Neil Morgan- Applying for Jobs

So, you wanna job?

Neil A. Morgan Indiana University

Winter Marketing Educators’ Conference 2014 Orlando, February 2014

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• Where to apply?

• How to apply?

• What are they looking for?

• What are you looking for?

• Overall observations

Applying for Jobs

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• Not everywhere

• Be realistic

• Plus aspirational and back-up

• Don’t limit yourself geographically

• The world is flattening

•  “Bucketize” your targets

Where to Apply?

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• Networking via your faculty

• CV

How to Apply?

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•  Take this seriously

• Not a business card, but not a novel

• Go find three examples of what good “looks like” (and maybe “bad” for comparison)

• Education, Research and Pubs

•  Teaching experience, ratings, interests

• Past work experience

• One or two lines on extra curricular

CV

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• Networking via your faculty

• CV

• Cover letter

How to Apply?

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• Go back to your buckets (prioritize, you can’t send the same thing to everyone)

For high priority targets:

Ø Personalize (to school, not individual)

Ø Why you are interested in them

Ø Why they should be interested in you

Ø External perspectives on both the above questions?

Cover

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• Networking via your faculty

• CV

• Cover letter

• Maybe working paper

How to Apply?

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• Evidence of ability to do high quality research

•  Indicators of ability to teach

• Some way to calibrate potential “Fit”

• Evidence/RTB you are serious in your interest in the school

What are “they” looking for ?

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• First job, not last

• Fit

• Collegiality

• What can I learn there that will make me more valuable if I wanted to leave?

• Can I publish my way out?

What are you looking for ?

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•  It’s a hugely inefficient, wildly random, matchmaking process…

• …in which you usually don’t have much choice in who responds to your personal ad

• But (don’t ask me why) it somehow usually ends up working out for the vast majority

Overall Observations