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This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age “Elegiac and witty.”—Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, “The Best Poetry of 2022” “These poems name the hurt wrought upon the meek that makes the elegy, here, as much an exaltation of the living as a mournful dirge for the land.”—Major Jackson, Vanderbilt University The 116th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Robert Wood Lynn’s collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia’s famed cryptid) reluctantly coming of age in that state’s mountains and struggling with the utility of warnings. These are narrative poems of love and grief, built from a storytelling tradition. Taken together they form an arc encompassing the experience of growing up, looking away, and looking back.

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When applying for a new job or promotion many people face the rigours of an assessment centre. Many organisations, in both the public and private sectors, use these extended forms of assessment for selection purposes to guarantee they pick the candidate who will be the best fit for the company. However candidates often fail to do themselves justice as they are unaware of the different type of assessment tasks they may have to undertake. How to Succeed at an Assessment Centre provides ideal preparation for assessment events and gives expert advice on all the key issues such as how the assessments are conducted, how to behave in formal and informal situations as well as how to prepare for the different forms of assessment. With a plethora of practice questions, answers and explanations, How to Succeed at an Assessment Centre gives essential practical advice on the many different assessment processes, from group exercises to panel interviews and presentations.

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Much has been written on the various methods of recruiting andselecting staff, including how competencies, increasingly thebuilding blocks of the recruitment and selection process, fit in.What, however, the personnel professional faced with recruitingwants to know is how to apply these mysterious methods. This bookaims to do just that. Specifically, it provides a step-by-stepguide for the recruitment, selection and assessment of candidatesand includes: * the best practice aspects of recruitment and selection * the practical considerations important when implementing aprocess * leading edge, unreported methods developed in the field. HR managers will find this enlightening and instructive bookenormously useful in their day-to-day functions. "For what isprincipally billed as a guide, the authors have provided acomprehensive and up to date collection of recruitment andselection practices with some valuable critiques of some of themore mysterious processes in use." Richard Donkin, Financial Times"Overall, it was refreshing to read a book that comes down firmlyon their (competencies) side it forces you to take a fresh look atyour current practices and to question how they are used." SueSimons, People Management

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