In some Asian or South Asian countries it is actually perceived as rude and inappropriate for an applicant to make eye contact with his or her superior.
It remains to be seen how many of these groups actually deserved the benefits of Section 501(c)(4) that they were seeking, but it does appear that some inappropriate ideological screening of applicants went on.
The applicant was inappropriate for the position, as I imagine many people are, sighted or not.
Such questions are inappropriate, the panelists agreed, but applicants should expect interviewers to probe them in order to assess their commitment to the job.
Otherwise, a focus on a candidate's "fit" may lead to hiring people "just like us," to the inappropriate exclusion of other highly qualified applicants for reasons that are not strictly professional.
Paul Dillane, from the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group, argued that procedures used to determine an applicant's sexual orientation were inappropriate.
While White admitted that applications were tracked for their political ties, he denied that there was inappropriate pressure from trustees and senior administrators to admit certain applicants.
Sometimes the applicants are not the only ones making inappropriate comments or butchering the English language.
More than 10% of the applicants had a least one supporting letter containing inappropriate material for the decision at hand.
► When Science Editor-in-Chief Marcia McNutt was "asked to review 60 proposals from graduate students for small research grants," she noticed that "[m]ore than 10% of the applicants had at least one supporting letter containing inappropriate material for the decision at hand," and all of those applicants were women.
