{"id":242,"date":"2006-12-05T09:11:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=242"},"modified":"2006-12-05T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:32:56","slug":"recruitment-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the subsidiary roles of conferences is recruitment.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nips.cc\/\">NIPS<\/a> is optimally placed in time for this because it falls right before the major recruitment season.<\/p>\n<p>I personally found job hunting embarrassing, and was relatively inept at it.  I expect this is true of many people, because it is not something done often. <\/p>\n<p>The basic rule is: make the plausible hirers aware of your interest.  Any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nips.cc\/Sponsors\/\">corporate sponsor<\/a> is  a &#8220;plausible&#8221;, regardless of whether or not there is a booth.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra.org\/main\/cra.jobs.html\">CRA<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/jobcentre.acm.org\/search\/browse\/\">acm job center<\/a> are other reasonable sources.<\/p>\n<p>There are substantial differences between the different possibilities.  Putting some effort into understanding the distinctions is a good idea, although you should always remember where the other person is coming from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the subsidiary roles of conferences is recruitment. NIPS is optimally placed in time for this because it falls right before the major recruitment season. I personally found job hunting embarrassing, and was relatively inept at it. I expect this is true of many people, because it is not something done often. The basic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recruitment Conferences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-machine-learning","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}