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Practical guides to finding and understanding frontier research talent: sourcing workflows, research briefs, AI conferences, research titles and metrics explained.
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What Is Research Talent Intelligence? A Practical Definition
A clear definition of Research Talent Intelligence: what it covers, how it differs from talent intelligence and bibliometrics, and where its limits are.
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Guides you can put to work.
Step-by-step workflows and templates for specialist research searches.
2026-09-09
How to Find AI Research Scientists: A Sourcing Guide
A practical workflow for sourcing frontier research talent: define the brief, find relevant work, build an evidence-backed shortlist and write better outreach.
2026-09-20
How to Write a Research Brief for a Technical Search (With Template)
A one-page research brief makes a specialist search precise. The seven fields that matter, a template to copy and the questions to ask your research lead.
2026-09-20
How to Read a Research Paper as a Recruiter (No PhD Required)
A ten-minute routine for getting what you need from a research paper: the problem, what is new, the evidence and who did what.
2026-09-20
How to Write Outreach a Researcher Will Actually Answer
Researchers answer messages that are about their work. How to prepare, the four-part message, a worked example, subject lines and follow-up etiquette.
2026-09-20
A Recruiter’s Guide to AI Research Conferences: NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR and More
The peer-reviewed conferences that matter in machine learning, computer vision, NLP, robotics and systems, and how to read them on a publication list.
2026-09-09
How to Evaluate AI Researchers Beyond Citation Counts
Assess relevance, individual contribution and research judgment with a practical screening framework, comparison examples and questions for a technical discussion.
Insights
How research careers really read.
Plain-language explanations of the titles, metrics and signals behind a research career.
2026-09-20
Research Scientist vs Research Engineer vs Applied Scientist: What the Titles Mean
What Research Scientist, Research Engineer and Applied Scientist usually mean, where the boundaries blur and how to search when the title will not tell you who fits.
2026-09-13
Artifact-Based Scoring: A Guide to Research Talent Discovery
Understand the published work behind a researcher’s standing, momentum and activity. Use that context to make a specialist search more focused.
2026-03-26
What a job title leaves out of a research career
A title helps locate someone in an organisation. It says much less about the problems they work on. Three questions can make a specialist search more useful.