October
October: Register for AEA and get ready for application
- Register for the AEA conference
- Make flight and hotel reservations.
- Choose a hotel closet to the Head-Quarters (HQ) hotel but NOT in the HQ hotel. (because HQ hotel has too many people!)
- Aim to arrive at AEAs for Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
- Make hotel arrangements immediately as rooms get booked really quick
- JOE: LOTS of openings
- Look specifically at openings in
- Within your field
- Any Fields: check with your network to see any insider information
- General Economics/Teaching
- Check for late October/early November deadlines. Most are mid or late November or December.
- Create an spread document to organize openings and their dead- lines. (share with your classmates!)
- Compile a list of schools you plan to apply Do NOT apply jobs not in your field or to places you would never go.
- This wastes your and others time and bad for your fellow class- mates.
- To aim too high or too low as other schools may know you are not making serious applications
– Run the list with your advisors.
- Get ready for your application material:
- Check information of the schools you want to apply (You will need need it to mention it in your cover letter.)
- Upload your website (with JMP, photo, CV, research/teaching state- ments)
- Complete your CV
- Polish your research and teaching statements.