This topic may be a bit unusual here since it's not finance related and for one time the question is not how to be recruited but how to recruit .I would like to hire 3 students for master internships and ideally a PhD after. The topics are related to nonlinear optics, ultrashort pulse physics, strong field physics, nonequilibrium plasma dynamic and laser plasma interaction. I'm not posting here a job offer (that would be an abuse here and moreover I doubt to find candidate here) but my question is for the academic people here (and maybe the headhunters can give their words too). How do you find candidates for a thesis ?I have contacted several masters in France related to the topic to diffuse the offers but without success at the moment. Moreover it would be great to have foreign students (why not British or American ) so how do you diffuse the proposition abroad (of course one could send the offer to foreign uni but I doubt of this method).Anyway any comment is welcome

Social networks ?

Send the offer to groups your lab collaborated with.

What is a masters internship?

QuoteOriginally posted by: barnyWhat is a masters internship?That's a good start

I will also contact some foreign universities. In fact the hardest point is totally the contrary to finance. For finance jobs, the hardest point is to select the BEST candidate among a LOT. In physics, the hardest is to find ONE candidate .

QuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXI will also contact some foreign universities. In fact the hardest point is totally the contrary to finance. For finance jobs, the hardest point is to select the BEST candidate among a LOT. In physics, the hardest is to find ONE candidate .Make up a fancy looking poster on the computer, with emotive language. Email the poster to physics departmenst at the schools you are inetersted in. Basically if you send it, and ask them to post it, they will. Many US universities have a director of undergraduate studies in each department - you may want to get directly in touch with a few of these guys too.

QuoteFor finance jobs, the hardest point is to select the BEST candidate among a LOT. In physics, the hardest is to find ONE candidate .I am sure this is related to supply and demand or no one does maths in EU anymore?

QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteFor finance jobs, the hardest point is to select the BEST candidate among a LOT. In physics, the hardest is to find ONE candidate .I am sure this is related to supply and demand or no one does maths in EU anymore?I'm afraid that hard science studies are fading slowly. There is a decay for physics in the heart of students for their career path. The salary I think is the main reason (junior quant in UK=emeritus professor in France in term of salary).Simply that

I think EscapeArtist gave some good advice -- create a very large, very glossy, very sexy poster.Another route might be to promote over at Physics forums , which seem to get a lot of traffic.Besides starting a discussion about it, it looks like you can post some ads.Also, I would advertise at Physics TodayIf it was a post-doc, you would certainly advertise there; don't know ifunder-grads read that, but it can't be very expensive to experiment. Finally, you might want to resuscitate this thread

QuoteOriginally posted by: frenchX so how do you diffuse the proposition abroad (of course one could send the offer to foreign uni but I doubt of this method).conferences. go to a conference in your target country and let it be generally known that you have a funded spot available.

Thanks a lot for your advices -so we will prepare some sexy posters on the topics which will be diffused for US universities. -posting PhD adds on the links of Alan-on May we will go to CLEO in Baltimore and then we will spread the info we are recruiting.

QuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXThanks a lot for your advices -so we will prepare some sexy posters on the topics which will be diffused for US universities. -posting PhD adds on the links of Alan-on May we will go to CLEO in Baltimore and then we will spread the info we are recruiting.in UK the most useful job site for academic jobs (MSc, PhD, postdocs etc) is http://www.jobs.ac.uk/

In my uni the plasma group was very populated and most of the people (MSc studs) are surely keen on moving abroad. PM and I could give you some contacts .

You might want to advertise onmath-jobsphds.org.In math/scientific computing there are a lot of mailinglists with international audience, surely these exist in physics, too.