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The theory of everything

"Borders should not exist for the human effort. "

Interview Questions and Answers

 

- Tell me about yourself.
Try starting out by sharing some personal interests which don't relate directly to your work. Be ready to share three or four of the personal qualities, skills and/or areas of expertise which would help you to excel in the job for which you are interviewing. Ultimately, you will want to share several other strengths before the interview is over.

- Describe your work style
When you are asked about how you work during an interview, it's important to impress the interviewer with your comptentency and accuracy, rather than just your speed.

- What did you like or dislike about your previous job? 
When you're asked what didn't like about your previous job, don't be too negative. The reason is that you don't want the interviewer to think that you'll speak negatively about the new job or the company when you're ready to move on, if you get this job.

- Describe your ideal boss
When the interviewer asks about what your ideal boss is like, it could be asked as a reflection upon your past supervisors (who was your best or worst boss) or in terms of your future preferences.

- Why were you fired?
Practice in advance what you'll say. Then keep it brief, keep it honest and keep it moving.That way, you'll get past the sticky issue of getting fired and can move on to your skills and why you're qualified for the job.

- Why should we hire you instead of the other applicants for the job?Why are you the best person for the job?
 “What makes you the best fit for this position?” Your answer to this question should be a concise “sales pitch” that explains what you have to offer the employer.The best way to respond is to give concrete examples of why your skills and accomplishments make you the best candidate for the job. 

- What will you do if you don't get this position?
 The interviewer wants to know whether you are concerned about just the advancement opportunity or the company.

Job interview

The family man: job interview

Peter: Alan this is Jack Campbell, the one i was telling you about
Alan: Oh, of course Jack, Hi
Jack: Mr Vance
Alan: Oh, Just call me Alan we like to cultivate a very casual atmosphere around here
Jack: I can see that Alan
A: Yes what can I tell you, do you have kids?
J: Actually, Yes. Two of them, good ones
A: Great, great. Why don’t you have a seat? Peter mentioned to me that you’re an avid CNBC watcher but he didn’t say whether you had some actual Wall Street Experience
J: Erm. I was a sales associate at EFOA: A broker, really? And now you’re in the tyre business
J: That’s right. And auto supply
A: In the retail end I understand
J: We get about 60% of our business from automotive service
A: And do you mind me asking what kind of sales you did in the last year, just erm, ballpark
J: We did 1.7 total revenue
A: One point seven...that’s great, and what do you project for this year?
J: I think we’re gonna have a better year, sales are up almost twenty per cent in the first quarter, and we just landed a major trucking company account
A: Oh you did? That’s terrific so that puts you just a tad over two million?
J: That’s right, and that would make us number one in our market. Excuse me, I’m gonna get a glass of water ... Look, I know our paltry little 2 million on sales is about what you spend in a year on office supplies, and some regional trucking company is nothing compared to a multibillion dollar merger
A: No no no, I’m not trying to mock the tyre business
J: It’s okay Alan, I get it. I’m in your shoes I’m thinking exactly the same thing but here’s the deal, business is business; Wall Street, Main Street it’s all just a bunch of people getting up in the morning trying to figure out how they’re gonna send their kids to college, it’s just people. And I know people
A: Oh, I’m sure you do
J: Take you for instance, Alan. You have certain energy about you, it’s an active kind of energy. I wouldn’t be surprised if you drank about sixteen diet cokes a day. You’re an excellent father, but you feel guilty about the time you spend away from home. You drink Bourbon, but you offer your clients scotch, and your wife decorated this office.
P: Haha, certainly seems to have your number
J: You’re a little tougher Peter. For one thing, you like expensive things
Peter: That’s easy, you’ve seen my car
J: You smoke Hoyo de Monterrey’s. You’re a scotch man, single malt. Not because its trendy but because you’ve been doing it the last four years and you like to stay with what works. You have two great loves in your life; your horses and this company. And you’re a man who prides himself in finding talent in unusual places
P: How would you know that?
J: Because I’m here, and I’m prepared to do whatever it takes to get this job. I’ll start wherever I have to start, I’ll park cars if I have to, the biggest part of judging character is knowing yourself and I know this: I can do this Job, I can. Give me a chance Peter, I won’t let you down

Applying for a job

C/ Maria sevilla diago 

Madrid

28022

23 Jan 2015

Laura López Perdiguero

Dear Madame:

I am writing because I would like to apply for a post as interior designer in your architecture firm.
My father is an architect who belongs to the field of the design. He always used to show us his designs and were delighted to see them, that was the reasion why I started to be interested in that career, which was what I liked the most.

I am 18 years old and this year I will finish the High School. After summer, I´m going to go to the University for studying interior design. I am looking fowqard to beginning.

The job would help me, without any doubt as experience for my career and for my future too.

I am from Madrid (Spain) but I wouldn´t find any problem to work in Bristol, at the same time my english would improve, it would be great!

I agree with the salary, despite the fact I perfectly know that it would be a temporal job for just only three months, I wouldn´t mind.

I eagerly hope your answer.

Sincerely yours

Curriculum Vitae

LAURA LÓPEZ PERDIGUERO

Nantes 24

698753518, lauralopez@gmail.com

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Professional Profile

At present I´m studying second of bachillerato in IES Las Musas. Before I have studied in Montpellier School since I was 3. I´m 18 year old and next year I will study economics at university. 

Employment history

I have been working at breadshop since 1 year.

I have been working as cashier in zara´s shop
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I have been giving private class to children

Achievements

I get children to pass their falling grade.

Education & Qualifications

2000-2013 Primary education and Compulsory Secundary Education at Montpellier School

2013-2015 Baccalaureate at IES Las Musas.

Hobbies & Activities

I like dancing. 

I go swimming at the morning before taking classes. 

Some times I go to play futball.

Quotes of recommendation

To study at the Montpellier´s School

Nuclear power vs solar power

Writing in The Wall Street Journal this week, two environmentalists with the Breakthrough Institute, a pro-nuclear think tank, made the vital point that, for many environmentalists, has been hiding in plain sight for years. That point, articulated by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, is basically the following: anyone legitimately concerned about both the climate and the cost of energy cannot be against nuclear power located here on earth, at least in the near term.  

Their case basically goes like this: Some leading environmentalists in the fight to save the planet from breakaway global warming say nuclear power can’t be the answer because it’s too expensive (or because it’s unsafe, but that’s for another discussion). These green campaigners, like Bill McKibben, say renewables like solar power are our only hope and they point to Germany to illustrate the possibilities of a rapid shift to renewable energy sources.

What Nordhaus and Shellenberger lay out is the glaring contradiction of this position, by, basically, just noting that the assumption it's built on is not true. Germany’s solar panels are far and away more expensive per unit of electricity produced than any fleet of nuclear plants (unmentioned is the fact that Germany’s shift over to solar has also included a significant shift over to exceptionally dirty coal). Their words below…

“The cost of building and operating the Finnish nuclear plant over the next 20 years will be $15 billion. Over that time period, the plant will generate 225 terawatt-hours (twh) of electricity at a cost of 7 cents per kilowatt hour.

Since 2000, Germany has heavily subsidized electricity production from solar panels—offering long-term contracts to producers to purchase electricity at prices substantially above wholesale rates. The resulting solar installations are expected to generate 400 twh electricity over the 20 years that the panels will receive the subsidy, at a total cost to German ratepayers of $130 billion, or 32 cents per kwh.

In short, solar electricity in Germany will cost almost five times more for every kilowatt hour of electricity it provides than Finland's new nuclear plant.”