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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here-large, corporate, financial- very stable. He is an economist.[/quote]

Still very context-dependent.  Litigation generates significant money for economists, but only in certain fields.  A macro or finance person may draw interest from financial firms.  Someone like a USDA economist will have a somewhat tougher time drawing interest from firms that would directly value the government work he has done.  Economists with strong empirical skills are valued by a slew of companies, e.g., Amazon, Google, or government contractors.  But the market for economists is weak right now, as both university and government hiring are way down, so at least at the moment he'll end up competing with a bunch of very strong new PhDs that would get academic or government jobs in a more normal year.

He should maybe start with any firms he interacted with in the course of his government service?[/quote]

+1. I’m PP 07:17 asking about type of economist and this is why.

I was an economist (macro) in the government and left as a GS-15 for an IFI, which pays better but it still fairly stable with a public sector component. However, there is strong demand for “our” type in private sector finance; it comes with much, much higher pay but much less job security. So I was curious what OP meant by “large, corporate, financial—very stable.” The only thing in my world that is large and financial plus very stable is insurance. Everything else large and financial will fire you at a moment’s notice and not even because you did anything wrong, they may just want to cut costs.

Also echo this PP on the job market for economists. The WSJ just had this yesterday: “[b]Economists Are Studying the Slowing Job Market—and Feeling It Themselves[/b]
[i]Newly minted Ph.D.s tend to work for universities, government agencies and big white-collar companies. It’s not a great hiring time for any of them[/i].”

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/economists-job-market-hiring-2213807b?st=vWh3tq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink[/quote]

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