Comments on: Headhunting goes automatic for the people http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/headhunting-recruitment-expert.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hector http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/headhunting-recruitment-expert.html/comment-page-1#comment-637445 Hector Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:03:05 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=5868#comment-637445 This is a very interesting topic and should be on the forefront of every new professor in an an academic research driven center. New principal investigators should see the benefit of having such a database available to them for identifying possible collaborators which provide the complementary expertise needed to drive cutting edge research forward. A faculty member at my institution eloquently put it this way. Departments are like the pillars that support the basic foundations in which research areas are based, but cross discipline collaborations between previously isolated basic research fields are the trusses and supports that provide stability to the upon which to build higher levels of knowledge. If academics is to continue to move towards a more cross-disciplinary research model, the development of this and other tools which facilitate the identification and recruitment of knowledgeable collaborators will provide a strong base for new and exciting research. This is a very interesting topic and should be on the forefront of every new professor in an an academic research driven center. New principal investigators should see the benefit of having such a database available to them for identifying possible collaborators which provide the complementary expertise needed to drive cutting edge research forward.

A faculty member at my institution eloquently put it this way. Departments are like the pillars that support the basic foundations in which research areas are based, but cross discipline collaborations between previously isolated basic research fields are the trusses and supports that provide stability to the upon which to build higher levels of knowledge.

If academics is to continue to move towards a more cross-disciplinary research model, the development of this and other tools which facilitate the identification and recruitment of knowledgeable collaborators will provide a strong base for new and exciting research.

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