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