Engineering Better Job Descriptions

JR Keller is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Studies in the ILR School at Cornell University. Professor Keller’s research focuses on understanding how firms make hiring decisions and individuals make career choices, with a particular interest in the ways in which the dynamics shape how employees change jobs within firms.

Professor Keller’s work has appeared in several leading academic and practitioner outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, People & Strategy, and Organization Science.

Prior to pursuing a Ph.D., Professor Keller had two careers: the first as a financial analyst and the second as a career consultant. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master’s in Adult Education from Indiana University as well as undergraduate degrees in Finance and Computer Applications from the University of Notre Dame.

John McCarthy is an Associate Professor at Cornell University’s ILR School. His research examines how to build and sustain collaborative organizations and the impact of employee participation on workers and broader organizational outcomes. In recent years, John has expanded his research to explore the transformative effects of emerging technologies, with a particular emphasis on generative artificial intelligence and its implications for the future of work. He is the principal investigator at the JEM Lab for Generative AI at Work.

John’s research appears in several leading academic outlets, including Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Harvard Education Press.

Before joining Cornell’s ILR School, John was a Visiting Doctoral Student and Research Fellow at The Wharton School and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, He received his PhD from the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.