...position is open to men and women who are at least seventeen years old. There are enlistment requirements that you must pass. You have to be a U.S. citizen in good physical condition with a clean record. If you pass these, then you move on to basic training for ten weeks. After basic training, if you pass the Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery with scores in skilled technical of 101 and general technical of 107, you go to Advanced Individual Training. Basic training is where you learn how to be a soldier. It lasts ten weeks and is divided into two phases. When you arrive, haircuts and uniforms are given out. During the first phase, the drill instructors treat you like...
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...about individuality and demographics that differ from person to person and how they influence person behavior. To appreciate how diversity impacts the work place one should be able to identify skill and abilities, Values and attitudes, and have an open mind about Age and gender. Skills and knowledge are imperative considerations for a manager when choosing to hire a person. There are various tests to measure mental aptitudes and abilities. Some of these provide an overall intelligent quotient (IQ) score. Others provide measures of more specific competencies of people entering various educational programs or career field. Such tests are designed to facilitate the screening and selection of applicants for educational programs or jobs. Some jobs, such as firefighters and police, require tests for physical abilities. Muscular strength and cardiovascular endurance are two of many physical ability dimensions. For instance, one of the requirements for joining the military is that you have to take and pass the ASVAT exam. It is important to do your best because if you are just trying to pass the exam you may not like the kind of job that you will be doing while serving the Armed Forces. The better your score the better job and option on what you can do while in the service. Aptitude and Ability are important considerations for a manager when initially hiring or selecting candidates for a job. Aptitude refers to a person’s ability of learning something, whereas ability refers...
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...Running Head: Personality Test, Profiling and Bad Judgment 3 Personality Test, Profiling and Bad Judgment A Personality Test Won’t Prove You’re a Thief When the average American applied for a job back in the 1900’s you fill out an application or walk-in to talk to the employer. Now you sit at a computer, fill out your info and take a psychological test. This psychological testing is a set of questions and you are given a A,B,C, or D answer set. These questions are easy to understand but what about the answers? The answers are not your own they are made up to describe you from which one you choose and tell the employer if you are a good worker or not to be trusted. 1.The widespread use of personality tests as a means of determining which employees to hire raises a number of issues, ranging from the validity and reliability of the tests to concerns about invasion of privacy and discrimination against minorities. These issues raise the question whether the benefits of personality tests outweigh the costs of employing them. Most employers don’t understand how to use the testing to tell if the applicant is worth the hire. There are four different test types aptitude, personality, skills, and job knowledge. The aptitude and the personality test are the two of the four that are not accurate but the other two skills and job knowledge are fine. Skills and job knowledge are based on physical actions...
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...scissors, trimming. The strands fall on the floor in a dull, blond ring. When she finishes, she pulls my hair away from my face and twists it into a knot. I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can’t say the same of myself. I sneak a look at my reflection when she isn’t paying attention—not for the sake of vanity, but out of curiosity. A lot can happen to a person’s appearance in three months. In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose—I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen. The other factions celebrate birthdays, but we don’t. It would be self-indulgent. “There,” she says when she pins the knot in place. Her eyes catch mine in the mirror. It is too late to look away, but instead of scolding me, she smiles at our reflection. I frown a little. Why doesn’t she reprimand me for staring at myself? “So today is the day,” she says. “Yes,” I reply. “Are you nervous?” I stare into my own eyes for a moment. Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in. And tomorrow, at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a f action; I will decide the rest of my life; I will decide to stay with my family or abandon them. “No,” I say. “The tests don’t have to change our choices.” “Right.” She smis. “Let’s go eat breakfast.” “Thank you. For cutting my hair.” She kisses my cheek and slides the panel over...
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...character, is sixteen years old and has experienced what it is like to be selfless for the first sixteen years of her life. “Why doesn’t she reprimand me for staring at myself?”(2). Since day one, Beatrice was taught never to think of herself, but to think only of others. You are not even allowed to look at yourself in the mirror. The story begins when Beatrice takes her aptitude test and it comes back inconclusive. After the aptitude test on choosing day, Beatrice has to choose from five different factions; Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave) and Erudite (the intelligent). After the aptitude test Beatrice get three results, Abnegation, Erudite and Dauntless. This makes her “divergent” and she is warned to never share this with anyone for fear of her life. “Divergence is extremely dangerous”(23). During the choosing ceremony, Beatrice surprises her parents and chooses Dauntless, leaving her Mom and Dad behind. “Then, with a gasp I can’t contain, I shift my hand forward, and my blood sizzles on the coals. I am Selfish. I am brave”(47). Now Beatrice has to pass an initiation process before she is accepted as a Dauntless member. Beatrice must prove to all of the Dauntless-born initiates, that she is not a little stiff. She finds...
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...Institute of Business Administration (IBA) MBA Admission Test 50th Batch ( Session 2012 – 2013 ) MBA Admission Test (2012 – 13) of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka will be held on Friday, June 14, 2013 at 10 am. For all other certificates, equivalence will be determined by the Equivalence Committee of IBA. ELIGIBILITY All applicants must have at least a Bachelor Degree in any field of study. The minimum qualifying point is seven (07) for all applicants. The points are calculated as follows: SELECTION PROCEDURE The test has two components: Written Assessment and Interview. The written assessment component evaluates applicants’ aptitude in Language, Mathematics, and Analytical ability. An applicant must obtain a minimum qualifying score in each of the above areas to pass of the written test and appear for the interview. All Bangladeshi applicants must take the admission test. An applicant with foreign nationality with minimum 70 percentile in GMAT may be exempted from the written assessment. However, they will be required to appear for an interview. SSC and HSC or Equivalents SSC GPA/Div >= 4.0/Ist >= 3.0/2nd >= 1.0/3rd HSC GPA/Div >= 4.0/Ist >= 3.0/2nd >= 1.0/3rd O-level GPA A-level GPA Points Earned 3 2 1 * * >= 3.0 >= 2.5 >= 1.0 >=2.5 >= 2.0 >= 1.0 Applicants who have taken O-Level examination must pass at least five (05) subjects (including mathematics) with a minimum of grade D in each of the subjects. Applicants...
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...Police Officer Selection Process CJA/214 Police Officer Selection Process Local law enforcement officers hold the most important responsibility of working the “front lines” of crimes in communities all over the country. Some departments have the advantage because they deal with a smaller population, but there are cities with millions of people. Considering the vast sizes of population in different cities, it’s important to acknowledge that the task of a police officer should be designated to the best candidates. Furthermore, the training and education provided should be optimal so that officers are well equipped to secure public safety. Law enforcement agencies are structured based on their geographic locations; and can potentially be divided into districts if the terrain is large enough. Uniformed law enforcement officials usually patrol inside a designated area. Having officers constantly patrol the same areas allows them to familiarize themselves with the location. The familiarity allows police officers to quickly notice any irregularities among the community. Larger jurisdictions call for police officers to patrol the area in pairs. The reality is that officer constantly face criminals as they pursue or arrest them, enforce traffic laws, and resolving other problems throughout the community. The New York Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department are the most popular departments in the country but they have significant...
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... a different type of test is becoming prominent in school systems. Standardized testing, examinations administered and scored in a standard manner (7), are taking over the school systems. Standardized tests administered to students are either aptitude tests or achievement tests. Aptitude tests predict student’s performance, like the common ACT and SAT that colleges frequently use; achievement tests evaluate teacher and school effectiveness (7). Although standardized tests are becoming significant in school curriculum, the results do not accurately represent student or teacher abilities....
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...OFFICER SELECTION AND TRAINING PROCESS PAPER MICHAEL DOWNS 03/03/13 Officer selection is a very detailed process. Every police department wants to recruit, select, train, and maintain the best and brightest officers possible. The job of a police officer requires an individual that can deal with stressful situations and the ability to interact with the community. The job requires quick decision-making, and good judgment. Police duties vary from writing reports to maintaining order to responding to criminal situations, all of which require critical thinking skills. Officers should possess certain traits due to the range of duties they will have to perform. These traits include physically agility, the ability to cope with difficult situations, well-developed writing skills, good communication skills, sound judgment, compassion, strong powers of observation, and the ability to both exert and respect commands of authority (Grant & Terry, 2008). The selection process begins with a set of standards that are laid out by the department in which is doing the hiring. State and local police departments are similar with minor differences. These requirements are age, height and weight, education, criminal history, and residency (Forestal, Officer. 2010). These are the basic requirements that these departments use. The age limit is a barrier in which a department...
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...and using a gun. Civil law and jurisdiction which is learning the basic laws of military police. investigating and collecting evidence which is going to crimes scenes and finding how the crime has happened and collecting samples of blood and turning the evidence in. Traffic and crowd control is when you guide the cars from other cars. your compensation will include housing food vacation time. The education benefits are phenomenal you can get full tuitions, merit-based scholarships, allowance for books and fees. Your future career will help you with local law enforcement army military police lead police squad and section...
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...recruiter must talk to a recruit and his legal guardian or parents as no one under 18 can’t make decisions for themselves without their parents/ guardians permission. The recruiter then will start the process, one of the recruiter’s first assignments is to get the civilian ASVAB scores from their local high school or if the recruit is from out of town they can be retested on the ASVAB. The ASVAB stands for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test and it accesses a recruit’s probability for enlistment, military job placement and career exploration after the military. ASVAB scoring is based on (IRT) Item Response Theory, this model is used because it measures the examinee’s ability to be placed on the same scale as everyone else and each test is tailored to a specific ability level needed when the examinee picks their military job. The IRT model uses the (3pl) in which measures a examinee’s level of ability to respond to a individual item or characteristics, especially those characteristics that represents difficulty, discrimination (How an item discriminates among examinees, and guessing (the ability that a low ability examinee could get a high score just by guessing). (ASVAB, 2011) ASVAB,...
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...A P P O I N T M E N T National Defence Academy Khadakwasla, Pune – 411 023 Applications are invited from Indian Nationals to fill up the following vacancies. Application form duly completed should reach the National Defence Academy, PO : NDA Khadakwasla, Pune-411023 within 21 days from the date of publication of this advertisement :- |Ser |Name of Post |Pay Scale | |Reserved for |Total | |Out of total posts, | |No | | |UR (Gen) | |Posts to be| |reserved for | | | | | | |filled | | | | | | |Chemical Assistant (Museum and |(a) B.Sc. with Chemistry as main subject from a recognized University. | |Archives) |(b) Five years experience of working from a recognized Organization or Undertaking in Chemistry Laboratory or | | |Museum or Archives. | | |(c) Knowledge of store keeping. ...
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...New Security Employee Guide John Siggers SEC/430 March 18, 2013 New Security Employee Guide Throughout this guide as a new employee you will learn about many of the basics of what to do in investigations. These topics will start with the basic principles of an investigation then lead into the criminal investigation basics then learn the proper evidence acquisition and management the next step in the guide to helping you with the investigation process is employee and administrative investigations ending with personnel investigations. Investigation Principles Investigations are the examination, study, tracking, and the gathering of factual information (Sennewald-Tsukayama 2006). With this being said the investigation process is more of an art form than it is science, but science in many investigations plays a large part. The person that is doing the investigation is the gather of facts; this person must hypotheses and is able to draw a conclusion that is based on the information and the evidence. The basic principle in investigation is that the process is a comprehensive activity that involves the collection of information with the application of logic and the ability to use sound reasoning. The basic end result in any investigation is that it is a factual explanation of what has happened if the issue or incident is that of history, or what is occurring, or if the issue is of the present (Sennewald-Tsukayama 2006). There are two types of investigations...
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...Standardized tests are poor because they measure a student's level of education by giving them tests that if they fail, it would jeopardize their future therefore they should get rid of them. It is wrong for a student to complete four years of high school with good grades and other good qualifications, and then have that student take a test and be placed at a remedial level due to the scores they receive. Standardized tests are a waste of time, because some people actually know the information and are smart, but they are just bad tests takers or maybe they just are not good with a test, which does not mean they should be put in remedial classes or be denied admission to the university they want to go to because of that. Standardized test are...
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...Homework and Testing 1 Homework and Testing Assigning Homework How much is too much? As with classroom assignments, homework should never be given as busy work. It should have a purpose with a goal. And as I mentioned in the Behavioral Approach to Learning, homework should NEVER be given as punishment. The kid will associate homework with punishment. This may interest you. Harris Cooper (1998) analyzed more than 100 research studies on homework in American schools. He found that homework had a very small connection with test scores at the elementary level. If anything, the more homework an elementary school student had, the more negative their attitude was toward school. Plus it takes away from their social time, which is an important part of growing up. Kids need to learn social skills. Too much homework causes stress, as you probably know very well by now. Kids need to have down time too! Why does homework have such a small effect at the elementary level? One reason is that young children have limited attention spans and are very distractible. It is difficult to do homework in a house that has many distractions. Teachers need to work with parents and help students find a quiet space to do homework. Most professional organization in education agrees that homework should never exceed 10 - 20 minutes per day in grades K - 2. In grades 3 - 6 homework should never exceed 30 - 60 minutes per day. Another reason elementary school children do not benefit much from homework is...
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