Stephanie Ruhle

Every year, deans of admissions are pushed: 'Did you increase the number of applicants? Did you decrease the acceptance rate?' And it's an institutional priority for colleges and universities to look for students that are going to have a philanthropic family that could give to that school.

American Journalist

Robert Pozen

America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

American Businessman

Jeffrey C. Hall

In my day, you could get a faculty job with zero post-doc papers, as in the case of yours truly; but now, the CV of a successful applicant looks like that of a newly minted full professor from olden times.

American Scientist

Ryan Holmes

Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.

Canadian Businessman

Henry Spencer

NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA's problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.

Canadian Scientist

Des Browne

The process of establishing the identity of passport applicants needs to be strengthened by introducing a requirement for some applicants to attend a passport office in person.

British Politician

John Hickenlooper

When I opened my first brew-pub, I did not include a checkbox on hiring applications that required applicants to disclose criminal convictions. And we were better for it.

American Politician

Robert Kennedy

It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

American Producer

S. Truett Cathy

We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.

The term 'applicant' is often used in formal settings where a process requires selection from candidates.

Formal Contexts

Using 'applicant' implies the person is in the midst of a process, like hiring or enrollment.

Process Involvement

The word 'applicant' can suggest competition as the person is often one of many seeking the same opportunity.

Competition Implied

 when you look at the skills that these people had when they came in the door you've gone from an environment where pretty much everyone had done fairly advanced programming in the beam programming maybe for a decade at the point where they came in the door at 18 to a world in which many of our applicants had only ever written the web

Raspberry Pi: engaging...

 conversation you ever have so no pressure right it's okay couple of reasons why I do think that this is really important number one this is something that can really set you apart from the crowd and we all know that there's a lot of job applicants out there right now number two it's expected

Put those smartphones...

 and not officially recognized as a refugee until the application has been accepted. While countries by and large agree on one definition of refugee, every host country is responsible for examining all requests for asylum and deciding whether applicants can be granted the status of refugee.

What does it mean to be...

 it occurred to me there's a way to fix this problem. And here's what we could when people apply to college, we distinguish between the applicants who are good enough to be successful and the ones who aren't, and we reject the ones who aren't good enough to be successful,

What role does luck play...

 having a good diploma is not enough. Our psychologists undergo a test and a case study interview, including ethics questions, because the client's safety is the priority. The sad truth is that only around 15 percent of applicants

How to Alter the...

 It would be trained to look for people to learn what led to success, what kind of applications historically led to success by that definition. Now think about what would happen if we applied that to a current pool of applicants.

The era of blind faith...

 in the tearing URI region applicants people and Wildlife funds we're leading a four-step process for big tax conservation starts with putting out fire conflicts with our living walls projects is way of reinforcing people's

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 in overall fitness, but more importantly, in how they police. The law-enforcement community is admittedly experiencing a recruitment crisis. Yet, if they truly want to increase the number of applicants, they can.

How policewomen make...

 to be sure they're not screwing up, not closing doors, not ruining their future, some hoped-for admission to a tiny handful of colleges that deny almost every applicant.

How to Raise Successful...

 I asked her why she wanted to come to SOLA, which is a question I ask all our applicants. She said, "I have dreamed of this.

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