He who aspires to access a position or position is mentioned as a candidate.
A candidate is the person who aspires to access a certain position, honor or dignity . Said candidacy may be proposed by the candidate herself or by third parties.
For example: “The businessman announced that he will run as a candidate for deputy in the next elections,” “The people's candidate is Carlos Bianchi,” “The debate ended with insults and accusations exchanged between the candidates.”
The concept, coming from the Latin candidātus , was born in Ancient Rome , when tribunes used a white toga during their political campaigns to generate a good impression among citizens. The word candidātus , therefore, was linked to the person dressed in white and ended up referring to anyone seeking a position.
Candidate in the workplace
Within the workplace, it is common to use the term candidate. Specifically, this is used to refer to all those people who come to a company with the clear objective of being able to fill the position that has become vacant or that is now offered because it needs to be filled .
In this sense, after various studies and analyzes carried out by specialized entities, the characteristics that it is considered that the perfect candidate should currently have have been determined:
- Age between 25 and 35 years.
- Be in possession of a university degree.
- Have degrees that prove your knowledge of languages, especially English.
- Have experience in the sector and in the position you are applying for.
- It is essential that you have computer skills.
- Have total and absolute availability to travel.
Broadly speaking, these seem to be the qualities that companies value most when hiring a candidate. However, other aspects such as communication skills, initiative , professionalism, responsibility , social skills and total ability to work as a team will also be taken into account.
In politics, a candidate is someone who appears in an election process to be voted for.
The concept in politics
Although the term can be used in any context, its most common use is within the framework of an election process . When the Constitution states that the representatives of the people must be elected (president, senators, deputies, governor, etc.), the subjects who intend to be chosen present themselves as candidates and spread their political programs.
There are many qualities that every candidate to occupy an important political position must have, especially that of the presidency of a country. However, experts in the field agree in emphasizing that he must inevitably be someone who is respectful, a good communicator, a born leader, a conciliator, with a notable capacity for empathy, tolerant, sincere, with a sense of justice and with the ability to control his impulses and their emotions.
How to define who will be a candidate
There are several ways to define a candidacy. In representative democracies , access to office occurs through political parties . Candidates, therefore, must first be chosen by their party and only then can they run in open elections.
The election of the candidate by his own party, on the other hand, can be carried out directly by some mechanism of the organization or through internal elections (with the participation of members or the population in general).