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What is intersectionality? What are your thoughts on privilege? Here's my question: what do these easily Googled terms have to do with completing a compelling and successful fundraising document? No questions about target audiences, no questions about past proposal experience, no questions about experiences with potential non-profit partnerships.
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Grants/Proposal, Writer

Interviewed at Atira Women's Resource Society

3.2★
Jun 16, 2022

What is intersectionality? What are your thoughts on privilege? Here's my question: what do these easily Googled terms have to do with completing a compelling and successful fundraising document? No questions about target audiences, no questions about past proposal experience, no questions about experiences with potential non-profit partnerships.

->this test cosists of foll: a. 12 words -are given and u have to form a short essay out of these words: for ex:call,present,follow, respond, concern,part,absorb,,etc.. b. precis writing- there was a passage about sea turtle.. i had to write it in 150 words. c. 9 sentences are given.you have sequentially arrange them. There were paras about organizing content..(logical, webs,hierarchy..etc) d. then there are 4 visual images given: u hv to narrate a short story about it.: like the first image was that of two tennis players,then the second image consisted of girl holding the racket, then the third girl falls and injures herself, then the fourth medical help is called, then the fifth she wins the match. e. then words are given , you have to draw an image that comes to your mind or describe them: for ex: personal-professional balance, fractio 1/2= fraction 4/8, data security, team conflict, boiling point freezing point f. from a 3rd standard classbook, concept of perimeter is mentioned: the concept is described, you have to frame quiz questions (2 question s have to be formed along with the answers) All the best!!
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Content Writer

Interviewed at Praxis Interactive Technologies

2.8★
Jul 4, 2013

->this test cosists of foll: a. 12 words -are given and u have to form a short essay out of these words: for ex:call,present,follow, respond, concern,part,absorb,,etc.. b. precis writing- there was a passage about sea turtle.. i had to write it in 150 words. c. 9 sentences are given.you have sequentially arrange them. There were paras about organizing content..(logical, webs,hierarchy..etc) d. then there are 4 visual images given: u hv to narrate a short story about it.: like the first image was that of two tennis players,then the second image consisted of girl holding the racket, then the third girl falls and injures herself, then the fourth medical help is called, then the fifth she wins the match. e. then words are given , you have to draw an image that comes to your mind or describe them: for ex: personal-professional balance, fractio 1/2= fraction 4/8, data security, team conflict, boiling point freezing point f. from a 3rd standard classbook, concept of perimeter is mentioned: the concept is described, you have to frame quiz questions (2 question s have to be formed along with the answers) All the best!!

Unexpected: Brought into an impromptu meeting with the owner and a couple of engineers. Owner directed one of the engineers to get a manufacturing SOP he had recently created. Since that was one of the tasks I was going to be hired to do (and it was currently being done by the engineers), the owner asked me to look at the SOP and "judge" how good it was. (Oh, with the engineers sitting right there.) Needless to say, this was a very uncomfortable situation, without an easy "win." ~ If I decided it was "crap," I would immediately alienate/undermine/embarrass the very engineers that I would potentially be collaborating with if I was hired for the job. If I decided it was "great," I would potentially be eliminating ME!
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Senior Technical Writer

Interviewed at Marlyn Nutraceuticals

2.9★
Apr 19, 2014

Unexpected: Brought into an impromptu meeting with the owner and a couple of engineers. Owner directed one of the engineers to get a manufacturing SOP he had recently created. Since that was one of the tasks I was going to be hired to do (and it was currently being done by the engineers), the owner asked me to look at the SOP and "judge" how good it was. (Oh, with the engineers sitting right there.) Needless to say, this was a very uncomfortable situation, without an easy "win." ~ If I decided it was "crap," I would immediately alienate/undermine/embarrass the very engineers that I would potentially be collaborating with if I was hired for the job. If I decided it was "great," I would potentially be eliminating ME!

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