The phrase "a ready candidate" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is well-prepared and suitable for a particular job or position. Example: "John was a ready candidate for the manager position, with years of experience and excellent leadership skills."
Mr. Creighton, who is also the nonexecutive chairman of the oil company Unocal, appeared to be a ready compromise candidate.
In this effort, directors have to remember that the search for a "ready now" candidate is a fool's errand.
As I wrote in my previous article, "Succession Planning: How Everyone Does It Wrong," there is no such thing as a "ready now" candidate.
Via mentoring, training, networking, and job search help, CivCom strategically identifies what each military candidate considers fulfilling work and turns them into an "offer-ready" candidate for that work.
Via mentoring, training, networking, and job search help, CivCom strategically identifies what each military candidate considers fulfilling work and turns them into an "offer-ready" candidate for that type of work.
We don't have a ready-made candidate and a chairman who has no credibility".
Paradoxical and elusive, the bank robber Willie Sutton would appear to be a ready-made candidate for a smart, kaleidoscopic novel along the lines of T. Coraghessan Boyle's "Road to Wellville," Don DeLillo's "Libra" and James Ellroy's "L.A. Confidential," or even for a crafty biopic with the chameleonlike spirit of Todd Haynes's "I'm Not There," in which six actors play aspects of Bob Dylan.
He'd never resign, but if he does not make it to 2010, Republicans have ready candidates who have been waiting since 1956 the last time a Republican won a Senate election here to go for a promotion.
Are you ready, candidates?
No one is irreplaceable and the "leaving" card should be called by more boards -- even in pay negotiations -- through proper succession planning, that is to say internally ready candidates at all times.
