In job-hunting, as in love, finding a match can be a harrowing experience that all too often ends in unhappiness. Some economists think they know how to make it less painful — and they are using their fellow dismal scientists as guinea pigs, says The Wall Street Journal’s Mark Whitehouse.
At this past weekend's annual meeting of the American Economic Association, which hosts a vast job market for aspiring professors, academics tested a technique — borrowed from online dating — to more efficiently match job candidates and potential employers. It is called “signaling,” and it is designed to reduce the time and cost of hiring professors by weeding out those who aren't serious prospects and homing in on those who are.
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