Meaning-Making Dynamics of Job Interview Performances

Behavioral interviewing has become a popular technique used across fields to assess the fitness of job seekers (Roulin & Bangerter, 2012; Powers, 2000). This particular style of interviewing calls on the interviewee to narrate their prior experiences in the workforce, with the idea that past behavior on the job is prelude to future job performance. The answers (stories) follow a specific format in order to be considered successful, one that adheres to the style and organization of the dominant Discourse (Gee, 1989). However, storytelling is a culturally situated practice and candidates from diverse backgrounds may construct their narratives outside of the format favored by employers. The purpose of this research is to examine the ways in which individuals with different socioeconomic, linguistic, racial and ethnic backgrounds construct narratives while answering job interview questions. Posing interview questions to job candidates who are currently receiving workforce development training to prepare for interviews as well as talent recruiters for job placement firms who interview job seekers for placement purposes allowed for comparison between narrative structure and content of different socioeconomic, linguistic, racial and ethnic groups: those who are currently studying to acquire credentials and become apprenticed in the dominant Discourse and those who work in talent management and recruitment and are fully conversant in the dominant Discourse. Analysis of the format and content of interviews from the two distinct groups showed marked differences in both format and content between interviews that exemplified the favored dominant Discourse and those that represented a variety of different Discourses. This leads to the conclusion that behavioral interviewing may hamper efforts to diversify the workforce, if candidates with different socioeconomic, linguistic, racial and ethnic backgrounds are being excluded from jobs based on the way they narrate responses to behavioral interview questions

The Philosopher\u27s Character and Praxis

Not inappropriately, as an invitation to conversation, the title of this colloquium — “The Philosopher: Neutral or Committed? — is ambiguous and provocative. For one, the word “neutral” opposes “committed,” thereby suggesting the conflation of the meanings of “neutral” and “uncommitted,” as the latter is the formal opposite of committed. To understand the meaning of “uncommitted” as positive hostility and abnegation of political action, however, would bring forward few advocates: Diogenes or Sinope, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche come to mind

Effect of an Individualized Treatment Protocol on Competency Restoration in Pretrial Forensic Inpatients.

Competency to stand trial refers to a defendant\u27s ability to consult with his attorney with a reasonable degree of factual and rational understanding of the proceedings against him. If declared incompetent to stand trial by the courts, judicial proceedings are postponed until a defendant\u27s competency deficits are remediated. However, there is a paucity of data on treatment of individuals who have been declared incompetent to stand trial. This study evaluated the effectiveness of individualized treatment on competency restoration in pretrial patients. This investigation improved upon previous group treatment studies, all but one of which were uncontrolled. Treatment groups were: Deficit-Focused Remediation - DFRT (6 individual sessions + 4 group sessions; N = 8), Legal Rights Education Control - LRE (6 individual sessions + 4 group sessions; N = 10), and Standard Hospital Treatment - SHT (4 group sessions; N = 8). Results indicated no significant baseline differences among groups. All groups differed significantly from pretest to posttest on competency measures. The DFRT and the LRE groups both demonstrated significantly greater post-treatment scores on competency measures than the SHT group. Both groups demonstrated approximately 50% more improvement on the competency measures than the SHT group. There were no significant differences between the DFRT and LRE groups on post-test competency scores, indicating that focus on individual deficits is not a useful treatment strategy. Results demonstrate more frequent individualized legal rights education is a worthwhile endeavor in treatment of incompetency. Limitations and parameters of this study as well as applications and future directions are discussed

Czasopisma ewangelickie w Polsce po 1989 roku

The work presents the phenomenon of the dynamic development of the Evangelical press, understood here mainly as the press of the Lutheran community, which was initiated as a result of the political transformation in 1989. Small in number, i.e. about 80,000 people, the community of Polish Evangelicals, whose press activity during the Polish People's Republic was limited to two press titles, accepted the challenge and in a relatively short time created a dozen or so significant magazines, many of them, not only religious, but also socio-cultural or scientific ones. All of them were published continuously for at least a few years and some for a dozen or so years. The paper presents the role of Lutheran culture and Protestant spirituality, including the culture of the Word, which in favorable conditions resulted in the development of periodicals. The research covered the years of dynamic development of evangelical periodicals: 1989- 2014 when most of the Lutheran press titles flourished. The dissertation on the background of the history of Lutheranism indicates the changes that have occurred in the development and typology of confessional periodicals the dynamics of development and a map of the press. The publishers and editors of journals are presented. There has been conducted the analysis of the press content, and on this basis the typology and functions of the considered periodicals were established. Apart from the periodicals published under the patronage of the Church, the authors discussed the independent press initiatives of secular evangelicals, often interfaith titles that contribute to the culture of Christian communities. The forms of distribution of magazines were presented especially parish distribution, advertising and promotion of selected titles, as well as forms of communication - the dialogue between publishers and their readers and the reception of magazines by the readers themselves. The functions of magazines were defined, as well as the role of magazines for a community living in a dispersed life and for contemporary culture. It also showed the forms of presence and availability of the Lutheran press in secular libraries, bookstores and on the Internet and in the case of more historic titles more and more often in electronic archives. Ultimately, an attempt was established to compare the phenomenon with the familiar phenomenon of the heyday of the Catholic press. It was also indicated that with the generational change and the development of the Internet, the role of the press, including the press created by the social and cultural evangelical environment and addressed to this environment, gradually began to decline, in favor of small environmental local newsletters close to the reader

Detection and Analysis of Carbonyl Compounds in Rural Cloudwater

A new technique for aqueous determination of aldehydes and ketones was field tested along with a new technique for ambient air analysis. The work was done during the summer of 1984 on Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington, NY. Both techniques utilized carbonyl derivitization as their 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazones and subsequent analysis by reversed phase HPLC. Analysis of the blank levels for the ambient air method shows the levels found to be non-detectable. The aqueous method worked well. Formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acetone were the only species found in cloud water. They were generally present in concentrations between .5 uM and 4 uM. Little fluctuation was observed throughout the sampling period. These data were then incorporated with routine data collected on cloud water and a kinetic analysis was performed

Disaster Recovery: Guidance for Donors

This guidance paper goes above and beyond what donors can learn--or already have learned--from a handful of excellent guides developed by the philanthropic community since Hurricane Katrina. Much of this literature on "disaster philanthropy" has been directed at the most effective ways for donors and their agents to deliver assistance during unfolding crises and the immediate aftermath, and how donors and their agents can help provide food, water, clothing, shelter, sanitation, health care and self-governance for masses of displaced and traumatized people. Here, we discuss innovative and under-appreciated ways that donors can help American communities recover and rebuild resiliently from disasters. The goal is to give donors a fresh perspective on supporting local efforts not only to rebuild from disasters already sustained, but also to prepare to recover from potential disasters. In both cases, there are opportunities for donors to directly fund, or pool and leverage funds for a variety of recovery and rebuilding activities, programs and services

Dimensions of Time

Humanities Research Group Working Papers 8 Time: whether we’ve too much time on our hands or no time to stop and think, whether time flies or marches slowly, whether we are clock watchers or don’t own a watch, perennially late or inevitably early, the nature of time preoccupies us all. It is fitting, then, that this volume, the last to appear in the century beginning with “nineteen,” should take as its theme “Dimensions of Time.” This volume, as have all in the series, examines a topic of contemporary interest from a variety of historical and disciplinary perspectives.https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/hrg-working-papers/1007/thumbnail.jp