The detail of the 2018 campaign for permanent research positions at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) has been published in the Journal Officiel (see links below) and the submission site is open. The submission deadline is January 8th 2018. There are 293 open positions at the CR level 211 (7 more than last year) 256 DR2 (-4) and 2 DR1 (same as last year). The total number has been stable over the last few years, as shown in the graph below:
An important change has been the merging of the two former CR ranks (second and first class) into a single one "normal class", or CRCN and the creation of an "exceptional class" (by promotion only, I suppose).
This simplification makes a lot of sense, since historically (i.e. 25 years ago) CR2 positions were filled with very junior scientists, typically fresh out of their PhD. Nowadays, they are much more experienced (at least three years of postdoc) so the distinction was less and less relevant, especially since the removal of the age limit.
However, a difference in age and the level of experience between the CR2 and CR1 laureates still persisted and it will be interesting to see how the recruitment committees will react to the merger: push the CRCN level to that of the CR1 competititon or maintain an informal separation and keep on recruiting some younger candidates?
The official texts: CRCN, DR2, DR1.
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