...other words: questions designed to trick you. Can you tell me about yourself? Why do they ask this? They ask to determine how the candidates see themselves as it pertains to the position. "The employer wants to hear that the candidate did their homework," says Tina Nicolai, executive career coach and founder of Resume Writers' Ink. "The interviewer is also listening for a level of confidence in how well the candidate portrays herself through the information that is communicated. Additionally, the interviewer is listening for strong behavioral competencies, which help determine a right fit with the job. If this opening answer is weak, it can send the remainder of the interview into a tailspin or cut the interview short." What makes it tricky? It can tempt you to talk about your personal life — which you shouldn't! "Most candidates are not versed in seeing this as a trick question, so they may answer by speaking from a personal perspective: 'I have three kids, I'm married, etc,'" Nicolai says. "Believe it or not, even the most seasoned candidate falls for this question especially when prompted by the interviewer to elaborate." What response are they looking for? A focused, laser-sharp answer conveying your value to the organization and department. "The employer wants to hear about your achievements broken down into two or three succinct bullet answers that will set the tone of the interview," she says. Remember, what we tell people about us is what they hear. So...
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...Charles and Miss Awful Have you ever met a tricky kid or a mean but helpful teacher. The stories Charles and Miss Awful by Shirley Jackson and Arthur Cavanaugh are about a kid who has a very tricky mind and parents that don’t know anything about it. Charles: The setting of this story is Laurie’s school and his house. The action mostly takes part in the school but some parts are in the house. Laurie is a static character because he doesn’t change throughout the story. He is the same tricky kid. His problem is he gets in trouble a lot. He solves this problem by not telling his parents about him getting in trouble. He invents a classmate named Charles who says is the trouble maker. The teacher reacts to this by being surprised and angry...
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...For years Vic has been able to keep “Vic the Tricky Work Guy” separate from “Vic the Honest Family Guy” but the distinction is eroding. Vic is at a crossroads, for he recognizes that his workplace behaviors, choices and ethics are beginning to influence “Vic the Honest Family Guy.” Worse yet, Vic is becoming satisfied with the person he is at work. This paper will explore the consequences this eroding distinction has on Vic’s professional prospects and in his personal life. It will also examine several of the consequences organizations face as a result of a corporate culture that does not value candor. For over four years, “Vic the Tricky Work Guy” work persona has served Vic very well professionally. Greenline management considers him a high performer with high potential. He has been given a great deal of latitude and his peers and employees generally seem to respect him. While Vic recognizes that he is compromising his personal values at work, he is convinced it is necessary for him to get ahead. He does not recognize or acknowledge the impact that compromising his personal values will have on his professional reputation and career growth over the long term. At work, Vic is beginning to shift focus away from fulfilling his core job responsibilities to making himself look good. As in the case of fabricating an excuse about his daughter to get out of a trip to Houston, Vic is going to rather extreme lengths to shun his responsibilities. Eventually, the excuses...
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...Poetry Analysis Essay for “Road Not Taken” By: Robert Frost Course # and Title: ENGL 102: Literature and Composition Semester of Enrollment: Spring 2012 Name: Timothy Bayless ID #: L22915807 Writing Style Used: MLA Timothy Bayless L22915807 ENGL-102 C04 Poetry Analysis Essay Outline I. Introduction A. Facts: Robert Frost thought a poem should start with delight but end in wisdom and has also won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times. B. Title and Author: “The Road Not Taken” By: Robert Frost C. Thesis: The poem displays the difficult decisions people make in order to progress in life and how one choice can alter the future for better or worse. II. Body A. Meaning and Message i. Surface Meaning: A person comes to a “y” in the road and has to decide which way to go. ii. Deeper Meaning: Internal debates are overwhelming when deciding what the right decision to make is. iii. Theme: The choices made in life can alter the future for better or worse. B. Tone i. The person speaking in the poem seems to have a certain level of maturity and it shows in the debate about which road to take. ii. The tone of the speaker is solemn in nature. iii. The reason the tone seems solemn is because the speaker is left with...
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...Getting a body ready for a funeral visitation is one of the most important jobs of being a funeral home director. This takes a lot of work and time and involves many steps. You first have to embalm the body, glue eyes and mouth shut, dress them, do their makeup, and then putting them into the casket. Doing these steps all together can take many hours and even several days to complete. You just have to make sure you are doing the job correctly. Washing and massaging the body before doing anything else, is a very good thing to do. The body should be completely sanitized and clean before you can make any cuts or incisions on the body. The body should also be clean for the family to be able to look at their loved one. Some examples would be cleaning the inside of the nose, under fingernails, and even their face. When cleaning the inside of the nose, the funeral director will take a special cleaning formula with a q-tip and will dig inside the nose to make sure there isn’t anything inside. When cleaning the nails, the funeral home director will look at both the outside and underneath the nail to make sure there isn’t any dirt. They may even paint the nail depending on...
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...without fault through statutory provision. If two or more persons have contributed to the delict, then they are jointly & severally liable. The injured party can sue one, or all together---and claim full damages. If he only sues one, then the other can recover a contribution from the others according to what the law thinks just: law reform, act 1940. Business contractual relationship (2005) claims that in certain circumstances, someone can be liable for another’s delictual act. This can arise through agency, partnership and employment. In addition, there is no liability for a failure to take due care unless there was a duty to take care in the first place. for example, the provisions of the Health & Safety Act 1974. Although Danny works on the brakes for about 45minutes is enough time. Tom can...
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...around the body. This drug also damages the body’s capacity to fix itself and meth users can develop a disorder called formication. Formication is a constant picking at the skin because of the feeling or hallucination of insects on the body. This drug is used at times to lose weight and seem more attractive but in the process it makes the user less attractive. Hygiene is not an important issue in meth users. Meth users have mouth problems and most users have bad looking teeth. This all happens because of methamphetamine and this is a path that many people chose to take. There are so many other factors that involve this drug and how it affects the brain. (Frontline, 2006) Dopamine is a tremendously important part in how the brain works. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps with the movement of the body as well as other...
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...seeks to explore some the findings on the issues faced by Human Resource Managers and the strategies that can be put forth to cub these issues, following an interview with HR Manager, CARE INTERNATIONAL. Findings on issues faced by the organization Human resource challenges The organizations is faced by human resource challenges in different ways. Recruiting of appropriate and qualified staff is a very difficult task since recruitment panels are so filthy with corruption and bias. This makes them recruit staff who are incompetent in work hence poor performance is inevitable. In some cases, retaining staff in an organization becomes challenging as some of them leave jobs with their own personal reasons or lack of job satisfaction. Finding employees who are loyal and trustworthy has also become tricky to managers and so cases of fraud are so rampant. Employees want the organization to look into the healthcare legislation by providing a healthcare coverage. Staff training is also a very serious issue on human resource since employees want to get more knowledge on their field of work. Cash flow and revenue Cash flow refers to the movement of money in and out of an organization while revenue refers to money that flows into the organization that determines profits. Money flows out to cater for inputs, equipment acquisition and repairs, training new recruits, and even paying wages. Many organizations are struggling to...
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...Date: September 6, 2015 To: All Project Management Staff From: Tia Marina Subject: Tips for Getting Started with Project Management. As everyone knows changes and promotions take place frequently throughout ones career. During this time transitions can be tricky and confusing for some. This is especially so for those who take over new roles of overseeing others within project management. To help in these transitions some information has been compiled and summarized for use. These tips come from article found online called, “Tips I Wish I Knew When I First Began Managing Projects,” by Esther Schindler. So you’re in charge of a new project. The task now is getting everyone on the team headed in the right direction. Some of us have someone we can turn to such as a mentor, and some of us are not so lucky. Without that guided advice, trouble is sure to surface, especially for someone new to the job. So help from some experienced project managers is always helpful especially in the form of advice. First, even if I can do a task better, I must let the junior people do it. Meaning, as being the one in charge watching over the team is the main priority, not doing the job myself. Delegation is not only helpful but it allows the team to learn how to do it as well. This also frees time up to be doing other things that cannot be delegated to others. Next it is also important to know when to fight for more time and budget. Plain and simple you cannot always have it the...
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...including anything from copyrights and patents to trade secrets, customer lists/leads, noncompetition agreements, franchises, and goodwill. The accounting methods for PP&E is very similar to those of Current Assets, though there are significant differences in the costs to be capitalized according to GAAP (the "generally accepted accounting princiapals" as determined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB). Accounting for Intangible assets can be much more difficult, though – often, there are different rules for amortization, valuation, and estimation. For instance, there is much more uncertainty associated with intangible assets, so it’s much more difficult to account for the projected future benefits. According to the Spiceland text, “it’s often very difficult to anticipate the timing, and even the existence, of future benefits attributable to many intangible assets…in fact, this uncertainty is a discrimintating characteristic of intangible assets that perhaps better distinguishes them from tangible assets than their lack of physical subtance,” (Spiceland, Sepe & Nelson, 2011). Intangible assets with lives that have a foreseeable end are amortized, whereas ones with indefinite useful lives are not (Spiceland). Determining whether or not an intangible asset has a limited life or not can be tricky; companies must consider the fact that there may be a similar product or object already in existence,...
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...hardship we may face in our lives. It helps us overcome failures and setbacks. It makes or breaks the habits in failure and success, and it applies to all of us. It is a need we all have in our lives. It is the need for courage. “That's why courage is tricky. I mean any fool can have courage. But honor, that's the real reason you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good. I think that's what the writer was saying. That you should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you want to do have some too.(Atom 1)” This clearly sums up how you define courage, in my opinion. With courage comes honor. When you face your obstacles knowing that they’re going to be hard or tricky, or break a habit that is courage. Although, when you do them the right way and come out on top. That is truly an honor. A person who never...
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...Hi Amira, Thanks for the questions, they’re very interesting and really made me have to think. How many patients do you treat a month from smoking related illnesses? As a medical student I don’t treat patients (yet) but I’ve already seen a number of people at the GP surgery who have ‘chronic obstructive pulmonary disease’ (COPD). This is actually a way more important disease than lung cancer. It makes it incredibly difficult to breath and can lead to death. It is mainly caused by smoking usually starts in your 40s effecting a massive three million people in the UK. Smoking also contributes to a load of other diseases such as heart disease, stroke and multiple cancers. Most of the patients I talk to who have these conditions used to smoke (although not all). However with conditions such as these lots of other factors play their part, such as eating too much fat, being overweight, and not exercising;so you can’t say smoking is the only cause (even though it definitely played a part) As a medical Professional what is your view on smoking? This is a tricky question as I have been an occasional smoker in the past, having completely kicked the habit this year. I used to think it was slightly cool (despite the government warnings). However since seeing so many patients needing a machine to breath, due to smoking, I’ve changed my mind. From a scientific point, smoking is one of the worst things you can do to your body as unlike other legal substance (alcohol...
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...wanted to go to university but after I've taken part in microtyco it has opened up many doors for me I am able to choose to do a school leavers programme instead, and then go to university which is very appealing to me. After my studies I'm planning to take a gap year in which I will gain some more experience in a working environment such as Deloitte. Taking a gap year will provide me with valuable new skills that an employer will be impressed by such as organisational skills and the ability to work independently. As well as this through my gap year I will meet new people from all backgrounds which will improve my confidence when meeting new people. I like the idea of a gap year because it can provide much more than a class room setting, we can learn a lot in a classroom but it isn't until we put it to practise in the real world that we really understand what's going on. I will also be able to learn a lot more about myself and who I am as a person. While taking part in microtyco I have realise that I am very active when I am passionate about a subject so I tried to go to as many classrooms as possible making them aware of women in LDC'S and how their 1p's and 2p's will enable women to get out of a tricky situation. I believe I can be passionate when carrying out task during my work experience at Deloitte this will enable me to get task done quickly and...
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...What did I learn in my second class? I learned that self-concept plays an important role in communication. Thus, what is self-concept?, the book Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication describes self-concept as the relatively, stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself, including in this perceptions is self-confidence. If a person is aware of his/her confidence this person is very capable of understand others and encourage them; consequently communication becomes more valuable and productive. Communicating is not just sending messages or receiving them, is more about the meaning of the words we are communicating, so self-confidence helps the communicator or receiver to opens up about things he/she wants to transmit or receive....
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...Family Business Self-Assessment Family firms, even if often underestimated, are the backbone of the worldwide economy: it is estimated that in U.S. and Canada, the 90 percent of all the businesses are family-owned and the majority of the world’s most successful medium-sized companies are also family firms1. They employ the 48 percent of the work force and produce the 50 percent of the total GDP2. The reasons of the success of this type of business are numerous and different but it is crucial to understand that, the most of the time, it is the family itself the key factor which defines the outcome of the company. Family and business are tightly interconnected and have clear effects on each others, as the first is a precondition of the other: family has influence on the firm’s vision, behaviors, perpetuation, and growth. The dynamics inside the family shape the ones inside the business and it is easy to visualize the opportunities that this added value can create in a working environment: sharing the same values, entrepreneurial culture, mission and beliefs, having a common goal and a long-term commitment can really make the difference in the management of a business. These internal features create something that is perceived also externally, something unique that non-family businesses simply cannot replicate: that feeling of integrity and commitment, that confidence that costumers have in a family name and in a person, that sense of personal involvement....
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