Interview Candidates

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Watkin ◽  
Andrew Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Future Contribution ◽  
Considerable Advantage ◽  
Perceived Familiarity

In this chapter, we focus on the dynamic brought by different combinations of candidate, looking at three specific scenarios. Firstly, we look at the implications of there being an internal candidate, from the perspective of being both the internal candidate and the competing external candidate. We then examine the implications of being either the only candidate or a head-hunted candidate, two scenarios where it is easy to ‘undo’ being offered the job. There is no doubt that being an internal candidate can put you at a considerable advantage. Some of the interview committee may well: • Know your past, your good points and bad points and will be better able to judge your likely future contribution • Have already developed a relationship with you, including a sense of whether they feel comfortable working with you for the next 30 years However, this familiarity or perceived familiarity can also be the internal candidate’s downfall. It is not infrequent that we come across internal candidates who believe the job is in the bag and so fail to prepare or engage in the activity that ensures they are likely to be offered the job, e.g. undertaking pre-interview visits. Sometimes it is because they think it is embarrassing to do something like a pre-interview visit if they are already employed in the Trust and know the staff well. We also find internal candidates who are reluctant to really sell themselves at interview when already known, again out of embarrassment. The advice is clear—prepare as though you were an external candidate whilst making best use or advantage of your internal status. Take nothing for granted and ensure you do your homework as thoroughly as any good external candidate. When experiencing your efforts to prepare, your colleagues, far from thinking it is weird, are likely to view this as the sort of commitment they would want from a future colleague. Box 7.1 explores the internal candidate’s ‘must do’ list if you are to be successful.

scholarly journals On the aberrations of compound lenses and object-glasses

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 146-147
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Aberration ◽  
Focal Length ◽  
Considerable Advantage ◽  
Optical Instruments ◽  
Spherical Surfaces ◽  
Finite Distance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Algebraic Investigation ◽  
Difficult Part

To those mathematicians who have investigated the theory of the refracting telescope, it has often, says Mr. Herschel, been objected, that little practical benefit has resulted from their speculations. Although the simplest considerations suffice for correcting that part of the aberration which arises from the different refrangibility of the different coloured rays, yet in the more difficult part of the theory of optical instruments which relates to the correction of the spherical aberration, the necessity of algebraic investigation has always been , acknowledged; although, however, the subject is confessedly within its reach, a variety of causes have interfered with its successful prosecution, and the best artists are content to work their glasses by empirical rules. In the investigations detailed in this paper, the author’s object is, first to present, under a general and uniform analysis, the whole theory of the aberration of spherical surfaces; and then to furnish practical results of easy computation to the artist, and applicable, by the simplest interpolations, to the ordinary materials on which he works. In pursuing these ends he has found it necessary somewhat to alter the usual language employed by optical writers;—thus, instead of speaking of the focal length of lenses, or the radii of their surfaces , he speaks of their powers and curvatures ; designating, by the former expression, the quotient of unity by the number of parts of any scale which the focal length is equal to; and by the latter, the quotient similarly derived from the radius in question. After adverting to some other parts of the subject of this paper, more especially to the problem of the destruction of the spherical aberration in a double or multiple lens, and to the difficulties which it involves, Mr. Herschel observes, that one condition, hitherto unaccountably overlooked, is forced upon our attention by the nature of the formulæ of aberration given in this paper; namely, its destruction not only from parallel rays, but also from rays diverging from a point at any finite distance, and which is required in a perfect telescope for land objects, and is of considerable advantage in those for astronomical use: 1st, The very moderate curvatures required for the surfaces; 2nd, That in this construction the curvatures of the two exterior surfaces of the compound lens of given focal length vary within very narrow limits, by any variation in either the refractive or dispersive powers at all likely to occur in practice; 3rd, That the two interior surfaces always approach so nearly to coincidence, that no considerable practical error can arise from neglecting their difference, and figuring them on tools of equal radii.

scholarly journals Present-day and future contribution of climate and fires to vegetation composition in the boreal forest of China

Ecosphere ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. e01917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Wu ◽  
Sergey Venevsky ◽  
Stephen Sitch ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Menghui Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Future Contribution ◽  
Vegetation Composition

scholarly journals Socioeconomic impacts with the implementation of the railroad EF-118 RJ/ES: comparison of cargo logistics at the Port of Açu

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e995998389
Author(s):  
Matheus Novaes Valinho ◽  
Jhenifer Terezinha Aparecida Mattos Cescon ◽  
Ana Paula Roem Simoni ◽  
Lucília de Lourdes Pellozo Zambrotti
Keyword(s):  
Road Transport ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
Industrial District ◽  
Socioeconomic Impacts ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
Considerable Advantage ◽  
Cargo Handling ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Approximate Cost ◽  
The Cost

Since the beginning of operations in 2014, Port of Açu has shown significant growth in relation to cargo handling, with all demand dependent on road transport. However, there is a proposal for the implementation of the EF-118 railway that would interconnect Rio de Janeiro and Vitória, serving the region of Port. This work seeks to economically evaluate the advantages of the implementation of the railway modal compared to the roadway already used in the region. Due to the intense flow of cargo in the Industrial-Port Complex, the possibility of building a new highway, the RJ-244, is being studied, extending from the industrial district to BR-101. For this purpose, surveys were conducted to determine the average daily volume of vehicles circulating in the region, in addition to the different types of cargo transported and their relationship with Port. Based on the information collected in the Traffic Studies Report issued, it was possible to relate data and achieve at the value of the average annual daily volume for each category of cargo handled in the Port. Bearing in mind that in 2019, Port of Açu handled approximately 751 thousand tons of cargo and analyzing the estimated costs by ABIFER for road and rail transport, the approximate cost values for each one per ton of cargo per kilometer were reached. Comparing values, it is possible to notice that the cost of transporting cargo by rail corresponds to about 16.6% of the amount spent on transporting of the same weight of cargo by road, which means a considerable advantage for its implementation.

scholarly journals Inscription of Greek Mercenaries to Abu Simbel

Axon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Struffolino
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Considerable Advantage ◽  
The People ◽  
Economic Nature ◽  
Different Origins

On the leg of one of the colossal statues on the facade of the great funerary temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, in Nubia, Archon son of Amoibichos and Peleqos son of Eudamos, two mercenaries of Greek-Carian origin who militated in the ranks of the Egyptian Army, engrave a five lines inscription in which they recall the salient data of the expedition against the Nubian populations launched by the pharaoh of the XXVI dynasty Psammethicus II between 593 and 592 BC. The different origins of the people who left their mark in this and in the other graffiti on the Abu Simbel temple, explained by the palaeographic and dialectal peculiarities of the texts, confirm what we can learn from other sources, above all Herodotus, on the opening of the Saitic Egypt to external presences, also organised in stable settlements. The reasons for such a reception were certainly of an economic nature, but it is undeniable that for the Egyptians a considerable advantage came also from the possibility of exploiting the new military potentials of the Greek hoplite tactics, contributing to the spread of a mercenary service that encouraged different degrees of ethnic and social integration.

Saving as a Path for Female Empowerment and Entrepreneurship in Rural Peru

2021 ◽  
pp. 146499342110352
Author(s):  
Marianne Daher ◽  
Antonia Rosati ◽  
Andrea Jaramillo
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Social Support Networks ◽  
Considerable Advantage ◽  
The Future ◽  
Women's Lives

Much research has identified the difficulties of promoting women’s empowerment using microcredit, but there has been little research on the potential for empowerment from promoting women’s savings. We address this gap through a qualitative study of three women’s savings programmes in the Highlands of Peru. The results reveal changes in several domains of women’s lives (economic, personal and relational), emphasizing that these programmes enable them to think about the future, expand their social support networks, and become entrepreneurs. We conclude that savings interventions have considerable advantage over microcredit programmes for facilitating female empowerment and that the merits of these interventions go far beyond financial inclusion with significant impacts on women’s psychosocial well-being and broader empowerment.

Mixed Methods, Ethnography, and Criminology/Criminal Justice Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-154
Author(s):  
Nigel G. Fielding
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Future Contribution ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Criminal Justice Research ◽  
Crime And Criminal Justice

This chapter provides an overview of the historical dimensions of ethnographies using mixed-methods approaches, supported by examples from selected landmark works within this tradition. It presents the epistemological assumptions about knowledge production, positionality, and the types of questions typically asked by a criminologist using mixed methods and makes clear how they differ from ethnographies using other approaches and traditions. The chapter considers what ethnographies using a mixed-methods approach can produce that other approaches may not be able to. It then details how ethnographies using mixed methods can contribute to policy development, framing this against the perspectives and needs of policymakers. The chapter concludes by assessing the potential future contribution of ethnographically grounded mixed-methods research to crime and criminal justice issues.

Towards a Composite Educational Research Methodology: Balancing the Authority Equation in Aboriginal Education

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.G. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Conversion Process ◽  
Local People ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Christian Conversion ◽  
Considerable Advantage

In northern Australia Aboriginal ‘settlements’ or communities are, in the main, the product of a variety of west-centric priorities, the needs, for example of missionaries to keep prospective converts conveniently at hand to maintain the pressure of the Christian conversion process or for government agencies to distribute welfare from single accessible locations. The establishment of fixed communities usually brought considerable advantage and power to those mainstream organisations which established them. However, along with some obvious physical benefits for the local people, such as improved access to some of the accruals of west-centric technology and welfare, came a variety of hazards and obstacles to the maintenance of a lifestyle with which local people felt secure and confident.

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