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D E C E M B E R Happy Birthday Denise, Rachel & Suhayr! What drew you to Core? Denise: I saw recruiting as an opportunity to be more involved in the actual studies (which were already interesting), and an opportunity to keep growing in a company I greatly enjoy working for. Rachel: I never thought about recruiting as an interest of mine until I was the president of my college's leadership honor society and had to recruit the student executive board. I found that I was good at picking apart people's answers to surveys and interview questions. For the first part of my college career I thought that I wanted to be a clinical psychologist, but on a whim I took an Industrial/Organizational Psychology course in my sophomore year and was hooked. In that class, my professor spoke about companies that specialize in human factors and mentioned Core and that it was a great company to work for. I never thought about it again until after I graduated and saw a...

N o v e m b e r Happy Birthday Adam, Andrea, Erin, & Marc!  What drew you to human factors and what drew you to Core? Adam: Human factors is one of those wonderful fields that brings together a diverse group of people to learn from one another. As a human-factors engineer (or “engineering psychologist” as my alma mater called it), I saw an opportunity to apply engineering principles to help people by working directly with the people who could benefit most from these principles. Take a typical usability study of a medical device used by patients, for example. In such a study, I get to work directly with product designers, marketing specialists, and clinicians, literally and figuratively on one side of the glass and with the patients (the study participants) on the other side of the glass. One minute I’m learning from the patients about the product, seeing it through the patients’ eyes; the next minute, I’m learning about the design of the product, seeing it through the...