Clearly the organisation is worth joining and you are very fortunate to have been selected for the long short list. As the next step you have been asked to amplify your application by answering the following questions designed to tease out the extent to which your personal ethos and working style will be compatible with the cultural priorities for your would-be employer.
The questions below are reproduced in their original form as part of a letter from the company’s PPP director:
1. Explain what you think it means to conduct yourself as a ‘professional’, not just generally but with specific reference to ‘professionalism’ within the HR function.
2. In this company we expect every employee, and we do mean every employee, to be a ‘thinking performer’. So if you were to join us we would expect you to exhibit the characteristics of a ‘thinking performer’ yourself. Explain what in your opinion the concept means and why it is a model which should be applied to every employee.
3. Show how you could exemplify the principles of ‘professionalism’ and the practices of a ‘thinking performer’ in your everyday actions as an HR Advisor. Take two typical scenarios in which you might expect to become involved as an HR Advisor and indicate how you could act professionally and as a thinking performer in these situations.

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