{"id":697,"date":"2018-10-01T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/arc\/blog\/blog\/accounting-rookie-alert-how-pitch-your-job-market-paper\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T06:09:07","slug":"accounting-rookie-alert-how-pitch-your-job-market-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/arc\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/accounting-rookie-alert-how-pitch-your-job-market-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"***ACCOUNTING ROOKIE ALERT*** How to Pitch your Job Market Paper!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its great to know that there are ever increasing opportunities like the EAA Talent Workshop<\/a> for accounting rookies to get themselves known to potential employers. Close to home for me, Downunder, we have the fledgling AFAANZ Rookie Camp<\/a> on 22-23 November, 2018.<\/p>\n

So, if you are an accounting rookie what is my advice about \u201cselling\u201d your job market paper?<\/p>\n

My first<\/strong> simple message is \u2013 don\u2019t think that the brilliance<\/strong> of your job market paper will sell itself<\/strong>! Maybe it will, or maybe (and most likely) it won\u2019t!<\/p>\n

My second<\/strong> message is: (lack of) TIME<\/strong> is your biggest enemy! The Recruiters have limited time to look at all the material on offer \u2013 and they have very limited time to look at your job market paper. You need to be able to \u201chook\u201d them in 5-10 minutes<\/strong> \u2013 then you can \u201cbuy\u201d yourself more of their time. Your abstract and Introduction will be a big target \u2013 but oftentimes our inability to convey clear thoughts in writing, mean that these parts of our paper will \u2026 NOT do the job. One reason is that we all write in different ways: we give different elements different written emphasis and it is easy to omit something in our writing, because we know it \u201ctoo well\u201d in our heads. So, with such variety of writing styles on offer, even reading through a relatively short (\u201cfree form\u201d) Introduction section, can be a frustrating \u201csearch\u201d exercise for the university recruiter.<\/p>\n

So, my THIRD<\/strong> and main message is: why not offer up an \u201cexecutive summary\u201d of your paper \u2013 like a logical, structured extended abstract<\/a><\/strong> that captures all the things one might want to know about your job market paper? Maximum 1,000 words<\/strong>, that an expert in the field can read and understand in 10 minutes! JOB DONE!<\/p>\n

OH, but I can here you say \u201c\u2026 gee, thanks for the great advice, but what structure do you have in mind exactly? AND, what are the essential elements that will comprehensively \u201csell\u201d my job market paper to an academic expert? If you can tell me that secret, then it would be a real<\/strong> help! \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

WELL:<\/strong> for the first time last year, in its 2017 Talent Workshop, EAA<\/a> trialled a new initiative that offered such a structured framework – to help improve the communication of the key messages of job market papers to the recruiters: the “job market paper pitch<\/a>“. This was a voluntary exercise. Workshop invitees were asked to aim for a pitch <\/a>that is a maximum of 1,000 words \u2013 following the motto, “less is more”. Using the pitching research<\/a> framework it was even better: \u201cstructured less is even more<\/strong>\u201d. You can even watch a 9-minute YouTube video animation<\/a> that explains the “reverse engineering” pitching research<\/a> method:<\/p>\n