Navigating the Accounting Academic Job Market and Related Advice
Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations
ISBN: 978-1-78560-767-7, eISBN: 978-1-78560-766-0
Publication date: 11 January 2016
Abstract
Purpose
To disseminate helpful advice to current and future candidates about the accounting academic job market.
Methodology/approach
Literature review, interviews with recently hired faculty members, insights from the author’s experiences as both job candidates and search committee members, and discussions with colleagues.
Findings
In this chapter, we discuss the current state of the job market for accounting professors and offer our insights as well as those from a group of recent graduates. It is our recent experience that many rookie candidates pursue initial faculty positions with an incomplete understanding of many aspects of the market, including how the market clears, job expectations, and other issues that we believe are important. While others have adequately addressed the importance of research in the profession and alluded to some aspects of the market, we provide additional useful information about the market and other career aspects in order to assist new graduates in their quests to find fulfilling appointments. Our chapter complements existing literature to form an updated and more complete picture of the market and profession.
Practical implications
This chapter helps prepare candidates for the job market by providing information and advice that complements advice given in Ph.D. programs and the existing literature.
Social implications
Candidates entering the job market will better understand the nuances of the market and can make more informed decisions about the institutions that best meet their needs.
Originality/value
The chapter provides important practical advice for job seekers about the accounting academic job market not available elsewhere.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
We thank Jannet Vreeland, Brian Williams, and Shan Wang for their helpful comments and suggestions. Special thanks to Kurt Gardner at the American Accounting Association for helpful discussion, and Andrew Jenkins for his research assistance.
Citation
Bergner, J.M., Filzen, J.J. and Wong, J.A. (2016), "Navigating the Accounting Academic Job Market and Related Advice", Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations (Advances in Accounting Education, Vol. 18), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 147-176. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1085-462220160000018006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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