Matching approaches

Staff examine a specific reason for offering contact. They can compare a question with relevant experience, an object with another person's association, a practical need with offered skill, two expressed positions. Software can help locate candidates while reviewers inspect the actual material and permission.

The approach depends on the intended activity. Similarity concerns shared material. Complementarity concerns a contribution to unfinished inquiry. Contradiction concerns useful disagreement. A shared object, common influence, missing perspective, convergence, relay, unexpected association provide further logics. Cross-setting differences can also suggest an overlooked relation.

Staff preserve several specific interests or questions rather than relying only on a whole-person average. A narrow unusual connection can justify an offer even when broad similarity is low. Apparent absences require an opportunity account before interpretation.

The proposed reason, actual invitation, acceptance or refusal, activity, participant judgment, later consequence remain separately recorded. Comparison investigates the value of different approaches. Casting develops the setting and action around a candidate relation.