Jobs and Fellowships: How to find open vacancies?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion focuses on how to find open vacancies for jobs and fellowships in the fields of physics and related areas. Participants share resources and tools, including websites and RSS feeds, to streamline the job search process.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Technical explanation, Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • Dr. S. Vani discusses the challenges of finding job and fellowship listings across multiple sources and introduces a blog-based website that aggregates job postings using RSS technology.
  • Another participant mentions www.jobs.ac.uk as a resource for job listings in the UK and beyond.
  • One participant notes that they have included RSS feeds from several job sites and invites suggestions for additional feeds.
  • A different participant highlights the APS Career Center as a significant resource for physics jobs, pointing out the absence of an RSS feed for that site.
  • Dr. Vani responds by confirming the addition of jobs from the APS Career Center to their website, indicating ongoing updates to the resource.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the usefulness of aggregating job listings through various online resources, but there are differing opinions on which sites are most important and how to best utilize them.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express limitations in the availability of RSS feeds for certain job sites, which may affect the comprehensiveness of the job listings being aggregated.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals seeking academic or research positions in physics and related fields, as well as those interested in fellowship opportunities.

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Journals like Nature, New Scientist, Science or any Physics related journals and websites do provide job/fellowship listing, but it would be very difficult for a person to look at many sources every now and then and collect suitable vacancy announcements. I can tell you this is the most tedious job from my own experience. I was thinking for solution to this problem for so long and finally I developed a blog-based website which is powered by RSS technology.

URL: http://physicsjobs.blogspot.com

It contains jobs (research/academic) and fellowships (grad/postdoc), etc. As it is solely depends on RSS feeds, it could bring all the latest jobs instantly as and when it is posted on the Internet.

Currently my students are making use of the site. I believe the site would be useful to many others. Please circulate this message to those who are interested..

Regards
Vani

Dr. S. Vani
Bangalore
 
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Of course, www.jobs.ac.uk does this for the UK - and sometimes further afield.
 
yes, I included rss feeds from such half a dozen sites already. if anybody suggests more related feeds I would add them all.
 
I think you might have missed one of the most important job site for physics - the APS Career Center. I don't see any RSS feed for that one.

http://careers.aps.org/search/browse/

Zz.
 
TQ for the info. One could generate rss from this site. Please check back http://physicsjobs.blogspot.com now. Jobs from APS are now included. Thanks again
 

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