How Panel Interviews Can Make Hiring EasierPanelsAs the interviewer, I can imagine it would be easier to use a panel interview to gain extra information that you wouldn't get in a one-on-one. It probably gives you extra insight into the candidates' communication skills when they have to deal with the...
Employers commonly conduct one-on-one (or face-to-face) interviews with individual job candidates to select a new staff member. When potential recruits interview with several company representatives, the multiple perspectives provide valuable input to the hiring decision process. However, sometimes in small businesses and start-up environments, only one manager will participate in...
Exorbitant damage awards and legal fees are not the only risks that the employer faces form its workforce. Employee fraud, sabotage disclosure of confidential information or trade secrets, even violence, can cost an employer millions of dollars in damages. Implementing more careful hiring protocols will make it more likely...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN EMBER Seet, 27, joined Big Four Consultancy as an auditor, she was very happy in her work as the management was pro-family and the staff members worked as one happy family. During the employment interview with the managing partner, Lim Ooi Keat, 48,...
This project investigated the interrelationships between family expectations and young people's post-school plans. All of the participants were from financially disadvantaged families. The research used interviews to understand these young people's perspectives of their transition experiences: the ways in which young people's school experiences impacted on their...
What type of emotional transition is experienced by professional dancers who face the end of their career? What does this journey imply? This article discusses the transition experiences of two case studies out of a total sample of fourteen (N=14) international professional ballet dancers who left their...
Mark Watson is a professor and head of the Psychology Department of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. his research focuses on career development and career assessment of primary, secondary and tertiary students from all South African population groups. Mark has published extensively in international...
This study undertook a small preliminary investigation of the contemporary employment practice of 'applying for your own job'. There has not yet been a specific study into the effect upon individuals and organisations of the practice of existing employees being required to apply for the same or...
IMPRESSIVE INTERVIEWS: YOUR POCKET-SIZED PERSONAL INTERVIEW TRAINER Deborah Barit, Leichchardt: A&A Book Publishing, 2007, 108pp., ISBN 978-0-9803523-0-6 This compact and practical 'how-to' book covers some key essentials which will assist the job candidate whose interview is imminent and who needs to come to...
CAREER ENDEAVOUR: PURSUING A CROSS-CULTURAL LIFE TRANSITION Charles P. Chen, hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006, 164pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4621-1 Charles Chen states that the purpose of this book is to illustrate the complexity of life career transition in the context of cross-cultural adjustment. To...
Just wanted to comment about how much I loved the June issue. As a vegan, I have found in the past there would be only a few recipes I could use, and very rarely would there be a dessert recipe I could make without having to figure out my own...
Three months down, two to go, in the FLEX Bikini Model Search Online presented by Champion Nutrition. This month, beautiful Jamie Wright from Dallas, Texas, earned top honors. Wright, a former cheerleader who recently took up mixed-martial-arts training, won the $250 cash prize and earned a spot in the 15-woman...
IN ONE CORNER, THE TWO-TIME AND REIGNING MR. OLYMPIA, hungry to prove himself worthy of bodybuilding's ultimate title once again after narrowly holding on to it a year ago. In the other, the reigning Arnold Classic champ, who took a giant step forward with his best-ever showing in March of...
Whatever your health club-related question, The Gym Survival Guide ($13; barnesandnoble.com) will answer it. Authors Gregg Cook a certified personal trainer and Fatima d'Almeida-Cook share countless tips for finding a gym, looking like a pro, and staying motivated. Our favorite three: WHEN JOINING A GYM ... you'll often...
In "Nuclear Power? Yes, Please" (June 16), Iain Murray attributed an Amory Lovins quote--"It'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we might do with it"--to a 1977 interview with Playboy. In fact, the quote appeared that...
In 1987, 208 second graders were interviewed about their occupational aspirations and expectations, school likes and dislikes, educational plans, and other variables. They were reinterviewed every 2 years through senior year in high school. A5-year post-high school follow-up was conducted, and 35 young adults (23 years old) from the original...
This one is out of Racine, WI, and has gotten better in leaps and bounds since I last thumbed through one (although getting past four full-page photos in a row of carpet skating was more than a bit trying. Although I guess you gotta think about winter in Wisconsin). This...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This one is stuffed in a plastic bag with a parental advisory over the grody cover done by the artist Putrid (there's more of his stuff inside as well, plus he's the subject of this month's Canvas). A little sparse on the skate content this time...
This mag kicks ass, but is plagued by two small problems: the photo reproduction, despite being what appears to be color photocopied, isn't that great (the photos are good, it's the printing that's the problem), and good goddamn the print is so small (what is this, a size four font?)...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHAT WE HAVE here is a pop band from Denmark. Have you heard of that place? You probably remember that line about "Something rotting in the state ..." from Hamlet. Maybe you thought of Rune Glifberg. Top points if you knew it was a country in...
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