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The state of Washington Department of Personnel has recently launched a new Internet based tool to provide hiring managers throughout state government with virtually instant certification of highly qualified candidates for employment. The new Internet Application system allows simultaneous on-line application submittal, screening and testing, scoring and notification, eligibility list placement, and referral for interview. It is a revolutionary improvement over the traditional recruitment and selection system, and reduces recruitment cycle time from several weeks to one or two hours. Certifications are tailored to fit key skill requirements provided by the hiring manager and can be customized for each position. The Internet Application system provides job seekers a very convenient and easy-to-use means for submitting an application from any place, at any time. The implementation of this initiative is crucial to fulfilling one of the Department's highest priority goals of having high quality, diverse, and available job candidates ready for managers to hire in the shortest time possible. Internal operational efficiencies and cost savings are other key benefits of the new Internet Application system.

The first social history of Scottish policing since 1900Geographical coverage of both rural and urban areas (including the Highlands and Islands as well as the Glasgow conurbation)Focuses on social identities and the dynamics shaping police-community relationships across timeContextualises Scottish experience in relation to broader comparative frameworksIncludes much content not previously covered from a Scottish perspectiveThe first UK study to compare the practices, cultures and repertoires of uniform policing in urban and rural areas in the 1940s-70sThis book examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the 20th century, demonstrating patterns that were diverse and variegated. It considers both the formal rhetoric (and sets of structures) that defined and prescribed the policing ideal as well as the experience of policing from a range of grassroots' perspectives. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, oral history interviews, and memoirs, as well as previously unused primary sources, the author identifies and explains the factors that led to not only co-operation, consensus and the building of trust, but also points of tension and conflict across a century of social, political and technological change

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Understanding Racism in Scotland -- Part I: The Historical Legacy of the British Imperial State -- CHAPTER 1 Nationalism and Scotland's Imperial Past -- CHAPTER 2 'Britishness', the UK State, Unionism, Scotland and the 'National Outsider' -- Part II: Anti-Irish Racism and Sectarianism -- CHAPTER 3 The Irish Experience in Historical Perspective -- CHAPTER 4 The Contemporary Position of Irish Catholics in Scotland -- CHAPTER 5 The Trouble with Sectarianism -- Part III: Contemporary Racisms, Anti-racism and the Policy Field -- CHAPTER 6 What do we know about BAME Self-reported Racial Discrimination in Scotland? -- CHAPTER 7 Cultural Racism and Islamophobia in Glasgow -- CHAPTER 8 Sites, Welfare and 'Barefoot Begging': Roma and Gypsy/Traveller Experiences of Racism in Scotland -- CHAPTER 9 Racism and Housing in Scotland -- CHAPTER 10 Changing the Race Equality Paradigm -- CHAPTER 11 Race, Ethnicity and Employment in Scotland -- Conclusion: No Problem Here? -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.

This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective. The approach offered here is that of 'longue durée' analysis, whereby the far-right is understood as an evolving subject of capitalist modernity. The authors argue that an assessment of the contemporary characteristics of the far-right needs to consider the ways in which it is a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political developm