Tips for PhD Students
Here's a collection of tips relating to thesis writing and the job market.

Job market paper

• The Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper , by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, Harvard University.
  
  

Job market and economics/finance in general

• A Guide and Advice for Economists on the US junior academic job market, by John Crawley, Cornell University
  
  
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Market, by Eric Zwick
  
  
• How to Suceed in Academic and Have Fun Trying, by Lasse Heje Pedersen, CBS
  
  
• Finance Job Market Advice, by Peter Iliev
  
  
• AEA Resources for Economics Students link 
  
  
• AFA Careers link 
  
  
• Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives, by Jonathan Berk, Cam Harvey, and David Hirshleifer
  
  

Presentations

• Tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations, by Monika Piazzesi, University of Chicago
  
  
• How to Give an Applied Micro Talk: Unauthoritative Notes, by Jesse Shapiro
  
  
• Giving an Academic Talk, by Jonathan Shewchuk link 
  
  
• Ten Commandments, by Kjetil Storesletten link 
  
  

Thesis writing

• Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start?, by Don Davis, Columbia University
  
  
• Tips for Finance Ph.D. students, by Luke Taylor
  
  
• Writing Tips for PhD students, by John Cochrane, University of Chicago
  
  
• Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers, by Plamen Nikolov, Harvard University
  
  
• Economical Writing, by Donald McClosky
  
  
• Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner's Guide, by Matthew Genztkow and Jesse Shapiro