Non-academic market

The non-academic market, both government and industry, is a major source of jobs for candidates. Unfortunately, I don't know a lot about it, and I don't want to give advice I am not confident with. So I am making this post, and hoping that people who do will pass on tips in the comments section.

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  1. I think discussion about industry needs to be split further as there are two classes of industry jobs. Jobs which are at places looking for economics Ph.Ds and then jobs which are looking for people with graduate level econometrics training. The former group actually hire through the AEA and includes things like Transfer Pricing, Litigation Consulting, Amazon Etc.

    The second group may not hire through the AEA and is often indifferent to whether or not economics Ph.D., M.A. or someone with a strong statistics background. These include many positions at Commercial Banks. In my opinion these are something that candidates should explore only if they are unable to find job through the traditional job market. Generally these jobs are found through just conducting a normal job search and independent of institutions created by the economics discipline.

    I wanted to point out this distinction, because Departments often list both types of jobs as industry placements, when finding the second type of job is usually hte result of conducting a traditional job seearch rather than the structured process that is the AEA.

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