Topic: Interview Questions for Employment

Below are questions that I will need answered for a job interview coming up.

Below are the references that you will use:

-Resume (attached)
-Questions to be answered
-Website of the company that is featuring the employment opportunity:

http://www.eqcadvisors.com

-Job Description:

Please answer the following questions thoughtfully, completely, & with accuracy. Also, answer the questions as it pertains to my resume (recruiting experience), the company & the job description:

€¢If you have experience in recruiting, how do you find prospective candidates? Most favored practices, tools, resources?

€¢Describe one of the most difficult customer/client service experiences that you’ve ever handled, ex. someone extremely demanding or irate. Explain what you did, how the person reacted and how it was/wasn’t resolved.

€¢Although these positions are not commission-driven, we are required to be persistent and persuasive in our outbound calls. Have you had outbound call experience and what did you like or not like about it?

€¢Describe a time when you had to go above and beyond the call of duty in order to get a job done.

€¢How do you define success? Give an example of one of your successful accomplishments.

€¢What has been your most rewarding accomplishment?

€¢How would others describe your personality and work style?

€¢What would a previous manager say re: your strengths? €¦weaknesses?

€¢Have you managed staff? How many at most? What did you like and not like about managing individuals?

€¢In the workworld, what drives you?

€¢What are your career goals?

€¢Under what circumstances do you become discombobulated at work?

€¢As a search/research consulting firm, we bill an hourly fee for our services. Therefore, yield for research investment is critical to the success of our firm. Can you simul-task and how would you describe simul-tasking in an office environment?

€¢What % of your time is spent writing client reports, candidate summaries, etc, and how would you rate the quality of this work on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being highest)? Are you asked to check/edit the work of others? Please describe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Topic: Morality and Religion

 

 

 

Part 1. explain the central features of the divine command theory, as articulated by Rachels. What is know as the Euthyphro

 

Dilemma? Do you think the arbitrariness problem is a fatal objection to the divine command theory or do you think the

 

central features of the divine command theory can be salvaged? If so, how?

Part 2. What are the precepts of the natural law, as developed by Aquinas. Rachels notes, official moral teaching the

 

Catholic Church rests on Aquinas’ theory of natural law. Rachel says, The official position of the Catholic Church is that

 

the use of artifical birth control impedes God’s plan for sex (procreation and unity), and is therefore wrong. Explain the

 

Church’s argument for this claim. Do you think procreation and unity are the only legitimate uses for sexual intercourse?

 

Rachels argues that the theory of natural law is to two serious objections. Explains these objections.

 

 

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LEG153 Introduction to Administrative Law 2012

Essay Question

 

Decision-makers must be able to gather and analyse relevant information, observe any legal requirements and properly apply

 

any policy.’ (The Queensland Ombudsman Good Decision Making’ p.2)

€¢ Explain with reference to the readings (weeks 1-8) why these principles so important, how do they achieve fairness,

 

accountability, the most reliable decision?

€¢ Applying these principles identify the particular administrative problems or mistakes in at least two of the problem

 

scenarios we have considered in class and suggest how those mistakes might have been avoided or remedied.

 

The scenarios include: Pete and Reachout, Karen and the DSS, the Migration Review Tribunal video (weeks 2-4), Max Crane’s FOI

 

application the detention of Cornelia Rau (weeks 7-8).

 

How to approach the question:

You should give equal attention to both parts of the essay question and remember that they are interconnected. Your essay

 

does not need to be divided into two distinct parts, you may choose to demonstrate why these principles are so important and

 

how they achieve fairness, accountability and reliability by combining your discussion of the readings and the problem

 

scenarios.

Your essay must discuss Australian administrative law, discussion of administrative law or decision making practices in other

 

countries should not be included in your paper.

Depth of research:

To write this assignment you will need to be familiar with The Queensland Ombudsman’s Good Decision Making’ guide posted in

 

the folder of notes in the week one topic What is Administrative Law?’ on the unit web page and available via the following

 

link:

Your essay cannot simply be based on your own opinion you must refer to academic work on the nature of fairness,

 

administrative law, accountability and reliability.

Your lecture notes are only a place to begin your thinking, you must move beyond the lectures and consult the academic

 

reading.

In addition to the Good Decision Making’ guide, your lecture notes, and the LEG153 text book (Douglas, R. (2004)

 

Butterworths Tutorial Series €“ Administrative Law 2nd edn), you are expected to engage with at least four separate articles

 

of academic merit relating to the topic (each individual extract in the Unit reader counts as a separate article). If your

 

essay does not meet this requirement it will fail.

Where to find useful academic sources:

As well as the readings in your Unit Reader there are a range of texts available through closed reserve in the library which

 

relate to Administrative Law (check the LEG153 or LAW258 listings). The introductory chapters in those texts include

 

discussion of what administrative decision making requires and the sorts of factors administrators must take in to account

 

when making administrative decisions. Each of the administrative law text books also include extracts from academic articles,

 

books and government reports on the fundamentals of good decision making and suggest further reading.

The following books are particularly useful:

€¢ R. Creyke and J. McMillan Control of Government Action LexisNexis Butterworths (2005) (the chapter on merits review

 

includes extracts from a wide variety of sources €“ you should not only read the extracts but seek out the entire article from

 

which the extract is taken)

€¢ Cane, P. & L. McDonald Principles of Administrative Law: Legal Regulation of Governance Oxford University Press (2008)

€¢ Douglas, R. Douglas and Jones’s Administrative Law (5th or 6th Edn), (Federation Press, 2006) (by the same author but a

 

much more expansive book than the LEG153 set text)

€¢ AIAL Forum is available in electronic form through the library catalogue and includes a wide range of interesting

 

commentary.

You may find some of the academic writing unfamiliar and difficult that is why the essay is not due until week 12, so you

 

have plenty of time to identify and start working through the relevant reading.

TIP €“ if you leave it till the last minute to start your research most of the books will be unavailable because other

 

students will be using them!

 

Assessment criteria for essay:

€¢ The essay should be written in grammatical plain English, follow the guidelines set out below regarding word limits and

 

format, and be referenced according to standard citation criteria.

€¢ Your discussion should consider the essay topic in light of evidence and argument discussed in relevant academic

 

commentary.

€¢ The essay should demonstrate your ability to evaluate evidence and the validity of arguments and to make a reasoned choice

 

between arguments, while taking into account objections and alternative viewpoints.

 

€¢ The essay must have a coherent structure which avoids repetition. Use paragraphs to separate your discussion of specific

 

issues or points, while indicating clearly how each of the points of your argument are linked or relevant to one another.

€¢ Your essay must be properly referenced, which includes any material you source on the internet. Please refer to your

 

Foundation Unit study guide, the Library Guide to Academic Referencing’ or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)

 

https://mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/AGLC3

€¢ In order to avoid plagiarism, footnotes should be used in the following instances:

o When quoting directly from another’s work (which should also be acknowledged by the use of inverted commas around the

 

quote)

o When paraphrasing the statements of others

o When discussing the theories and opinions of others

o When presenting information which is not a matter of general knowledge

 

Format:

Essays must be submitted in hard copy on single sided A4 paper, in 12 point font, with at least 1.5 line spacing and

 

sufficient margins to allow hand-written comment by the marker.

 

Attach a cover sheet and make sure you keep a hard copy and an electronic copy of your assignment

 

Word length 1500 words

Proportion of final grade: 40%

 

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Topic: Nature versus nurture

 

 

 

By now we have some background ideas to use in thinking about specific bioethical issues. Topics 3, 4 and 5 are concerned with issues affecting human beings. If we look at the contents of journals and books dealing with bioethics, it is clear that human issues centre on actions taken at the beginning of life (such as the termination of a pregnancy) and at its end (such as euthanasia). Topic 3 is concerned with questions of genetic engineering, and is thus focussed on events before birth.

 

At the moment, genetic engineering (GE) is in the realm of possibility rather than reality. Researchers are hoping to be able to influence the human genotype to alter the phenotype of an individual. It is important that we keep in mind the fundamental differences in the ways that such altering can be done.

 

In negative genetic engineering, the idea is to remove or repair mutated or flawed DNA to prevent an individual being born with a defect or disease. This possibility has been given a great boost with the completion of the Human Genome Project, where we can now begin to identify the gene or genes responsible for the problem.

 

In positive genetic engineering, the idea is to augment or enhance existing positive characteristics such as intelligence or memory or physical attractiveness, to produce an individual who therefore possesses those traits to a greater degree than they would have otherwise.

 

Please take some time to discuss the following question in your discussion group.

 

 

 

Discussion question 6

 

Try and link these three ideas together: the aims of ethical research, the nature of the Good Life, and genetic engineering. Try and demonstrate a consistent, logical viewpoint in terms of these three ideas. That is, show how your views on the specific research called genetic engineering can meet your understanding of the aims of ethical research, and could be a means of achieving the Good Life.

 

It might help your thinking if you try and imagine how potential parents might answer the question, if you are not one yourself. Most parents would clearly prefer a healthy child. But if you could also ensure your child was highly intelligent, would you take that option? How about a child that was very talented musically?

 

Part of our thinking about GE may be influenced by our answers to another, related question: what kind of people should there be? That is at least part of the answer to the Good Life; what kind of people would we be surrounded by?

 

 

 

Nature versus nurture

 

Before we go any further it is necessary to think clearly for a moment about how we view the relative importance of genetics and environment on the development of the child. How important are the genes we inherit, and how important is the parenting and other social factors we are subjected to as children?

 

A full discussion of this issue is well beyond the scope of this course. One of the latest and best popular books to deal with this topic of nature versus nurture is Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate, published in 2002 by Penguin books. Pinker looks closely at the two main ways humans have been viewed throughout history. In one picture, we are considered to have a definite human nature, like any other animal, that is determined largely by our genotype. We inherit our major personality traits, IQ, abilities and limitations, and there is little that society can do about it. Pinker favours this view, and gives an extensive list of the attributes that all human from every culture share. He does not deny the value of good parenting for making a difference, but argues that the difference is built on what is possible given the child’s genetics.

 

On the other side are those who have considered us to be born with a virtual blank slate upon which the culture can write anything it likes. We are then the products of our upbringing and our culture, and the influences we have from our parents and peers are crucial for making us who we are. This has been the dominant view for several generations now, and lies behind all the concerns with proper parenting, protection of the child from sterile or impoverished environments, and the feeling that people from different cultures really are different from us in ways that need to be respected but are arbitrary. It implies that if you want to make the world a better place you should change the educational and social environment is which people live.

 

The genetic view is gaining strong support from recent studies in sociology and evolution. Indeed, one of the strongest supporters of the nurture view, Peter Singer, has publicly admitted it is time for the social change people to recognise what evolution has to say about human nature and what it is capable of and not capable of. In an article titled Darwin for the Left’, he states that:

 

It is time for the left to take seriously the fact that we have evolved from other animals; we bear the evidence of this inheritance, not only in our anatomy and our DNA, but in what we want and how we are likely to try and get it.

 

He ends the article with these words:

 

In a more distant future we can still barely glimpse, it may turn out€¦.a new kind of freedom: the freedom to shape our genes so that instead of living in societies constrained by our evolutionary origins, we can build the kind of society we judge best.

(Peter Singer, Prospect Magazine; www.prospect-magazine.co.uk)

 

Singer is calling for genetic engineering, in other words, though it is not clear if he is advocating positive or negative forms. Perhaps both are in his mind. What he is concerned with is that the formation of the best possible society (part of the Good Life as we’ve called it here) cannot be done given the realities of our genetic nature. The philosopher Immanuel Kant summed up this fear in his famous saying, From the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can be made.’

 

Discussion question 7

 

Where do you stand on the question of nature versus nurture? In order to attain the best possible society in the future, do you think we must contemplate some form of Genetic Engineering?

 

Given the above, consider the following hypothetical situation I’ve called The Genetic Supermarket

 

Suppose that within the next decade or two the free market combines with the knowledge gained through the Human Genome Project to produce a kind of genetic supermarket in which any prospective parents can€”for a fee€”go to the Genetic Services Centre of their choice, and select embryos with specified desirable genetic characteristics, or can even have the genetic constitution of their own embryos altered in a variety of ways.

 

You have already thought about this in terms of your own views. But here are some other perspectives we need to take into account as well.

 

First of all, just because it is possible, should it be made legal? That is, should the State intervene to prohibit the provision of such services? The state had intervened in other scientific activities such as cloning or euthanasia, even when these are possibilities. What we are asking here is the role of government in this activity. Should people have the right to this service if they want it?

 

Now assume for a moment that such a service was both possible and legal. The next question is, who should have access to it? Again, the government has given itself the right to limit access to some medical procedures such as IVF to non-gay couples. Should the service be available to all? If so, there is the question of financial cost. If it is seen as a valuable resource for all couples wanting to have a child, should it be paid for by the government to make sure it is accessible to all?

 

Thirdly, who is responsible for this service? Private industry or government? Who determines what limits can or should be placed on what genetic alterations will be offered? Should we simply let business competition decide on the quality of the outcome? Should the government regulate it somehow? Who takes the blame when something goes wrong? What if the parents get something they did not ask for?

 

Putting the questions this way turns our attention to the social and legal side of such a possibility. After all, we and our children will have to bear the costs as well as share in any benefits of such technologies. We will look more closely at these issues in topic 4.