Matching supply with demand
in the Operations job market

Sign in (with Google, ORCID, or an e-mail address and password), open Post a job and fill in the form. Your posting appears on the site automatically, normally within an hour, and stays up for the rest of the job-market year. Posting is free.

Because the posting is tied to your account, you can come back at any time to correct it, extend the deadline, or withdraw it — from My postings in your personal area. Only the fields marked shown publicly ever appear on the site; your e-mail address is never published.

If you are applying to academic jobs in Operations this season, sign in and create your job-market profile — with your CV and research summary attached, your research areas, and the day(s) you present at INFORMS, so hiring committees can find your talk and attend it.

Profiles are collected continuously but revealed all at once on a set date each season, so no one gains from posting earlier or later. You can edit your profile, replace or remove its files, or take it down at any time; your contact address is shown only if you opt in.

Once a candidate has accepted a position, anyone with an account can report the placement: who, from which PhD program, joining which institution and as what. It appears in the Confirmed placements list at the next update, and the person who reported it can correct or withdraw it later.

This record is what lets the whole community see, season after season, how supply met demand.

Continuously. Postings, profiles and placements are submitted by the community and publish automatically, normally within the hour — there is no third-party service between a poster and the page any more.

The lists always show the job-market year under way. A market year runs from 1 July to 30 June and is numbered by the year it ends — so the 2026–2027 market began on 1 July 2026. Previous seasons stay in the archive.

Yes. Sign in and open E-mail alerts: you can be told about every new job posting, or only those matching filters you choose (institution, type, entry level, location…), and about changes to the site itself. You pick the frequency, and every message carries a one-click unsubscribe.

The site carries what the community posts, and after a decade that is most of the widely advertised academic openings in the field. But coverage ultimately depends on schools posting — so if your department’s opening is missing, post it (it takes a few minutes and is free), or send the link to the search committee chair.

No. Only the fields explicitly marked shown publicly on a form ever appear on the site. E-mail addresses are never published — a candidate’s contact address is shown only if they opt in. Accounts exist so that we know where a posting comes from and can reach its author, nothing more.

The details are in the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions, which you accept by using the site.

Share the site with your colleagues and students — the more of the community that posts, the better the market works for everyone. Post your department’s openings, your candidacy, and the placements you know of; fill in the annual survey; and tell us what to improve or vote on suggested features.

Everything here is free. If you want to say thanks, you can donate in books or buy me a book or a coffee.

This website is managed by Operations researchers in their free time, so please check whether your question is answered above first. Otherwise, write to konstantinos.stouras@ucd.ie or use the feedback page (you can attach screenshots there) — we will get back to you as soon as we can.