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Tag Archives: PSC

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My experiences learning French: Part 3 – Return to Asticou

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December 7 2015

I had been back at Asticou about five weeks when I realized that the passive receiver of language learning was not working for me, and I spent a weekend thinking about some of the challenges I had gone through in the previous year. I kept coming back to the tutor’s analysis — I wasn’t letting go.… Read the rest

Posted in HR Guide | Tagged Asticou, CIDA, French, learning, PSC, public service, tutor | Leave a reply
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My experiences learning French: Part 2 – My first tutor

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December 6 2015

Even though all of us said that we weren’t ready (My experiences learning French – Part 1), the school sent us for the oral test.

And all of us except one failed. The one who passed? The weakest one among us. Partly as her “stories” for telling what she did for a living were pretty simple in comparisons — she was a clerk who did very basic admin work.… Read the rest

Posted in HR Guide | Tagged Asticou, CIDA, French, learning, PSC, public service, tutor | 2 Replies
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My experiences learning French: Part 1 – Intro to Asticou

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December 5 2015

I am a not a linguist by anyone’s definition. I’m not very eloquent in speaking English, let alone any other language. I can write pretty well in English, and I edit even better, but other languages were never my strength. I grew up in Peterborough, which was not exactly the hub of linguistic diversity.… Read the rest

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Priority referrals from PSC: A new pilot project…

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January 23 2012

It’s not that often that you see the Public Services Commission doing something innovative, but a new pilot project that starts today may qualify. And with all things HR-related, the impact may turn out to be either good or bad for employees on a referral list, depending on how the theory translates into practice.… Read the rest

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