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- Posted 9 years ago
From Poli Sci to Policy â Jobs For Political Science Graduates
With September upon us and campuses around the globe preparing for the coming school year, many recent graduates face a harsh reminder that student life is over and itâs time to plunge headlong into the workforce. Yet, sometimes landing that first career-oriented position can be tough, particularly in todayâs economic climate.
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- Posted 9 years ago
How to Create an Infographic for Academic Purposes: Tools & Resources
A picture speaks a thousand words, an adage that also holds true when presenting data to an audience. Whether to stand out during an academic conference or a class presentation, to share statistics with your customers, to explain a difficult concept to your students or to impress your friends with something funny: if you want to convey the message quickly and clearly an infographic is the tool to use!
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- Posted 9 years ago
Top Conferences in Banking, Economics and Finance - Fall 2014
Although those of us in the northern hemisphere have just entered the dog days of summer, fall is just around the corner, meaning itâs the right time to start planning out your autumn conference schedule. Whether youâre dreaming of the changing leaves and crisp air or dreading the idea of darker evenings and cooler days, right now you should focus on choosing the right event for you from this great list of academic conferences taking place around the world.
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- Posted 9 years ago
How to Make the Most of a Post Doc or Junior Researcher Position
For many recent PhDs and other doctoral graduates, the first step in an academic career is at least one, if not two or three post doc or junior researcher positions. Regardless of which department you work in, such a position is a great way to make connections, publish your research, add experience to your CV and get a feel for life as an academic.
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- Posted 9 years ago
Online Courses for Professional Development or Continuing Education
Many people who are already years or decades into their careers find themselves wanting to build upon their skillsets and expand their professional qualifications. Perhaps they want to make a career change, feel stuck in a mid-level position but lack the qualifications necessary for advancement, or perhaps they are just interested in gaining new knowledge but donât have the time or means to head back to school. In the past, people in such situations could enroll in evening or weekend courses at community centers or continuing education departments at local universities.
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- Posted 9 years ago
Conferences in Finance: 15 Events in Summer 2014
Last year, we offered you a list of 10 finance conferences worth attending in 2013. Now, with summer just around the corner and conference season already underway, we want to make sure you know which conferences to register for ASAP and which to have on your radar for the coming months. With finance such a hot topic across the world right now, weâve expanded our list to 15, while limiting the time frame to the summer months. Towards the end of the summer weâll post another list for fall and winter conferences.
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- Posted 9 years ago
Popular Fields in Economics â Which Conference Topics are Most Relevant?
With the release of the Spanish report this week in the worldwide series of INOMICS Job Market Reports, more information has been added to the wealth of data regarding the interests and experiences of economists across the globe.
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- Posted 9 years ago
Econometrics Conferences 2014
Econometrics is a thorough discipline that demands time and effort to be mastered. For many people who want to pursue a degree in economics it serves as an obstacle, but as weâve shown before, there are many resources you can use to your advantage to become proficient in it: blogs and podcasts can introduce you to the topic and give practical advice, free online courses will incentivize you to learn systematically and increase your ability to perform a research using different econometrics and statistical software like âRâ or âStataâ, and YouTube channels can greatly support your studies by giving access to lectures and tutorials of great professors at any time convenient for you.
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- Posted 9 years ago
Academic Interview Tips
Pursuing an academic career is very different from working in the private sector in many ways, including in terms of the application and recruitment process, even before you start in your first job!
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- Posted 9 years ago
Statistics & Data Analysis: Free Online Courses
Anyone working as an economist, mathematician, management consultant or researcher is likely to be dealing with numbers on a regular basis. Whether to refute claims, inform decisions or to build evidence to support oneâs case, a good command of figures is essential for many professions. In other words, one cannot escape learning and using statistics!
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 10 years ago
How to Teach Economics
Teaching, whether at school or university level, is generally and rightly considered a worthy occupation. As supported by some Professor Ratings, however, unfortunately not every high school, college or university can boast perfect ratings for their academic staff, and many individual lecturers and professors have room for improvement, at least in the views of the students.
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- Posted 10 years ago
Top Conferences in Business Economics 2013
Business Economics is a rather broad area of economics covering everything from business organization, management and marketing to the role of entrepreneurs and impact of the government on corporations. It is also assumed to be one of the most applicable research branches within economics: where todayâs academic research might result in tomorrowâs industry implementations.
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- Posted 10 years ago
Academic Jobs in Finance
Finance has become a very attractive field for many people in the last decades as it âsmellsâ of money and promises a successful career after obtaining a degree, even though the financial crisis has slowed down this popularity trend. While many fresh Bachelor and Master graduates massively apply for positions in investment banks and consultancies, some decide to pursue a PhD, which is the way to life-long involvement in the academic world.
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- Posted 10 years ago
Internships in Economics â Lessons from an Economist!
Whether pursuing a bachelorâs degree in economics or having finished a PhD from a top university, at all stages of the academic pursuits and research careers, young economists have been engaged in the grueling process of finding internships with reputable organizations. While masters and bachelors students aim to gather work experience and transition into full time jobs, PhD candidates attempt to combine their research with the work of relevant organizations.
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- Posted 10 years ago
Introduction to Econometrics
Econometrics is something towards which many people have mixed feelings: both fear and respect. If you want to get a degree in economics, however, there is no way you can get away without studying econometrics on some level; and if you want to become a great economist you will have to master it: to build models, run regressions and (hopefully) predict the future. The economics profession has been blamed for failing to predict the global financial crisis, but as econometrics is considered to be one of the core disciplines to help prevent a recurrence in the future, we have collected a number of useful links for online learning and self-improvement in this field.
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- Posted 10 years ago
Conferences & Prizes for Young Economists
After our post last summer about the trend for conferences and prizes aimed at young economists, several further events are coming up this year, which could be of interest to PhD students and young researchers. Some of these are specifically for students or junior academics whilst others offer financial support or prizes to those attending or presenting papers at the meeting.
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- Posted 10 years ago
Top Finance Conferences 2013
In todayâs global world, the transfer of information is crucial to success. Since the start of the recession in 2008 financial issues have increasingly been among the hottest discussion topics around the world â in particular the balancing of books and budgets, whether in supranational financial unions like the EU, individual countries, businesses or households. From the academic perspective, there is still much to be explored in the world of finance.
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- Posted 10 years ago
Economics Conferences in China, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand 2013
Following our earlier post from November about Economics Conferences in 2013, we have now published a (chronological) list of Conferences in Economics and Statistics taking place in the Asia-Pacific Region. If you know of other interesting, economics-related events in the region, please share these with us in the comments at the end of this post.
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- Posted 11 years ago
Education 2.0: Teaching Economics Using Digital Tools
Considering the remarkable technological progress and the spread of social media in the last few years, it can be challenging to teach and involve students when using an old-fashioned lecture style. Shelving overhead projectors and boring PowerPoint slides, some professors have converted to âeducation 2.0â, integrating new tools and applications into their class format.
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- Posted 11 years ago
To Open Access or Not?
âOpen Accessâ has been a bit of a buzzword in academic circles over the last couple of years. Its rise to popularity has come from a combination of factors including the increased price to access academic journals, as well as increased access to the internet, which has had the effect of speeding up the rate at which information travels.
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- Posted 11 years ago
Textbooks versus E-Books
A few weeks ago I came across an interview on TechCrunch with Brian Kibby, the president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education, discussing his positive outlook on the future of e-books, e-content and generally the future of what he calls âsuper adaptive learning.â Contrary to what one might expect from a textbook publisher, Kibby explains in the interview that he expects to see a significant increase in the adoption of e-materials within the next year and full adoption within three years. Optimistic?
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- Posted 11 years ago
The Power of Statistics
Just two days ago Time magazine released a list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Among other prominent figures included in the list is Hans Rosling, a doctor and statistician, who became famous after his âTED talkâ in 2006. In the video released by BBC four years later, Hans Rosling presented statistical data about 200 years of world development in the most creative and clear way the world had ever seen. The video got over 5 000 000 views on You Tube. A complicated subject, feared among generations of students, was transformed into a mind-blowing show. This video will show you how.
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- Posted 11 years ago
Unemployment & Salaries: Your Major Matters
Unemployment For College Majors
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- Posted 11 years ago
Supply and Demand for New Ph.D.s in Economics
Source: Survey of the labor market for new PH.D. hires in economics 2011 â 12, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas:
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- Posted 11 years ago
Top Economics Conferences 2012
Conferences have been a pillar of academic thought in the western world for almost a century. Organizations including the American Economic Association (AEA) (organized in 1885, incorporated in 1923), the Royal Economic Society (RES) (incorporated in 1902, although their journal The Economic Journal dates back to 1891), the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) (1922) and the International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) (1973) have lead the way with their annual meetings that draw anywhere from a couple hundred to over 10,000 annual visitors; and these are only the tip of the iceberg.
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