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STUDENT A: MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS

You and your partner are medical students who love mountaineering and have decided tooin a volunteer proect in !epal" The proect will start in #une and last $or seven wee%s"You would like to work in a Governent !o"#ital in $ok!ara.Try to persuade the othercandidate with your arguments" &elow you have some ideas to help you 'ut you can addyour own"

(ho%ara is the second largest city o$ !epal"

The hospital is 'usy with many departments thatvolunteers can wor% in"

The government $unded the hospital"

(art o$ your volunteering $ee )*++,- is used as adonation to the hospital"

. way to e/perience how the !epali healthcaresystem wor%s"

0ery challenging conditions"

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STUDENT %: MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS

You and your partner are medical students who love mountaineering and have decided tooin a volunteer proect in !epal" The proect will start in #une and last $or seven wee%s"You would like to work in a !ealt! &a# in a reote rural area.Try to persuade theother candidate with your arguments" &elow you have some ideas to help you 'ut you canadd your own"

You can 'e vital in providing the 'asic care needed $orlocal people una'le to otherwise visit a hospital orclinic at all"

Teaching 'asic $irst aid 2 medical education to thepopulation and doing 'asic testing )e"g" 'loodpressure 'lood glucose hearing- and so on is a must"

Each camp is around 345 volunteers usuallyaccompanied 'y either !epali doctors or a translator"

Tre%%ing to di$$erent locations and then setting up thecamps is common"

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STUDENT A: SECURITY O%SESSED

You and your partner are security o'sessed" You %now 7uite a lot a'out cy'ercrime andcan give some advice to your partner" Convince the other candidate with your argumentsand give e/amples to persuade him8her" &elow you have some ideas to help you 'ut youcan add your own"

Increased connectivity 'rings increased ris% o$the$t $raud and a'use"

&rowser users could 'e opening themselvesup to we' hac%ers and spies 'ased only ontheir ha'its"

Malicious actors can operate $rom anywhere inthe world"

(rotective measures9 use encryption tools hiresecurity services erase cache and history data

a$ter use ma%e sure your devices have anvi4virus and other anti4malware so$tware installedand updated"""

:ow can a consumer tell whether the we'app code etc" is $rom a company they trust oris a $orgery;

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STUDENT %: SECURITY O%SESSED

You and your partner are security o'sessed" You %now 7uite a lot a'out personal securityand can give some advice to your partner" Convince the other candidate with yourarguments and give $irst4hand e/amples to persuade him8her" &elow you have some ideasto help you 'ut you can add your own"

In maor cities in the age o$ terrorismsomeone is almost always watching"

(rotective measures9 I$ you have 'urglaralarms use them< develop a rapport with yourneigh'ours< while you=re away purchasetimers to turn on outside and inside lightsautomatically at various times< when in yourcar always %eep the doors loc%ed and thewindows up"""

Stationary surveillance is most commonlyused 'y terrorist organi>ations so 'e alert todisguised people"

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STUDENT A: 'AC(ERS: T'E GOOD) T'E %AD AND T'E UGLY

Your organisation is hiring a security consulting $irm whose mem'ers o$ sta$$@s'ac%grounds include more than a $ew illegal activities" Discuss with your partner thearguments $or allowing such people access to your networ%" &elow you have some ideasto help you 'ut you can add your own"

:ac%ers provide advice on networ% security"

They have learned usually mostly through trialand error allthe little Atric%s o$ the tradeA"

. goodhac%er really loves the challenge andspends many hours per$ecting how to 'rea%into networ%s"

They wor% cheap 4 or at least at a lower salarythan the computer science (h"D"

It is compulsory to have the hac%er covered 'yan employee dishonesty8$idelity 'ond"

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STUDENT %: 'AC(ERS: T'E GOOD) T'E %AD AND T'E UGLY

Your organisation is hiring a security consulting $irm whose mem'ers o$ sta$$@s'ac%grounds include more than a $ew illegal activities" Discuss with your partner the

argumentsagainst allowing such people access to your networ%" &elow you have someideas to help you 'ut you can add your own"

I$ hac%ers have never 'een arrested orconvicted what proo$ do you have that theyare really a hac%er at all;

Bhether the hac%er is completely re$ormed isan important matter"

:aving a criminal on'oard may not set well

with your clients" It@s a position o$ trust that carries a great deal

o$ responsi'ility"

I$ they get 'ored hac%ers might decide toperuse the personnel $iles ust $or $un"

Social engineering is the art o$ manipulatingpeople they might sell your data to yourcompetitors"

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STUDENT A: EM$LOYEE $ERSONALITY TESTS

Your organisation is hiring new sta$$ and the 'usiness owners suggested using employeepersonality tests to see i$ potential and current employees are right $or their company" &elow youhave listed the pros to using a personality test with o' applicants and are discussing these withthe 'oard )your partner-"

I$ ta%en 'e$ore an interview personality tests help in narrowing theselection o$ candidates as it gives an insight into the characters o$all applicants"

The test can also aid in helping managers decide which 7uestions

they should as% the candidate when they do come $or an interview"

Candidate s%ills and a'ilities can o$ten 'e overloo%ed on a C0 or

$ace4to4$ace however a personality test o$$ers a deeper insight into

how they might $it into a company wor% culture"

There is o$ten a lower turnover o$ sta$$ within a company i$

applicants have traits similar to the rest o$ the wor%$orce"

(ersonality tests usually detect interpersonal characteristics that

may 'e re7uired $or some o's"

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STUDENT %: EM$LOYEE $ERSONALITY TESTS

Your organisation is hiring new sta$$ and the 'usiness owners suggested using employeepersonality tests to see i$ potential and current employees are right $or their company" &elow youhave listed the cons to using a personality test with o' applicants and are discussing these with the'oard )your partner-"

Some personality assessments can ta%e a lot o$ time and e$$ort tocomplete which may dissuade a potential candidate $rom going$urther with the application process"

.n applicant=s e/perience and training may con$lict with the results

o$ the test and there$ore ma%e it more di$$icult $or a manager to

decide how to proceed"

More o$ten than not applicants answer personality tests 'ased on

pleasing the interviewer or 'y what is socially accepta'le which

discredits the test"

There could 'e a lac% o$ diversity in the wor%$orce i$ all employees

have the same traits"

(ersonality tests can 'e e/pensive $rom paying $or the tests to

paying someone to score the tests"

Even i$ an applicant answers the personality test per$ectly this

does not mean that they are the right $it $or the o'"