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My background: Public Economics PhD 2010 earned in Atlanta, GA; 3 years
visiting AP experience at a US university and 3 years AP experience at a
Chinese University in Wuhan. Publications based on ABDC ranking: 2 A +3 B
within 7 years
Job Market Report, 07/27/2016-05/21/2017
I left Wuhan, China and came to San Francisco, USA on July 18th 2016 and
started my job seeking since last July. Regularly I do my application once a
week, usually on weekends at several major online job boards
Totally I have done about 482 applications and the majority of them are
targeting at US universities/colleges, which mostly are teaching-research-
combination institutions and some of them are purely teaching schools. Only
a few applications are for community colleges, research companies and
businesses like UBER, FACEBOOK and so on.
I have received 10 phone interviews and 9 video interviews (by Skype, Zoom,
and others)
For the last two community colleges, in fact I withdrew my applications and
canceled their interview invitations since I don't think I have been ready
to pursue a position at a community college yet.
And then, in early March I have received one onsite interview only from
California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA. I have two competitors:
one is middle-aged lady with solid teaching experience and the other is
fresh PhD graduate guy from University of Southern California. I believe
that I have done a good job on paper presentation and talks with the search
committee. At that time, when I had a conversation with the search committee
chair (also department chair), he said that I'm over-qualified and even
encouraged me to negotiate salary with the Dean. However, their selection
indicates that sometimes a too good evaluation could be a bad signal. I
guess they have chosen that fresh PhD graduate from University of Southern
California because that guy is Hispanic, which meets the need of California
State University, Dominguez Hills, where more than 60% students are non-
traditional Hispanic ones. In addition, the chair is an alumni of University
of Southern California. Anyway, it's failure again!
Although someone has said that: "Academic job hunting is all about timing
and availability which often has little to do with one's academic
performance", I still need to summarize my weaknesses as follows:
1) Spoken English is still a barrier;
2) Lack of top journal publications, at least one A* paper by ABDC ranking;
3) Lack of single authorship publications;
4) Lack of tenure track career in US, Canada, UK or other western nations;
5) Lack of extensive teaching experiences, particularly in the fields of
Finance, Financial Economics, International Economics, Labor Economics,
Health Economics, Environmental Economics, Econometrics and Statistics.
These subfields are much more popular than Public Economics;
6) Not to be well-prepared to answer many behavioral questions such as what'
s your typical pride during your teaching, any example?
7) Some nervous during phone interviews;
Other causations could include technical issues like weak wifi or slow speed
home internet. The remaining could be bad luck!
Overall, my job seeking for eight months this time is a failure. I have to
go back to China again and don't want my negative emotion and mood of being
jobless at home to influence my daughter.
visiting AP experience at a US university and 3 years AP experience at a
Chinese University in Wuhan. Publications based on ABDC ranking: 2 A +3 B
within 7 years
Job Market Report, 07/27/2016-05/21/2017
I left Wuhan, China and came to San Francisco, USA on July 18th 2016 and
started my job seeking since last July. Regularly I do my application once a
week, usually on weekends at several major online job boards
Totally I have done about 482 applications and the majority of them are
targeting at US universities/colleges, which mostly are teaching-research-
combination institutions and some of them are purely teaching schools. Only
a few applications are for community colleges, research companies and
businesses like UBER, FACEBOOK and so on.
I have received 10 phone interviews and 9 video interviews (by Skype, Zoom,
and others)
For the last two community colleges, in fact I withdrew my applications and
canceled their interview invitations since I don't think I have been ready
to pursue a position at a community college yet.
And then, in early March I have received one onsite interview only from
California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA. I have two competitors:
one is middle-aged lady with solid teaching experience and the other is
fresh PhD graduate guy from University of Southern California. I believe
that I have done a good job on paper presentation and talks with the search
committee. At that time, when I had a conversation with the search committee
chair (also department chair), he said that I'm over-qualified and even
encouraged me to negotiate salary with the Dean. However, their selection
indicates that sometimes a too good evaluation could be a bad signal. I
guess they have chosen that fresh PhD graduate from University of Southern
California because that guy is Hispanic, which meets the need of California
State University, Dominguez Hills, where more than 60% students are non-
traditional Hispanic ones. In addition, the chair is an alumni of University
of Southern California. Anyway, it's failure again!
Although someone has said that: "Academic job hunting is all about timing
and availability which often has little to do with one's academic
performance", I still need to summarize my weaknesses as follows:
1) Spoken English is still a barrier;
2) Lack of top journal publications, at least one A* paper by ABDC ranking;
3) Lack of single authorship publications;
4) Lack of tenure track career in US, Canada, UK or other western nations;
5) Lack of extensive teaching experiences, particularly in the fields of
Finance, Financial Economics, International Economics, Labor Economics,
Health Economics, Environmental Economics, Econometrics and Statistics.
These subfields are much more popular than Public Economics;
6) Not to be well-prepared to answer many behavioral questions such as what'
s your typical pride during your teaching, any example?
7) Some nervous during phone interviews;
Other causations could include technical issues like weak wifi or slow speed
home internet. The remaining could be bad luck!
Overall, my job seeking for eight months this time is a failure. I have to
go back to China again and don't want my negative emotion and mood of being
jobless at home to influence my daughter.