Dear junior member of the Verein für Socialpolitik,

The Verein is delighted to offer a two-day job market preparation seminar for up to eight PhD students. The seminar will take place during the VfS Annual Conference (12-13 September, 2022) at the Basel University.

The workshop provides training for candidates going to this year’s job market for fresh economics PhDs. It is organized by Rüdiger Bachmann (University of Notre Dame), Paul Heidhues (Düsseldorf University, DICE), Amelie Schiprowski (Bonn University), and Christian Bayer (Bonn University).

Since the number of slots is limited, applicants need to be reduced members of the VfS and submit a CV and a potential job market paper. The workshop organizers will select candidates based on this material.

If you are interested, please submit your application by July 31, 2022 to karolin.normann@socialpolitik.org.
Please use as the email’s subject “Application Junior Job Market Workshop“.
Successful applicants will be informed soon after the deadline.

Below you will find a summary of the details of the workshop.

We are looking forward to see your application!

Kind regards,
Christian Bayer (on behalf of the workshop organizers)

Content:

• Presentation on the international job market
• Three-minute spiel on the job market paper
• Mock interviews
• Presentation of the job market paper

Goals:

• Raising awareness with PhD students that the presentation and proper communication of research is ever more important for a career in academia.
• Teaching of the often informal rules and scripts that govern the international and domestic academic job market.
Feedback from experienced senior researchers.
• PhD students need to learn to prove themselves outside the comfort zone of their own departments.

Target Group:


• Advanced PhD students who are thinking about going on the international job market.
• Advanced PhD students with a more German focus who want to improve their communication and presentation skills.