by jordicabot | Oct 8, 2011 | funny, job, Research Rants
(cross posted in the software modeling blog) My recipe Step 1: Propose an UML assignment to your students (it doesn’t need to be very difficult, if the group is big enough you are guaranteed to have some that are lazy and rich enough at the same time) Step 2: Wait...
by jordicabot | Aug 30, 2011 | job, Research Rants, team
The single most important thing you can do to attract top talent is to move to a new city. Sure, if you’re a top world scientist people will follow you anywhere. This is not the case of most of us though. In the vast majority of cases, researchers looking for a...
by jordicabot | Mar 17, 2011 | job, Research Rants
It seems that the INEM (Spanish National Agency for Unemployed People in my improvised translation) is recommending people to hide the fact they have a PhD when applying for certain jobs. In some countries, companies appreciate PhDs and they even require it depending...
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