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    The 20-line script that saves you hours of mind-numbing tedium

    22 August 2014

    … facing. I have about 10,000 files, each of which contains a job advert for a position in academia. The question is: how … to software development? To find out, I can search the job adverts for terms that are likely to crop up in an …

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    Policy update: surveys, jobs and diversity

    18 August 2015

    … the analysis and results in Zenodo. Investigating the job market Our general interest in software careers led us to study jobs.ac.uk - the de facto job site for UK academia - to understand how many people are … our original work was about right, with about 7% of the job adverts now being related to software development. The …

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    How do we assess candidates for RSE jobs?

    12 August 2022

    … on the acute timescale and in the pressured situation of a job interview, so maybe it’s best to share some example … we have approval to advertise a post, the RSE Team agrees a job advert with “Human Resources” and this is listed on … advertised “About the Job” document. We promote these adverts using a variety of means, including the RSE Society …

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    Thinking about migrating to a different repository?

    18 January 2011

    … to the ad-ridden downloads on SourceForge. We felt that the adverts could cause user confusion, so we chose to move to a … Code has less of a social element to it, but gets the job done and seems to have better management of things like … adding new features and improving. Google Code gets the job done and is more flexible in certain areas, but is …

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    Institute support for EPSRC RSE Fellows and RSE Community

    10 July 2015

    … of useful training materials for RSEs posting job adverts for RSE positions on the Institute website …

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    A not-so-brief history of Research Software Engineers

    17 August 2016

    … . In a short study in 2014, we investigated 10,000 academic job adverts, found 400 of them related to software development, and discovered that these boasted almost 200 different job titles! How can anyone get behind a role, if no one can …

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    A not-so-brief history of Research Software Engineers

    17 August 2016

    … In a short study in 2014, we investigated 10,000 academic job adverts, found 400 of them related to software development, and discovered that these boasted almost 200 different job titles! How can anyone get behind a role, if no one can …

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    Encouraging Women in Software: The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium

    30 April 2014

    … treatment will be given to women who apply  on tech job adverts, I realise now that it is often necessary simply to …

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    The Future of Computational Science

    16 January 2018

    … guessing yourself by giving you feedback on your event adverts and generally having some support here really keeps … true if you need to concurrently work on your own research/job! Finally, although it takes a lot of effort, …

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    Research Software Engineers and Data Scientists: More in Common

    05 April 2018

    … tradition. What we have in common Regardless of job title, we hold in common many of the skills involved and … Observing this convergence, we recommend: Create adverts and job descriptions that are welcoming to people who identify …

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