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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
How to Switch from Academia to Industry
This article was featured in the INOMICS Handbook 2017, a new career guide for Economists. Download it here.
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- Academic Job Search
- Posted 6 years ago
How To Get An Academic Job After Finishing Your PhD: A Mini Guide To Academic Job Search
This article was featured in the INOMICS Handbook 2017, a new career guide for Economists. Download it here.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 6 years ago
Tips for conference organizers: How to invite top speakers to your conference
When you're organising a conference, you know that you want the top speakers from your field to attend. But how can you maximise the chances that they will accept your invitation? Give plenty of notice
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
How to arrange appointments during conferences
As well as being opportunities to meet new people, to network, and to hear about the latest research in your field, conferences are attended by people from all around the world. If you need to arrange a meeting with a researcher who is based in another country, then conferences are good locations to use as you'll both be in the same place at the same time. What sort of meetings might you arrange during conferences? We'll discuss this in today's article.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
Should I attend conferences outside of my field?
There are hundreds of conferences held all over the world on all sorts of different topics. You probably know which the big conferences in your field are, and maybe you've attended them in the past. But if you work in an interdisciplinary setting, or if your work has crossover with another field, you might be wondering â should I attend conferences outside of my field? Today, we'll discuss the pros and cons of this, and at the end we'll share some tips for how to prepare for a conference when you're new to the field. Pros of attending conferences outside of your field:
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- Inside INOMICS
- Posted 6 years ago
Experience an Improved INOMICS
This summer we are happy to introduce a faster and improved INOMICS to our users and customers. Over the last few months, we have worked hard to improve our design towards building a faster website and a friendly UI that helps our users and customers make the most of INOMICS. Please find below the latest updates coming to INOMICS this summer:
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- Customer Testimonials
- Posted 6 years ago
The Role of INOMICS and Conference Monkey in the Success of esd Conferences
Since our inception in 1998, our mission has been to help students, researchers and academics advance in their careers while at the same time, helping institutions to improve their profiles, reputations and, recruit the best candidates for their offers. As part of our actions to fulfil our mission, we have initiated cooperative partnerships with universities, research centres and conference organizers with the aim of promoting research and knowledge exchange at the highest level.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
7 Presentation Tools That Engage Students More Than Slideshows
College students complain about a lot of thingsâlack of sleep, dining hall food, and finals week, to name a few. As a professor, it isn't your job to address complaints about life outside the classroom. But if students take issue with your teaching style, it's time to listen up. One of their biggest gripes in the classroom: slideshows.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
How to manage your time during conferences
Conferences can be great career boosters and good fun to attend, but they can also be chaotic, rushed, and rather intimidating. If you are someone who struggles with time management, you may find the conference days difficult to navigate. To help with this, try these tips on managing you time during conferences:
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- Blog Post
- Posted 6 years ago
5 types of people you will meet at conferences
Ahh, conferences: the best chance to see the many diverse characters of academia in one room. And yet, you always seem to bump into the same sorts of people at these events. If you've attended a conference, you've surely met each of these people:
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- Blog Post
- Posted 6 years ago
4 Business Card Mistakes That Ruin Networking Opportunities
Most of us have a story about a first date that seemed to go well, yet the person never called us back. It's often a guessing game trying to figure out what you did wrong. Did you talk too much? Get food stuck in your teeth? Have bad breath? It's an uncomfortable experienceâand it isn't isolated to romantic relationships. Every researcher has met a potential collaborator or client at a conference, presented them with a business card⊠and never heard from them again. If your networking connections are ghosting you, it's easy to get stuck wondering what's wrong.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
When should I start attending conferences?
When you are working as an academic, attending conferences is an important part of your job. Attending a conference allows you to present your work to the academic community, to hear about the latest research by others in your field, and to network with fellow researchers to help expand your knowledge and promote your career.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
4 Reasons a Conference Binder Makes an Unforgettable Presentation
Your research is finished, and you can't wait to present your latest discovery at an upcoming conference. Unfortunately, organizing your findings has been a nightmare. It's tough deciding how to best present a project to people who know little about itâespecially when you know every single angle.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
What To Expect And How To Prepare For The Assessment Centre - A Guide For Economists
When you are applying for jobs as a graduate economist, as part of the application process you may be asked to attend an assessment centre. Assessment centres are a tool commonly used in recruitment for government jobs or for joining large companies with extensive graduate recruitment schemes. Typically, you will be invited to attend such a centre after a preliminary interview and before a final decision is made.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 6 years ago
5 biggest struggles when applying for conferences
Ahh, conferences. They can be deeply informative and a lot of fun â but they can be a headache too! One point of pain in attending conferences is the application stage, where you send off an abstract of your work together with information about yourself and hope to be allotted a poster presentation or a coveted talk. If you're applying for conferences and finding this to be a stressful experience, don't worry, you're not alone! Here are five of the biggest struggles that academics face when applying for conferences.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 6 years ago
Meet the Winner of the ESD Conference Invitation
Conference Monkey is proud to introduce the winner of the ESD Conference Invitation. Conference Monkey invited one lucky participant to our partner conference, Economics and Social Development Conference, which took place in Prague. Meet Elmira Mirguseinova from Lithuania. 1. Could you introduce your academic background?
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- Study Abroad Article
- Posted 6 years ago
Everything You Need To Know About Summer Schools in the Czech Republic
Photo Credit: From the Archive of the Summer School of Slavonic Studies, PalackyÌ University, Olomouc
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- Ranking
- Posted 6 years ago
5 Best Cities for Conferences
Trying to choose a conference? Not sure where to go? Here are our tips for five of the best cities in which to attend a conference.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 7 years ago
What to Do With Your Economics Degree: Career Paths for An Economist
What kind of jobs can you get with an economics degree? Today we're considering five possible careers for economics graduates and the pros and cons of each.
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- Study Abroad Article
- Posted 7 years ago
How to Study Abroad in Asia and Save Money?
So you want to make your dreams finally come true, and take off to somewhere in Asia to study abroad for one semester. Many people think that studying abroad is expensive, and that only students with wealthy parents can afford a semester abroad, but thatâs not true at all! You can study in Asia and actually save money compared to studying at your home university. In this article our partners at Asia Exchange, one of the worldâs leading companies organizing student exchange to Asian countries, take a look on ways to make your semester abroad more affordable.
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