Month: December 2015

‘Tis the season for giving and many people will turn to food banks, some for their subsistence and others as an outlet for their charity, so I wanted to share (very quickly and without much commentary or analysis, given time constraints) two noteworthy items about food banks.

The first is an article from Montreal daily La Presse (in French, but easily translated with Google Translate), in which Paul Taylor, the director of a food bank in one of Canada’s poorest areas, makes the claim that food banks just don’t work:

(Edit: My household’s dependency ratio having gone from zero to 0.33 overnight two weeks ago, in my sleep-deprived state, I had initially titled this post “Sitting on the Supply Side …,” when I truly meant “Sitting on the Demand Side ….” Apologies for the confusion.)

Jessica Hoel comments on my last post, in which I gave my usual advice to job-market candidates interviewing at ASSA:

Any advice for first-timers on the other side of the table this year?

Having sat on the demand side for the last two ASSAs, I think I can offer at least some general thoughts. A lot of those thoughts are similar to my advice to job-market candidates, but here goes nevertheless:

(Note: Too many things are keeping me busy and away from blogging these days, and it is job-market season. As such, I thought this would be a good time to post part 2 of my advice to job-market candidates from a few years ago one more time.)

It’s that time of the year again, when graduate students who are about to enter their final year in economics and related disciplines are getting ready to go on the job market.

Going on the job market is a harrowing experience for most people, however, so I thought I should help job-market candidates by sharing my advice.

This post is the second in a series of three. Today, I’d like to discuss what it’s like to interview at the annual meetings, and how you should prepare for it. The next installment will cover on-campus interviews.