Your company is preparing a job offer letter for a candidate. Your boss asks you to draft a letter that includes no room for negotiation. What type of offer should you make?

Which of the following may impact contract renegotiation?

Amy has been asking her boss for a raise for the past 6 months. Her boss could technically grant Amy’s request (she is, after all, the highest performer on the team and has not received a pay increase in 2 years). However, the boss decides to deny Amy’s request, and Amy puts in her 2-week notice after finding a better job. What type of turnover describes Amy’s situation?

Describe different ways of combining candidates’ scores on different assessment methods to calculate an overall score.

Many companies use software to maintain _________________________ as an internal assessment method, outlining which employees have certain skills, competencies, and other relevant job characteristics.

While working on a team project, the lowest performer in your group walks out. What type of turnover occurred?

Erin is a more senior employee at the local bank. Recently, she has started helping one of the new hires, April, learn the ins and outs of how to do her job well. Erin and April are involved in a reciprocal relationship aimed at career development. Erin provides April with career guidance and psychosocial support, while April provides Erin with a fresh perspective on a job she’s always loved. What internal method is being leveraged here?

Jana is an environmentalist who reduces, reuses, and recycles. She recently joined a company where employees do not recycle. Instead, the company promotes single-use plastic and encourages employees to do the same. Jana is likely to experience ______________ because her values and perceived obligations are incompatible with the needs and prevailing views of the work environment.

One of the biggest challenges in genetics is to determine the relationship between genetic variants and phenotypes. To learn more about these relationships, researchers often sequence the DNA of individuals and then analyze the DNA variant data. For this exam, you will be provided with DNA variant data for four individuals from the same family: a mother, a father, a son, and a daughter. The DNA variant data are provided in Variant Call Format (VCF) files. Like we’ve discussed in the course, VCF files contain multiple “metadata” or header lines that each start with one or more # characters. The remaining lines contain variant data: each variant is listed on a separate line. The CHROM column indicates the chromosome name, the POS column indicates the chromosome position, the REF column indicates the reference allele, and the VAR column indicates the alternative (variant or mutated) allele. So, if I say an “A” is mutated to a “T”, then “A” will appear in the REF column and “T” in the VAR column. The FILTER column indicates whether or not each variant passed the quality-control test. Variants that passed the quality-control test have a value of PASS. Variants that failed the quality-control test have a value of NO PASS. The variant-data columns are tab-delimited. Below are two (small) example VCF files. (Even though the columns may not line up perfectly on the printed page, the variant columns are separated by single tabs.) You do not need to do any error checking on command lines, and all files are tab-delimited. You cannot assume that all characters in all files will be uppercase or lowercase. Example VCF files (note that on the computer, the columns may not line up perfectly visually, even though they are still separated by a single tab): VCF_file1.vcf ##header line 1##other stuff that you don’t have to know##another header line##blah blah blah#CHR      POSITION  REF  VAR  FILTER   chr1      3675      a    g    PASS     chr1      3789      T    G    pass     chr7      787879    T    C    NO PASS  chr7      787882    C    A    PASS     CHR10     6321      A    C    PASS     chr11     55        T    C    PASS      VCF_file2.vcf ##header garbage##other stuff that you don’t have to know and is really annoying##another header line##blah blah blah##who thought of this file format anyway#Chr      POSITION  REF  VAR  FILTER   chr1      3675      A    G    PASS     chr1      3789      T    G    PASS     chr7      787879    T    C    PASS     chr7      787883    C    A    PASS     chr11     55        T    C    PASS     chr22     54321     G    C    NO PASS  

A patient with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is unaware of what is causing the disorder. What is a recommendation that they should do in order to find the culprit?