Sentences with phrase «graduate school job»

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In her speech to graduates, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg spoke about her travails finding a job after graduating Harvard Business School and moving to Silicon Valley in 2001.

His father Fred never graduated from high school and held a series of blue - collar jobs including truck driver, factory worker and cab driver.

As the economic environment continues to soften, many young professionals are contemplating returning to graduate school so they can «take shelter» during the downturn and be set to reenter the workforce as the job market turns around a couple of years from now.

With a newly achieved MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a well - paying consulting job waiting for her in Toronto, Angela Strange decided to do something risky instead.

After some training courses, high school graduates can work as oil and gas well drillers or servicers — supervisors typically work their way up through the various drilling crew jobs.

The school boasts a 90 percent job - placement rate for graduates.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

That's what happened to Mark Tacchi, who dropped out of graduate school in 1993 to take a job at NeXT, the computer company Jobs founded after being forced out of Apple.

High school graduates can work as on - shore oil and gas well drillers or well servicers once they complete three to months of formal on - the - job training.

When evaluating job applicants who graduated from a «top five» school, companies «attributed superior cognitive, cultural, and moral qualities to candidates who had been admitted to such an institution, regardless of their actual performance» after they were actually hired.

Was part of the reason why you wanted this job to travel more or less, take advantage of benefits like paid graduate school, or even to try a new hobby?

My oldest daughter is a junior in high school, and it is staggering how much the cost of higher education has escalated since I finished school a decade ago — to say nothing of the job market my daughter expects to see when she graduates.

At Bentley University, this summer marks the school's first Job Boot Camp for graduates, a four - day intensive workshop held a few weeks after graduation aimed at making sure students land jobs.

After graduating from a technical school in 1999 with a two - year degree in computer programming, Frind got a job with an online shopping mall.

(Poets & Quants)-- When they graduated from the Harvard Business School, they took jobs that paid less than $ 4,000 a year.

The school's defense is expected to argue that Alaburda wasn't adversely affected since she had been offered, and rejected, a full - time job at a law firm with a $ 60,000 salary shortly after graduating.

In 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm founded in 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIA.

As a college graduate schooled in accounting, working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was not my idea of a job, much less a career.

My last year at business school I got a job at Intrawest Resorts, and I flew out to Los Angeles as soon as I graduated.

The study, which followed 10,000 Wisconsin residents who had graduated from high school in 1957, sought to explore how job demands, deadlines, job control, and decision making affected workers as a way of predicting early death.

I will be continuing to graduate school for my masters in the fall, so I am still expecting to have bills for school for the next 2 - 3 years (although potentially reimbursed by my job).

She'll have to quit her well - paid job at a respectable company and tell her parents that although she studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3 years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems.

She started blogging because she was having trouble finding a job after graduate school — a job that would help pay off those loans.

For new graduates and others with minimal job experience, be sure to complete the school and unpaid experience section.

His first job after graduating from Harvard Law School was as a bankruptcy attorney in New York.

From executive search at the Caldwell Partners to leading a product team at job board giant Monster.com, to delivering career and outplacement services (both individually and corporately sponsored) since 2002 and more recently, acting as Director of Graduate Career Services at UBC Sauder School of Business which entailed engaging with hundreds of companies.

You are responsible for repaying your student loans even if you do not graduate, have trouble finding a job after graduation, or just didn't like your school.

But the growth treadmill in India is daunting — roughly 12 million new jobs must be created each and every year to absorb the Indian youth graduating from schools and the surplus agricultural labour freed up as India modernizes and urbanizes.

Some of these new, lower - paying jobs are being taken by people just entering the labor force, like recent high school and college graduates.

I wasn't going to stay in school for another year, graduate, and then cross my fingers and hope to get offered a similar job again.

Puerto Rican high school and college graduates have been leaving the island at high rates since the recession began, looking for better paying jobs in the United States.

Alternatively, military service can enable you to get a free college degree, have a job lined up when you graduate, and make money while you go to school.

Later, toward the end of college, when all my friends were getting exciting jobs and internships or were accepted to prestigious graduate schools, I would lock myself in my dorm room and seethe.

After going back to graduate school for two years when our first was a newborn, my husband can't find a job in this economy.

I graduated from a prestigious engineering school in France, landing a job as a computer scientist.

I got a new job as a children's therapist intern and finishing up graduate school so that I am hopeful I will be able to pull us out of poverty within the next year or two, and into a livable range.

After graduate school at Princeton, DuBois talked his way onto Obama's staff at the U.S. Senate, repeatedly driving to Washington to make his case after job applications were rejected.

He stayed in Massachusetts after graduate school and got a job.

I studied math, physics, and engineering in college, graduated from a respected engineering school, and landed a job as a computer scientist in finance.

Many ambitious students complete graduate school and find themselves stuck in heaps of debt with few job prospects.

When I was in graduate school I had a part - time job teaching kids who were of normal intelligence, but were cognitively impaired in various interesting ways.

Ron Haskins of the Economic Mobility Project puts it this way: «If young people do three things — graduate from high school, get a job, and get married and wait until they're 21 before having a baby — they have an almost 75 percent chance of making it into the middle class.»

The claims of jobs (and graduate school) versus their hunger for more time alone together, were often considered by the group.

Whereas prior to World War II liberal arts colleges provided the model for higher education, and universities were liberal arts colleges with graduate and professional schools attached to them, now the heart of higher education became preparation for a job.

A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, Dale quit his job as a securities lawyer in Tallahassee after the «Holy Spirit fell upon him like a ton of bricks» to help out at the Good News Ministries.

Thus, Catholic educational administrators take who they can get: (a) graduates who are unable to get better - paying jobs in industry or at public high schools, or (b) spouses of individuals who are the primary breadwinners of their families.

Whether you're finishing college or graduate school, getting married, changing jobs or simply changing homes, moves are a part of life.

In a span of 10 days in the early 1970s, Ricker graduated from Purdue University, married his wife, Nancy, who was his high school sweetheart, accepted a job with Shell Oil and moved to the Quad Cities.

I'm just graduating school and starting my first job (in this career field), so to be able to cook quick, easy and healthy pasta would be so appreciated!

I'm almost done with graduate school, and after we move I'll get to start my job as a speech - language pathologist working with kids of all ages (and of course, blogging in the evenings and on weekends).