Paying It Forward: Who Does This?

Paying it forward experiences sometimes make the news when an exceptionally long line of drive through customers decide to utilize upstream reciprocity, aka Pay It Forward (PIF), as in an example from December of 2012 at the Tim Horton’s in Winnipeg when 226 customers each individually paid for the order of the customer behind them in line (Tsvetkova and Macy 2014). But in most cases, the experience involves far fewer customers and is much less newsworthy. Nevertheless, paying it forward is a phenomenon that warrants investigating to understand the moti vations and attributes that contribute to the activity, possibly to use to engage customers and/or employees in other aspects of a customer and/or employment experience. To that end, a survey was used to investigate and gain preliminary knowledge of pay it forward activities. The instrument included a short scenario with 4 levels of cost/benefit manipulation, a measure of other possible attributes contributing to the pay it forward decision, a gratitude scale and demographics. Attributes possibly considered in the PIF forward decision and gratitude scores did not have the same impact on the PIF decision as did the cost/benefit information given to the respondents

College Students Use Social Networking Sites for Sharing with Friends, But Guess Who Else is Looking?

Abstract - Jobvite, a recruiting platform for the social web, reports from their annual 2012 survey of recruiters that 92% of U.S. companies are using social networking sites (SNS) for hiring purposes (Jobvit, 2012). Career Builder reported in 2009 that 45% of employers were using SNS to screen and research applicants (CareerBuilder, 2009). It is important that faculty and support staff working to place students, and the students themselves, understand the developments and practices in the use of social networking sites for job search and recruiting and the best methods, as well as detriments when marketing themselves. This study examines corporate recruiters’, operating on a college campus, behaviors and attitudes toward the use of social media in recruiting

Job Shadowing Experiences as a Teaching Tool: A New Twist on a Tried and True Technique

Job shadowing has a long history of utilization. It is primarily considered a way for youth to become aware of the world-of-work through programs sponsored by schools or social organizations. For example, Junior Achievement International, in cooperation with several government agencies, has sponsored Groundhog Job Shadow Day for nearly 20 years. A quick internet search for job shadowing yielded over 24 million hits with the vast majority of those focused on programs aimed at high school students. Internet offerings detail anecdotal accounts of experiences, methods for setting up and executing programs, and extolment of the virtues of shadowing as a tool for high school students to prepare for college career direction. Other internet offerings focus on employer-developed programs aimed at internal advancement or as a recruitment tool for potential employees. There has been very little published addressing the use of job shadowing at the college level. Yet, job shadowing can be a great tool for college students to explore potential careers prior to committing to a specific major. This project details a pilot program in which professional selling students engage in a job shadowing experience that yields not only personal experience for themselves, but that also generates information which can be used as a teaching tool for all students

Observations of the high vibrational levels of the B′′B̄ 1Σu+ state of H2

Double-resonance laser spectroscopy via the E F 1Σg+, v\u27=6, J\u27=0-2 state was used to probe the high vibrational levels of the B B-bar 1Σu+ state of molecular hydrogen. Resonantly-enhanced multiphoton ionization spectra were recorded by detecting ion production as a function of energy using a time of flight mass spectrometer. New measurements of energies for the v=51-66 levels for the B B-bar state of H2 are reported, which, taken with previous results, span the v=46-69 vibrational levels. Results for energy levels are compared to theoretical close-coupled calculations [L. Wolniewicz, T. Orlikowski, and G. Staszewska, J. Mol. Spec. 238, 118 (2006)]. The average difference between the 84 measured energies and calculated energies is -3.8 cm-1 with a standard deviation of 5.3 cm-1. This level of agreement showcases the success of the theoretical calculations in accounting for the strong rovibronic mixing of the 1Σu+ and 1Πu+ states. Due to the ion-pair character of the outer well, the observed energies of the vibrational levels below the third dissociation limit smoothly connect with previously observed energies of ion-pair states above this limit. The results provide an opportunity for testing a heavy Rydberg multi-channel quantum defect analysis of the high vibrational states below the third dissociation limit

Observations of the high vibrational levels of the B′′B̄ 1Σu+ state of H2

Double-resonance laser spectroscopy via the E F 1Σg+, v\u27=6, J\u27=0-2 state was used to probe the high vibrational levels of the B B-bar 1Σu+ state of molecular hydrogen. Resonantly-enhanced multiphoton ionization spectra were recorded by detecting ion production as a function of energy using a time of flight mass spectrometer. New measurements of energies for the v=51-66 levels for the B B-bar state of H2 are reported, which, taken with previous results, span the v=46-69 vibrational levels. Results for energy levels are compared to theoretical close-coupled calculations [L. Wolniewicz, T. Orlikowski, and G. Staszewska, J. Mol. Spec. 238, 118 (2006)]. The average difference between the 84 measured energies and calculated energies is -3.8 cm-1 with a standard deviation of 5.3 cm-1. This level of agreement showcases the success of the theoretical calculations in accounting for the strong rovibronic mixing of the 1Σu+ and 1Πu+ states. Due to the ion-pair character of the outer well, the observed energies of the vibrational levels below the third dissociation limit smoothly connect with previously observed energies of ion-pair states above this limit. The results provide an opportunity for testing a heavy Rydberg multi-channel quantum defect analysis of the high vibrational states below the third dissociation limit

Observations of High Vibrational Levels of the 4fσ 41Σ+ u State of H2

Resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionization via the EF 1Σg+, v′ = 6 double-well state has been used to probe the energy region below the third dissociation limit of H2 where several high vibrational levels of the 41Σu+ state are expected. Theoretical ab initio potential energy curves for this state predict a deep inner well and shallow outer well where vibrational levels above v = 8 are expected to exhibit the double-well character of the state. Since the 41Σu+ state has f-state character, transitions to it from the ground state are nominally forbidden. However, the d character of the outer well of the EF 1Σg+ state allows access to this state. We report observations of transitions to the v = 9–12 levels of the 41Σu+ state and compare their energies to predicted energies calculated from an ab initio potential energy curve with adiabatic corrections. Assignments are based on measured energies and linewidths, rotational constants, and expected transition strengths. The amount of agreement between the predicted values and the observations is mixed, with the largest discrepancies arising for the v = 9 level, owing to strong nonadiabatic electronic mixing in this energy region

Job Shadowing Experiences as a Teaching Tool: A New Twist on a Tried and True Technique

This article reports an innovative twist on the use of the job shadowing experience as a means not only to provide real-world exposure for the student, but also as a way to generate real-time data from the professionals to be utilized as a basis for class discussion. Reaction from both students and professionals has been overwhelmingly positive