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Subject: industry courts academia -- where does the dialogue start?
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 10:03:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 10:03:30 1984
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!libation to the net gods--this is a re-posting due to truncation on prev. try

    Harking back to previous discussions in various places, I am musing upon 
the difficulties a company in Cambridge is having finding training personnel.  
Lotus (of LOTUS-1-2-3) is trying to find people to do in-house training of 
engineers to both keep them up to date on growing technologies, and to bring 
new development staff up to speed very quickly--developing curricula and 
setting up seminars--considerably parallel to professorial positions, though 
not quite.  

    I should imagine that a lot of academic environment people might leap at 
the opportunity--teaching at industry salary, for a good company, to highly 
motivated intelligent students.  But how are these people going about the 
search for this position?  They are working through headhunters!

    I don't think that they are going to get very many really good candidates 
quickly that way, though I can understand their reluctance to advertise in the 
general newspapers around here (Boston).  They'd be inundated with unqualified 
applicants.  But headhunters are unlikely to have contacts in the academic 
environments where the best candidates may well lie in wait.

    If you were in Lotus's position, how would you go about the search for 
candidates?  Professional journals are a possibility, I suppose.  How do you
people in the academic environments hear about jobs like this?  Do you have 
contacts with "headhunters?"

    I am curious, since I hear of academics moving into industry positions, 
how they find their jobs, or their jobs find them.  Send me responses, and if 
enough interesting ones come in, I will digest them for the net.

    				Shava Nerad
    				Telematic Systems
    				(currently assigned to DEC Ed. Svcs.)

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