Form FR 28i FR 28i Research Assistant Candidate Survey of Interests and Exp

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Research Assistant Candidate Survey of Interests and Experience
Name:
Expected Graduation Date:
Availability Date:
Are you a United States citizen? ____Yes ___No
U.S. citizenship is required for Research Assistant positions.
I.

The Board's economics divisions study a wide range of topics, including but not
limited to the following broad areas of economic analysis and policy:
Macroeconomics
(General macro, public finance, unemployment, inflation, growth, and productivity)
Microeconomics
(Consumer behavior, labor markets, public finance, urban and regional economics,
health, education, natural resource economics, and industrial organization)
Financial Economics
(Money & capital markets, banking, asset pricing, derivatives, and regulation)
International Economics
(Trade, international finance, and development)
Computational Economics & Econometric Methods
(Algorithm development and simulation methods)
Economic Measurement
(Survey research, economic statistics, and national accounting)
Monetary Policy and Central Banking
(Money markets, monetary policy, and FR operations)
Many qualified Research Assistant candidates have no clear preference among the many
areas of research done at the Board; however, for those who do, indicating such could be
helpful to finding the best fit among the different groups hiring research assistants. Please
rank order the top 3, with 1 being the top, those broad areas of analysis that you are most
interested in pursuing, or choose "no clear preference":
1
2

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3
No Clear Preference

II.

Responses to the prompts below are optional, but allow candidates to expand upon
the qualifications that successful Research Assistants possess, including:
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Collaboration – likes to help others, works well with peers and supervisors, and adds
a new perspective
Initiative – is resourceful and is eager to engage with RA tasks and topics
Integrity – is truthful, respects confidentiality, and admits mistakes
Perseverance – advances in unfamiliar or adverse situations
Time management – manages multiple tasks well and is organized
1. Tell us how you have displayed perseverance and advanced in unfamiliar or adverse
situations. Provide an example of an obstacle or challenge that you had to confront
and how you dealt with it. (200 words or less)

2. Choose one of the other attributes listed above, and tell us how you have displayed
it. Describe any experiences that particularly highlight your possession of this
attribute and explain how it might help you as a research assistant. (200 words or
less)

III.

Successful Research Assistants also possess the ability to acquire and expand data
analysis and programming skills. Please indicate your level of experience with and
your degree of interest in the following areas:

Compiling and
manipulating datasets
Statistical packages
(Stata, R, SAS)
Please specify:

Programming

Experience

Degree of Interest

Limited/
Moderate Extensive
None

Low Moderate Strong

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languages ( SQL,
C++/C/Java,
Perl/Python, Matlab)
Please specify:

Other programs and
operating systems (
Mathematica,
Unix/Linux)
Please specify:

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