Using the job spec, think about what questions you would ask an interviewee if you were the potential employer and prepare responses for those. This will give you valuable information about the job and help you prepare examples of how you?ve done similar tasks/jobs successfully. It?s also useful to contact the company (using the contact details provided on the advert) to find out more about the position. It will give you an idea as to what will be expected of the person who wins the position and what kinds of questions you?ll be asked during the interview.įor example, if the job description lists managing staff, it?s likely you?ll be asked about previous experiences of managing staff, resolving disputes, or staff recruitment. Take time to learn and understand what type of person and skills the company is looking for. Wondering how to prepare? Here are a few tips to help you along your way… 1 Research and understand the job/position The good news is that a successful interview has a lot to do with preparation and research, so you can take action beforehand to give yourself a good chance of landing the job. The pressure of landing your dream job and making a good first impression can be quite stressful! Interviews are a nerve-wracking experience for the vast majority of us.
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She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference between one’s own needs and the desires of others. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. Freidans work demonstrates the role of wonder in generating new philosophical insights it is precisely when we do not initially. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as mad” or bad.” Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. So….do you know that slightly disorienting feeling you have when you are looking out a window & suddenly the lights shifts, your perspective shifts, and you realize you are seeing your OWN reflection? That is the experience I had when reading Focused. Her latest novel is about a gutsy, chess-loving, 7th grader named Clea who is learning to cope with her ADHD. This is episode #71 and today and I’m sharing with you a conversation with Alyson Gerber – author of Braced and the recently released Focused. But if you live near a Wegmans, you can order one! And just in case you are wondering – no, I did not make it. Yesteday we celebrated her birthday with the most amazing cake – white with whipped cream frosting and layers of cannoli filling and raspberry filling inside. I’m your host, Corrina Allen – an elementary school teacher in Central New York and mom of two daughters – a 9 year old and a just turned 12 year old. Hi everyone and welcome to Books Between – a podcast for teachers, parents, librarians, and anyone who wants to connect kids between 8-12 to books they’ll love. Website Facebook Twitter I nstagram Goodreads This is a heart-pounding, timely, and completely immersive read. Silas House, author of “Southernmost,” has this to say about the book: “Terry Roberts’ new novel is a literary thriller of the highest order: lyrical and suspenseful, with characters you will long remember. Yet when he arrives at the isolation hospital, he discovers an inexplicable string of deaths and disappearances among immigrant patients…and a staff that seems to be hiding a chilling secret. Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding missing persons, is assigned the case. New York Harbor’s immigration and public health authorities are slowly recovering from the war years when a young, pregnant Irish woman disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island. In this episode 262, we visit with Terry Roberts, author of “My Mistress Eyes are Raven Black,” a literary mystery that explores the disturbing lengths some people will go to protect racial purity and condemn those that are different, the ones they fear. Podcast: Download (Duration: 40:56 - 37.5MB) During and after Scott's year-long mission, the brothers were studied to find differences between living on Earth and in space He returned to Earth on Maafter 340 days in space. In 2015, Scott Kelly began a mission spending a year in space on the International Space Station. The Kelly brothers are the only siblings to have both traveled in space. Kelly's identical twin brother, Scott Kelly, is also an astronaut. His wife's shooting led to a broad national conversation ranging from the duties of a husband to what is acceptable civil discourse. After the shooting, in which six people were killed, both Kelly and Giffords were thrust into the media spotlight. His wife was the target of an attempted assassination in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011. STS-134 was his final mission and the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour. He was selected to become a NASA Space Shuttle pilot in 1996 and flew his first mission in 2001 as pilot of STS-108. He is the husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, an author, political activist, and aerospace executive and consultant.Ī naval aviator, Kelly flew combat missions during the Gulf War. Mark Edward Kelly is a retired American astronaut, engineer and U.S. He is currently serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and a Fellow for IDEO, the design consulting firm. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms. In 2009, he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup and the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned.He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. This event marks the publication of Eric Ries new book The Lean Startup. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late. The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. But most of those failures are preventable. Speaker(s): Eric Ries | Most new businesses fail. Forced together for survival, Angie and Dare must confront hard feelings, a blinding storm, and a growing attraction-while a desperate killer and a ferocious five-hundred-pound beast stalk their prey.īONUS: This edition contains an excerpt of Linda Howard and Linda Jones's Running Wild. Luckily, Dare is camping nearby and comes to her aid. Then a bear comes crashing through the woods-changing the dark game completely. But the adrenaline-fueled adventure turns deadly when Angie witnesses a cold-blooded murder and finds herself on the wrong side of a gun. Before Angie leaves town, she organizes one last trip into the wilderness with a client. The infuriatingly attractive Iraq war vet even had the nerve to ask Angie out, not once but twice. Prey by Howard, Linda Seller Lorrin Wong, Bookseller Published 2011 Condition A clean fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket. Three years ago, Dare returned home to rural Montana and opened a hunting business to rival Angie’s own, forcing her to close up shop. Thirty-two-year-old Angie Powell has always spoken her mind, but in the presence of Dare Callahan she nurses a simmering rage. This is high adventure and nonstop romantic suspense.”- Bookreporter Above the water, the sound is more public as if it were to do with a communal consciousness.” The trio of musicians perform music to be heard both under water and above. “When you’re underwater, sound is perceived through the bones. “The novel was a very attractive to me because it deals with the desire to go back to the primordial amniotic world, to go back to being drowned.”īut what’s also important for Cahen are the differences between hearing above and below water. What is the appeal of water-based performance art? Joel Cahen of Wet Sounds reminds me that we begin our lives surrounded by liquid, perceiving vibrations and sounds. “I’ve played all kinds of weird events,” says Andrew Wright, a fellow member of Chelmsford’s Resonance arts collective, “but never with this much water.” Who knows what we’ll encounter in this simulation of a lagoon above the submerged ruins of London? “There’s no real precedent for anything like this,” says Chris Adam, one of the three musicians who have composed a synthesiser score for the adaptation. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardianįinally, a municipal charon allows us into the water. Participants wait to enter the water for The Drowned World at Riverside leisure centre in Chelmsford. She runs for many reasons-to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school she’s been sent to ever since she and her little sister had to stop living with their mom. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons in this New York Times bestselling follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Ghost by New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds. Miscavige Hill's story suggests that the open society we inhabit still includes enclaves where authoritarian religious values are forced on innocent children. And maybe I can get to people who are inside, and plant a seed of doubt." "I hope to discourage new people from being lured into Scientology, as well as helping people whose loved ones are in there. "I want to turn this horrible part of my life into something that has a good purpose," she says. For an insider to speak out is rare, but her testimony is rarer still: Groomed for leadership from earliest childhood, she says she has direct experience of the church's indoctrination process and can speak with personal authority about an upbringing in which child labour, family separation, arbitrary punishment and psychological bullying were sanctioned by the church. Miscavige Hill says Scientology makes it hard for devotees to leave the faith, and most who do depart go quietly, since the church threatens its dissidents with severe reprisals. |