[AISWorld] Request for help: "How to recruit good PhD students?"

[Ilia Bider]

Hi everybody,

I am doing a short investigation on recruiting 'good' PhD students.
I would appreciate very much if you could share your experience in this 
matter. More exactly, I am interested to know how the recruiting is done 
by your/your university, and which methods of recruiting produce the 
best results (in terms of quality of students)

Below I set a list of possible recruiting methods/situations

(a) Standard - announcement - application - selection
(b) Identifying and recruiting students from graduate/master programs of 
the same university
(c) Identifying and recruiting students from undergraduate/bachelor 
programs of the same university (early identification)
(d) Identifying and recruiting employees from industrial organizations 
participating in a collaborative research project
(e) Meting and recruiting young researchers at scientific events (e.g. 
conferences, workshops)
(f) Following an advice from your colleague who becomes acquainted with 
a potential candidate in situations (b)-(e) above

Could you, please, mark those that occur in your practice, and mention 
what kind of results they produce.
If I missed something in the list, please add to it and give an opinion.

Thank you for cooperation.
As it is a custom here, I will send the summary of responses back to the 
list.

-- Best regards/Ilia
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Dr. Ilia Bider
Process- och systemutvecklingskonsult at ibissoft.se
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