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The phrase "applicant for a post" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to job applications or recruitment processes.
Example: "The applicant for the post of marketing manager submitted an impressive resume and cover letter."
Alternatives: "candidate for a position" or "job seeker for a role."
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One response to these examples is to identify the most qualified applicant for a post as the one whose hiring will do most to advance the morally legitimate purposes of the enterprise.
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Arizona State in 2014 specified that applicants for a post at its new Center for Political Thought and Leadership display a focus on "the relations between free-market institutions and political liberty in modern history," which came suspiciously close to the mindset of the Koch family, which had contributed $1.3 million in seed money for the center. .
However, the negative information posted about Phil was directly related to the kind of criteria that typically would be used in considering an applicant for a faculty position.
"In R&D, we have as many as a hundred applicants for a job posting.
Adams was announced as manager of Port Vale in June 2009, having been a late applicant for the post vacated by Dean Glover.
The hurdles are worth negotiating for anyone who likes the stimulation of a multilingual, multicultural environment, says Aurélien Juliard, a successful applicant for a recent batch of 200 posts.
Even Vic Goddard, the charismatic head of Passmores academy of Educating Essex fame, said on the Victoria Derbyshire show last month he had had "no applicants whatsoever" for a maths post and so will be teaching year 11 maths himself.
There are regularly more than 10,000 applicants for a single government post in Meerut.
In a move his opponents call both shrewd and cynical, Terry E. Branstad, the Republican governor, pushed aside more than a dozen applicants for a high-paying post on a state board and instead recruited a moderate Democrat, Swati Dandekar, who happened to be a state senator from a Republican-leaning district.
One rejection letter among the many I received thanked me for being part of a "remarkable cohort" of more than a thousand applicants for a single faculty post.
For example, less than 1.8% of new training posts in the UK are for psychiatry and competition ratios are nearly 5 applicant for every 1 post [ 10].
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