Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, is embarking on its most ambitious faculty-recruitment program to date. It plans to recruit 150 new researchers in the next decade for academic positions in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, more commonly known as STEM. The university has highly cultivated these disciplines, including the related field of medicine, in response to the Jewish state’s economic, scientific, security and health needs.
A delegation of Bar-Ilan professors began the recruitment process this week in the United States, where they have been meeting with Israeli scientists, doctors and engineers who are potential candidates for positions in Israel. At a series of employment fairs, the professors are conducting one-on-one job interviews with them. Nearly 100 pre-selected candidates are expected to attend.
The fairs are being organized in partnership with the nonprofit organization ScienceAbroad, and in cooperation with the Absorption Department in the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption. They are taking place at ScienceAbroad centers in Washington, D.C.; New York; Boston; Los Angeles; San Diego; and Stanford and Berkeley in California.
In 2006, Bar-Ilan University launched a “Returning Scientists” program to recruit Israeli scientists from prestigious early career academic appointments abroad. These returning scientists joined the university’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences; Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering; and the chemistry, computer science, physics and mathematics departments.
They came from such elite institutions as Harvard University, Stanford University, Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Institutes of Health, ETH-Zurich and others.
Excellent initiative.
Wishing you success.