange: a post-doc or even an assistant professor might be applying for an opening just like a fresh PhD

Anonymous said...

Heard from UT El Paso?

Anonymous said...

8:33pm - the wiki says that someone has, but I can't confirm it.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone get flyout from U of

Guelgh?

Anonymous said...

Anyone heard back from UT-Austin?

Anonymous said...

to 11:58pm: no from Guelph

Anonymous said...

I have not heard from UT Austin. Then again, I didn't interview with them either.

Anonymous said...

UT Austin yes, today in the morning.

Anonymous said...

Anyone heard from Bocconi (Italy)?

Anonymous said...

to 4:58pm
which field are you in?

Anonymous said...

To 4:27

do you also interview U of Guelph?

Anonymous said...

yes

Anonymous said...

To 8:36

Thanks , so do you know if they

have already made a call for the flyout or not?

Anonymous said...

Does someone confirm UT EL Paso has already made the calls?
although Wiki shows one there

Anonymous said...

to 9:22
No, I didn't know other people interviewing with them. In my case, not yet.

Anonymous said...

The wiki distribution of flyouts appears to be a little distorted. For example, a close friend of mine at a top 5 school has a number of flyouts to top departments; his name is only occasionally mentioned on the wiki (for departments that have published their entire recruitment schedule). He has asked me not to gossip about him, so I haven't posted his flyouts. This suggests to me that the wiki is creating buzz, not necessarily for those who have a lot of flyouts, but for those are are a little, um, active in self-promotion. Just a thought.

Anonymous said...

To 6:05 pm
Some already started removing names from Wiki. Is that what you wanted? The more bitter comments here, the less information around.

Anonymous said...

I don't see the point of having the names. A simple Yes suffices. I had my name listed by someone else and did not like it at all.

Anonymous said...

I disagree: names are good. The best markets operate under perfect information... and it's interesting to see where our colleagues are going. Ideally everyone should put all of the fly-outs on the Wiki, name and date, e.g. (John Doe 2/29).

Anonymous said...

as economists we know that what's best for efficiency might not be best for the individual; hence the reluctance of some to keep their name outside the wiki; private info is often of great value ; I am surprised some economists on this board fail to see this

Anonymous said...

in the previous message, "keep their name outside the wiki" should be "put their name on the wiki" - sorry

Anonymous said...

As many employers are probably looking at the Wiki, I think it might be a good signalling strategy if you have a good flyout to put it on the Wiki. Every employer has a noisy signal, so employers want to use information from others' signals.

Of course, as a candidate can choose which flyouts to reveal, which makes the game more interesting. My guess it may not be optimal to not put your name anywhere; might it be optimal to put your name for everywhere you have a flyout?

Anonymous said...

I've posted it in the applied micro because they have been discussing names as well, but realized it belongs to this thread:

Re: names in wiki
I understand why people are not very excited about their names being posted; I
would/am not be/* excited as well. There are, however, good reasons for having names instead of just yes.
First, some schools do not call everyone at the same time. So, if you know there are only, say, three fly-outs to that school, you know there is still a chance. If there are six for one open position, well, it's over.
The second does not really give you much useful information, but: if one has had less interviews then one has expected, less flyouts then one has expected one is starting to think: "What is damn wrong with my paper?" and, well, gets in a gloomy mood. If one sees (and I know someone who does) that the market is not particularly friendly to her/his field this year and that one (exaggerating, of course) has to have few AER publications to get decent flyouts, well, it does not change an outcome of the job market, but would not trash this person that much...
Of course, there is no need to have names for that, only number and fields, but who would be doing this?

Anonymous said...

The real problem is that while there is a lot of benefit from finding others' names on the wiki, there is no benefit from revealing one's private information about oneself. Other than, of course, the pride factor, or a hope that faculty is reading it, and those that are yet undecided will use the wiki info. I am not sure that it works that way, though.

Anonymous said...

To " January 12, 2007 12:20 AM"
Yes, I can confirm that UTEP made calls.

Anonymous said...

anyone heard from Simon Fraser?

Anonymous said...

yes to Simon Fraser

Anonymous said...

I propose a new special topic: "Salary Rumors" or "Compensation package rumors". I know it's a topic some won't like to talk about but it might worth the shot.

I know there's a nice table in Cawley's paper but it may be interesting to see if the market is paying according to the expectations.

Also you can share successful negotiations strategies, etc. What do you think?

Anonymous said...

I agree with 2:24. would be nice to have such a section

Anonymous said...

anyone heard from Aarhus, Denmark?

Anonymous said...

Did anyone else interview with Auckland? Are they scheduling flyouts?

Anonymous said...

Aarhus called their fly-out about 2 weeks ago.

Anonymous said...

Anyone hear from Georgetown (Strategy)?

Anonymous said...

I flew out to Georgetown strategy

Anonymous said...

Georgetown Strategy is my dream job. Too bad I didn't even get an interview!

Good luck 8:12.

Anonymous said...

I just started a wiki page to compile detailed offer and compensation information: http://www.bluwiki.com/go/Econjobmarket_offers

If there are columns to add or subtract, feel free to edit it.

Tatonnement said...

This discussion has moved to the new message board.

It is a better system and you can still post anonymously.

So head to:

ECON JOB RUMOR BOARD