R. developed, Africa began to be decolonialized throwing the economic and political situation out of balance, the Korean War brought the United States into another global conflict, tensions heated up in Egypt (the Suez Canal Crisis) and Cuba (Castro and the Cuban Revolution), and America went through a turbulent time with Anti-Communist feelings and Senator Joseph McCarthy's accusations and focus on "reds in the State Department" (Halberstam, 1994, intro
Additionally, this campaign, like no other before it, utilized social networking groups and software to put the candidate in touch with the constituents. For the first time in history, the candidate was more than a voice on television -- he was accessible, he commented regularly, and he was "just like the rest of us" (Ifill, 2009)
What possibly made the Civil Right's Movement of the 1950s so important is not necessarily what battles were won, but what preparations were made as the decade drew to a close. (Jackson, 2006, inclusive)
Whatever the reason, the 2008 campaigns perceived SNSs as a direct, unfiltered access point to the electorate. Unlike traditional news media in which "gatekeeping" filters out most candidates' access and notoriously negative news packages outnumber politicians' positive aspects (Johnson, D
Unlike traditional news media in which "gatekeeping" filters out most candidates' access and notoriously negative news packages outnumber politicians' positive aspects (Johnson, D., 2009), SNSs enabled candidates to directly approach their electorate, especially young voters, admittedly a marginalized but substantively important group that would critically affect the outcome of the campaign (Kaye, 2009)
Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not have been the nominee" (Arianna Huffington in Schiffman, 2009). Each time the racial card came up in the campaign, Obama's staff downplayed it -- each time he was asked, Obama remarked to the effect -- this isn't about race, it's about change" (Lum, 2009)
"I still can't quite wrap my mind around it," Hughes says. (McGirt, 2009)
Thanks to previous Civil Rights advocates, and people like Jesse Jackson, Obama was not the first minority to attempt a high political seat. This is even more important when one realizes the election was not won on race, but on a combination of issues appropriate focus on sections of the electorate in which his message resonated (Metzler, 2008)
That means everybody has to listen, and everybody has to give a little. That's not easy to do (Obama, 2008)
Because Democratic state delegate contests are decided by a form of proportional representation and popular vote number were so close, the contest continued into June. However, with the help of multiple super delegate endorsements, Obama became the first African-American to win the nomination of a major political party (Price, 2008)
Thus, there are four main aims of political advertising: 1) to influence issues, giving information, simplifying data, etc.; 2) showing the candidates at work with the public, bringing the personality of the candidate into the living room; 3) building image and accessibility; 4) information about the differences between candidate and opponent (Roberts, 1997)
The success of the Obama campaign in utilizing SNSs may also be the result, not only of his message and personality, but because Chris Hughes, one of the four founders of Facebook, left the company in 2007 to specifically work on the Obama New Media Campaign. (Stelter, 2008)
King believed if enough people openly disobeyed, albeit peacefully, unjust laws and actions, those laws would fail. (Vanoue, 2002, 14-18)
Once the right people are found and oriented, the process of creating an effective work team has begun. "Leaders need to take an active role in assuring that new team members -- be they from outside the organization or promoted or transferred from within -- get off to a strong start" (Byham n
The highly successful Internet search engine company Google has long been noted for taking an iconoclastic and idiosyncratic approach to the interview process and its striking 'what if' questions. "For years, Google's most famous and feared hiring strategy was asking applicants questions that were seemingly impossible to answer, like, 'How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane,' and 'How many gas stations are in Manhattan?'" (Lapowsky 2013)
"For years, Google's most famous and feared hiring strategy was asking applicants questions that were seemingly impossible to answer, like, 'How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane,' and 'How many gas stations are in Manhattan?'" (Lapowsky 2013). Although some employers swear by personality or cognitive tests (Taylor 1998) Google places less emphasis on data-driven metrics (including GPA and transcripts) and instead attempts to determine if the candidate is 'Googly' -- i
if we weren't in business together? If the answer is no, then we wouldn't hire them. There are companies that focus on work-life separation or work-life balance and at Zappos we really focus on work-life integration and at the end of the day it's just life" (Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the art of great company culture, 2013, KISS metrics)
In this day and age, the website is the starting point for most applicants. This is an ideal opportunity for organizations to get across which behaviors and working principles are important to the business" (Weyland 2011)
Interviews should be highly structured and targeted, given the specific skills demanded of these new engineers. It has been noted that "structured interviews (systematic, patterned interrogation with a specific set of questions) demonstrate a substantially higher validity than unstructured interviews" (Wright & Domagalski 2010)
Finally, before they speak with candidates, interviewers themselves should be briefed so they can present a positive and welcoming view of the firm in terms of their demeanor and attitude towards candidates. Each representative of the firm is a "potential ambassador" to new recruits (Yamamura, Birk, & Cossitt 2010:59)