Reflect on the job you currently have or jobs you have held in the past. Based on what you have learned, what strategies did the organization use during the selection and hiring process? What do you think was successful and what do you think could have been improved to make the process better for you as the prospective employee and for the organization itself?
Sample Solution
The organization I currently work for used an online application system to review resumes and backgrounds, followed by a series of face-to-face interviews with the hiring manager and other staff members. Before making the job offer, they invited me for a tour of their facility, answered any questions I had about their culture, and provided me with a detailed overview of their benefits package. The process was successful in that it allowed me to become familiar with the company before entering into employment there and gave them a chance to get to know me as an individual. It also enabled them to access my skillset prior to accepting the position.
Sample Solution
The organization I currently work for used an online application system to review resumes and backgrounds, followed by a series of face-to-face interviews with the hiring manager and other staff members. Before making the job offer, they invited me for a tour of their facility, answered any questions I had about their culture, and provided me with a detailed overview of their benefits package. The process was successful in that it allowed me to become familiar with the company before entering into employment there and gave them a chance to get to know me as an individual. It also enabled them to access my skillset prior to accepting the position.
Lamb, S (1997) portrays the idea that poor literacy and numeracy achievement is linked to early school leaving and periods of unemployment. Evidentially, having the key fundamental skills in numeracy and literacy are essential. Students should not be able to leave school without the very minimum knowledge to be able to implement these skills in all aspects of life. Quinn, R (2011) stated that literacy and numeracy are amongst the most important life skills that schools teach. Without these skills, students would not be able to access the different subject areas; moreover be successful and have a positive effect on society. The importance’s of these skills are the responsibility of each individual subject area and should not just be thought of as being a focus for the English and Mathematics departments.
Numeracy is defined as ‘the ability to use mathematics in everyday life’ (National Numeracy, 2015). Not being able to apply mathematics in life would result in not being able to carry out the simplest of tasks needed every day. For example, being able to count change or telling the time. Besides, regardless of the subject, the National Curriculum states that being confident in numeracy and other mathematical skills is a necessity to help students be successful across the curriculum. (DfE, 2014, p.9). Undoubtedly, by incorporating basic numeracy skills in my lessons, I am not only preparing students to be successful in education but for everyday life tasks.
In the activities to be conducted, a basic knowledge of numeracy is crucial in order to solve simple programming tasks, where students are required to use standard arithmetic operators and data types. Furthermore, students need to know about these basic skills for example; adding or subtracting two integers together in order to be able to work out whether the output from their program is correct before executing it. The National Curriculum framework says that:
