Sentences with phrase «at his last job at»

While your at it, why don't elect Jon Corzine as treasurer, he only lost $ 1.6 million at his last job at MF Global Not to mention what he did to New Jersey.

Not exact matches

(Conlee has since worked with RIM in an advisory capacity at various times, including last summer when the company announced 2,000 job cuts.)

This was the first glimpse of the job market since the release last Friday of a disappointing employment report that showed U.S. job creation coming in at 74,000, far less than the 200,000 that had been expected.

There has been a fairly sustained increase in job creation over at least the last five months, Desjardins said, and the level of initial jobless claims has been decreasing.

Last year, Lee said, the city experienced a 30 % annual growth in technology jobs, which now number some 32,000 positions at 1,600 tech or start - up companies.

In his 14 years at one of the country's largest shopping center operators, Flynn has rocketed through the ranks, holding both the COO and CIO jobs before landing in the corner office last January.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Late last year, she accepted a job as a senior consultant on ocean governance for World Wildlife Fund Canada, which provides her with new mentors, new skills and the chance to go home at the end of the day.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

We teach transferable skills like conflict resolution that will last beyond this job at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

But the Ohio native, who took the top job at Google Canada last May after several years overseeing Google's local and government sales at its Chicago office, brings his own extra method to the company's madness.

The host refused to go to work starting last Wednesday after being blindsided by the news that her cohost Michael Strahan would be leaving the daytime show for a full - time job at «Good Morning America.»

or «which co-worker at your last job did you not get along with well and how did you handle that situation?»

Many people would consider my last position at Microsoft a dream job.

But too much of that is due to people dropping out of the workforce altogether (because the job market is * that * good): now at 63.2 %, the labour force participation rate has been catapulted all the way back to that which last prevailed in 1978.

Or as newly unemployed AI expert Andrew Ng, who quit his job at Baidu last week, told her: «I think it's fascinating that in a rather short period of time he's inserted himself into the conversation on A.I. I think he sees accurately that A.I. is going to create tremendous amounts of value.»

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

The nation added 217,000 jobs in May to reach the milestone, though the unemployment rate remained unchanged last month at 6.3 % and U.S. employment still needs to catch up with the growth of the population and labor force that has occurred since the recession began.

Doing so is thought to mitigate pay inequality: If a woman was underpaid at her last job, her pay at her next job should not be based off the previous figure.

Gilles Labbe, the former head of aerospace cluster Aero Montreal and CEO of F - 35 supplier Heroux - Devtek (TSX: HRX), last year warned that thousands of jobs would be at risk if lead manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman remove work destined to be completed in Canada by members of the global supply chain.

Panoramic Resources and Mincor Resources have announced plans to put their last operating mines on care and maintenance in response to the depressed nickel market, with Panoramic cutting 50 jobs today with more to follow at both companies.

Our résumé - based model of evaluating job candidates assumes that what you'll be doing in your next job is at least broadly similar to what you did in your last one.

Microsoft, which launched the YouthSpark initiative at last year's CGI to create jobs, education and entrepreneurship opportunities for 300 million young people by 2015, returned with a private dinner for young participants and nonprofit partners to discuss the progress so far.

People hear about how great Slack is — from friends who have it in their offices, or from co-workers who used it at their last job, or from people they follow on Twitter — try the free version inside their teams, then get so hooked on it, the corporate IT buyer is obliged to pay up or risk mutiny.

This of course contrasts with the Labor Department's news yesterday that U.S. employers — of all sizes — added 120,000 jobs last month, and as a result the unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent, after a prolonged period at 9 percent.

U.S. jobs data lit the fire at the end of last week, with higher - than - expected wage increases prompting inflationary concerns.

One lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proposal is still under discussion, said he believed that U.S. - sourced proposal would have to be at least 35 % to satisfy Trump, who railed against automakers for moving jobs to Mexico throughout his election campaign last year.

After four weeks he said, «You know, the people at my last job said I didn't listen, and these people say I don't listen and my wife of 38 years said I don't listen.»

The last thing anyone wants to hear at work is someone complaining about how much they hate their job.

A University of Phoenix School of Business survey released last month revealed that Americans in general are work - oriented, with 89 percent of us saying that at least some of our self - worth comes from our job or career.

As Kit Yarrow, chair of the psychology department at Golden Gate University told me last fall, consumers have much to feel anxious about, whether the job market, personal economics, or politics.

Upon hearing of Goodyear's plan to sell the plant, which would put more than 1,000 people out of a job at a time when France is suffering a 10.9 percent unemployment rate, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg himself attempted to find a buyer for the plant last year.

According to the findings, 2 in 5 workers believe they have put on the pounds at their current job, on par with last year.

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

«Job cuts have already surpassed last year's total and are on track to end the year as the highest annual total since 2009, when nearly 1.3 million layoffs were announced at the tail - end of the recession,» said John A. Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

At my very last job I recognized that I needed to quit when my desires to become an entrepreneur overpowered my wishes for a stable paycheck.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

But here's the thing: Like them, you probably didn't launch a business to make less money than you did at your last job.

Last year they were offered jobs at a poultry plant.

What you studied in school and even what you did at your last job are becoming less important in the job market.

As Liz Ryan, founder and CEO of consulting firm The Human Workplace, writes in a post on LinkedIn, «How are you ever going to increase your earnings if every time you change jobs, you get a tiny raise over what they paid you at the last place?»

Stuart Belkin, CEO of the family firm Belkorp Industries and chair of Rogers Sugar, a Belkorp holding, found himself parachuted into a clean - up job at the University of British Columbia last winter.

Since his departure, at least 10 other engineers and four top managers — including Chris Lattner, who had been selected as Anderson's replacement and lasted just six months on the job — have also left.

Over the last few years, many people have been alarmed at the job - destroying implications of automation.

Good thing, because four out of five seekers say they would probably not consider other job openings at a company that failed to notify them of their application status the last time.

It is unclear what special projects Deneve will be overseeing at Apple, which is still looking for someone to head its retail operations following the ouster of John Browett last year after less than a year on the job.

The morning after the last day at job, we woke up with the most wonderful feeling — the feeling of being the founders.

She made clear at the committee's hearing last week that she's prepared to support the Fed's extraordinary efforts to bolster the economy until there are clear signs of a sustained rebound and further improvement in the job market.

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.