European Labor Market for Economists. This is the name of the most prestigious forum for recruiting promising young people in the world economy; It is an event that brings together the best students with companies, universities and financial institutions and organizations, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the World Bank. . There are representatives from the state at the event held electronically this week. And four students from the University of Alicante (UA), Clemente Pinilla Torremocha, Álvaro Fernández Gallardo, Julián Gabriel Soriano Harris and Binur Yermukanova, were selected to participate in this forum due to their excellent academic records. Your desire? Start working at one of the powerful organizations competing for the most notable talent these days.
Briefly organized by the European Economic Association, the Royal Economic Society and the Spanish Economic Association. An annual meeting that allows the most outstanding Economics students from universities and business schools from all over the world to apply for an employment contract at one of the most internationally recognized economic organisations.. This is no easy goal, considering that around 9,500 students have registered for the event in the last twelve months, looking to receive one of nearly a thousand offers from different organisations.
On this occasion, The selected UA students are doctoral students from the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis, Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences.. To participate, they met selection criteria that required completing their doctorate in the current academic year and producing a paper, known as a “labor market paper”, on some topic linked to their doctoral thesis.
Candidates were also required to submit a report to the forum organization that included their CV, essay, and three letters of recommendation from professors who approved the research each had conducted. From here, Different companies, universities or organizations will be responsible for selecting profiles and conducting online interviews with job applicants..
If selected for some of the positions on offer, they will attend a personal meeting in the first months of 2024, where candidates will have to present their research themselves. Once this process is completed, the requesting organizations will be the ones to contact the students who best suit their needs.
David Jiménez Gómez, the person responsible for coordinating the participation of students in UA’s Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis, recalls nearly a decade of presence at the forum: It has been possible for students of the University of Alicante to access positions of high responsibility in private organizations and national and international public organizations. such as University College London, the University of Barcelona or the European Commission’s Jonit Research Centre.
In fact, UA’s Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis has achieved 100% employability of students participating in previous editions. As David Jiménez emphasizes, «This event is a golden opportunity for our students and it also reflects the high level of the UA Faculty of Economics in terms of education and external projection, as this recruitment data confirms.
expectations
So what are the students’ expectations? Julián Gabriel Soriano does not hesitate to point out: «It is an honor to be part of such a high-level department. You also have the opportunity to participate in this forum attended by students from all over the world.
In his case, he specialized in Monetary Economics and Macropotential Politics; He explains that this field has gained importance since the 2008 crisis, when central banks, which until then had focused on inflation studies, also turned to analyzing financial analysis. risks of preventing such new episodes.
This is why your dream is to attend this event. I started working in the research department of a central bankor at an academic institution that will allow him to teach.
«All of us attending the forum know that we are faced with a significant opportunity.. “Instead of making job applications from institution to institution, we now have the privilege of turning to offers concentrated in a single pool approved by institutions and organizations of undoubted international reputation,” he says.
Regarding the other selected UA students, Álvaro Fernández specialized in the same field as Julián Gabriel Soriano, while Clemente Pinilla specialized in Applied Macroeconomics, Economic Types and Inflation. Binur Yermukanova recently achieved this in his book Industrial Organization and Macroeconomic Theory.