This document provides advice for seeking academic jobs after completing a PhD, including targeting the right institutions based on location and type, preparing application materials like dissertation, publications, and references, the importance of job talks and rehearsal, and noting that luck also plays a role. The key steps are to reflect on research and teaching fit; prepare a strong publication record, pipeline, and references; practice job talks; and collect information from career centers while recognizing chance factors.

1. Experience sharing: Seeking jobs
Yi Tang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

3. Where do you target
• Academia or industry?
• Research schools or teaching schools?
• Location?
– Environment, cultural, resources, …
– Family issue
– Re-location cost

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

5. 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

6. Is AOM interview necessary?

7. Collecting more information
• Publically (AOM career center)
• Privately
• Send inquiries directly

8. 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

9. Sometime, you need a dose of luck