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Be engaged.
Participate in student organizations, industry meetings, civic events, community service, study abroad programs or other non-profit organizations. They all provide different forms of experience and all experiences count. You will learn about working with people, work in groups, be part of an organization and have the opportunity to practice leadership which are all important skills…
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Get experience.
A paid internship is of course your number one choice. It is the best way to gain hands-on work experience in a professional setting. It can also lead to a job offer or just serve as a way to explore possible careers with little commitment. Internships are hard to find and very competitive (every student…
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Work on your math skills.
The best paying job positions involve data analysis and knowing your way through numbers is an important skill to dominate. Many positions also require the ability to frame problems and find solutions quantitatively so paying attention to the mathematical exercises studied in economics and how to solve problems is an important part of your training.…
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Econometrics Beat
Dave Giles wrote Econometric Beat, a self-proclaimed “resource for econometrics students & practitioners”. A retired Professor Emeritus from the University of Victoria, Canada, Giles conducted research into both econometrics and applied statistics. He wrote this blog even into his retirement up until 2019. He has left it up, so that students and practitioners of econometrics can…
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Econlib
The Library of Economics and Liberty, or Econlib for short, is simultaneously a blog, a podcast, and a place for students and researchers to learn more about specific aspects of economics. Alongside its regular articles and essays, it sells editions of economic classics, posts videos of economists, has lists and definitions of economics terms, and provides…
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New Economic Perspectives
Another blog with multiple writers, New Economic Perspectives offers economic analyses from several highly qualified economists, legal scholars and financial market practitioners. Following the 2008 Financial Crisis, the bloggers wanted to weigh in on global economics and “provide an accurate description of the cause(s) of the current meltdown as well as some fresh ideas about…
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Econbrowser
Econbrowser is written by James D. Hamilton, Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and Menzie Chinn, Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Its aim is to analyze current economics and policy – as simple as that. Posts come frequently, often as regularly as every day.
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Naked Capitalism
Naked Capitalism is contributed to by several different authors, all of whom have credentials writing and studying economics. Naked Capitalism began in 2006 as a response to what the founders thought was the “obvious underreporting in the US of the severity and extent of the underpricing of risk in all credit instruments”. It is critical…
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Conversable Economist
Timothy Taylor is the conversable economist, but he’s also an author of several books and the managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. His blog focuses mainly on economics, but occasionally touches on other topics such as universities and students, and also history.