The Annual Job Market Survey
Have you recently gone through the job market search for an academic job in Operations — broadly defined, so Operations Research, Management Science, Industrial Engineering and Analytics included? This anonymous survey sets out to understand the profiles of the people our field newly hires. It can be answered either by candidates or on behalf of a hiring committee.
It takes about 15 minutes. Read the informed consent statement before you begin.
Why we run it
We sincerely hope this effort proves useful to future PhD candidates and to the business schools and universities that hire them — giving both sides real insight into the market from people who have already been through it.
At a broader level, we share the view that showing real data from our job market helps shape the borders and the definition of our interdisciplinary field, reveals the research trends running through it, and helps attract the best — and the right — candidates into our PhD programmes.
Before you start
There are answers to the questions people ask most, including how anonymity is protected, and a posting about this survey on the INFORMS Connect forum by Professor Serguei Netessine. Slides with the results so far are public.
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Fifteen minutes that make the next market clearer
Answers are anonymous, aggregated, and never published in a form that could identify you.