Sentences with phrase «at my first job who»

I had a boss at my first job who would do all kinds of cruel things — belittling junior staff members in front of the whole team, humiliating new staff to bolster her tough - image.

Not exact matches

A National Association of Colleges and Employers survey found that unpaid interns were no better at landing job offers than those who did no internship; and unpaid interns were paid an average $ 1,366 less in their first job than students who started cold.

Einat Adar is a marketing professional who got her first job at an internet company in 1999.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

With his boss's blessing, Cerilli quit his job at First Round, brought Matt Doumar — who had built SinglePlatform's entire product team — on board as a cofounder, and got started on a company that would eventually become known as Good Uncle.

For Niceta Lloyd, who goes by «Rickie,» the job has the added challenge of collaborating with a first lady who is not yet living at the White House full time.

But many of the people who had been at Rent the Runway for years weren't capable of moving it forward, she felt, because Rent the Runway had been their first job.

At the University of Texas» McCombs School of Business, the percentage of students who took jobs in the technology and finance fields was «neck - to - neck» this year for the first time, said Velma Arney, McComb's director of BBA career services, with 12 % of students heading into technology and 13 % going into banking.

Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, who was one of the first professionals to use the word, defines it as «the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.»

They attribute the sticker shock to two factors: first, there is a proliferation of Web - design freelancers and moonlighters who offer their services at bargain prices on job exchanges like eLance.com; second, some huge companies have run ad campaigns claiming they can build a legit Web presence for a low starting cost.

Mark Isakowitz, Portman's chief of staff, who worked closely with Porter when both were at the senator's office, said Porter's message from when he first decided to work for Trump has been» «I want to serve the president, I want to serve the country, I know what the job requires.»»

Wing's first leader was famed MIT robotics scientist Nick Roy, who worked there during a two - year sabbatical and then went back to his tenured job at MIT.

Also stymied by the American immigration system — which meets only a fraction of the demand for economic green cards each year — was South African Jonathan Hitchcock, 34, who was at first disheartened that his «dream job» would be shunted to Canada.

You've probably known salespeople who are absolutely outstanding at their jobs, consistently exceeding sales goals and ranking first every year.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

The novel's protagonist, Jeffrey Lockhart, is a thirty - four - year - old New Yorker who has been drifting through life, from one vague and interchangeable job («cross-stream pricing consultant,» «implementation analyst,» «systems administrator at a networking site») and relationship («She lived on First Avenue and First Street and I didn't know whether her name was spelled Gale or Gail») to the next.

This is carried out by Elihu, a younger man who first vents his exasperation at the three friends for failing to properly answer Job, and then condemns Job for justifying himself instead of God.

First, it leaves no place for those Americans who, as Henry Olsen describes, just want to work hard at their jobs, raise their families, and retire with a modicum of security and dignity.

The fact that when somebody gets sick or dies or has a baby or loses their job, it's the church ladies who are the first to show up at the front door with a casserole and a hug

You're talking to a girl who would have a personal pan pizza after school most days of the week, whose favorite lunchable was the mini pizza's, and whose first job was at Luigi's, the local pizza parlor.

She secured her first restaurant job at age 14 and worked for Bill Benson, who operated a farm - to - table restaurant with his wife.

In his first coaching job at any level, Jeff Mullins, who is beginning his third year in Charlotte, has done for the 49ers» program what he did for an ailing Chevrolet dealership in Cary, N.C. — turned it around.

He was content to stay at Eastern Illinois for 25 years like his predecessor, Bob Spoo, who gave Babers his first full - time job as a running backs coach in 1987.

George Graham came to my mind yesterday.I don't think of the THIEVING B • • • ARD too often because I despise him for what he did.Stole money.Got found out.Gave it back.Got sacked.It seemed he was beginning to lose his way a bit and it was not to be too long before before he either walked or he was pushed.But the memory of him coming to us as a manager (from his first job at Millwall) when the majority of fans wanted Venebles (despite his obvious Spud past) was of a keen enthusiastic young manager who wanted the opportunity to manage this club.What happened over the following years would have earned him his own Bronze Statue if he had not got caught with his hands in the clubs till.But what an impact he made.

This time the manager is already aware that the player who was thought to be about to get the job, Per Mertesacker, is going to miss at least the first few months of the new season and knowing the way our players» problems often seem to take a lot longer than first expected to fix, it could be more.

Experienced and a proven winner at club level, Arsenal could certainly do worse than taking a fairly safe bet on former Chelsea and Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti, who is 9/4 for the job, and who won the double in his first season the last time he took up a job in England.

Just ask Mark Stoops at Kentucky, who nailed the first year or two on the job but is just 12 - 24 after three years.

Hamilton, who left his job with the Browns to «win a championship at Michigan», says the first time saw Speight was when he was in high school and a lacrosse player:

Weatherly, who met the first Aussie to win at Augusta through the golfer's friendship with surfing legend Kelly Slater, said he cadged the gig a while back when Scott asked him if were interested in the temporary job.

The first hint of David Moyes not being up to the job came in the summer transfer window, but the amateurish transfer dealings were largely pinned on new chief executive Ed Woodward.Perhaps rightly so, but the club's form on the pitch hints that the hesitancy behind the scenes displays a manager who was either over confident in the summer, or simply lost at a club too big for him.

As I mentionned above that ive just watched all the Arsenal game 2007 and 2008, Ive personnaly gave up with this idea of strngthenin our defence.Its obvious, we need CDM, and I strongly recommend Toure for that job, but finally, I found out our main PBM: AW is a man who beleives in: THE BEST DEFENCE IS ATTACKIN.He has built the team that way.When I watched our 2007 games, i could see that most of these teams who has defeated us this season played exactly the same style of game last season but they couldnt perform so much as our attackin side were so strong for them so that they were always held at their own defensive side.The game is completely Psycological.At the 1st 10mn of the game, they try to attack @their best, but just when we start attackin then all their mdlfldr start to pull back coz most of our attack are all dangerous.And this is what makes the diffrence between the so called BIG 4 and the rest of the league.The Pbm isnt really that our defence is so weak, It is our attack which is WEAK.Durin the first half of this season, Our guys couldnt perform any attackin strategy planned by AW, coz 1st: they were new to it, coz they have only practiced it durin trainin session.2 nd: Some of the key players are gone.3 rd: Even AW did nt know where exactly is the best position for those new players, the likes of Nasri, Vela, and some of them were all subsitute last year.Plus they are all young players who can improve and change their style game after game.

SNA membership was important to Sarah, who had come to know the association through the district - owned membership at her first job.

He told them that diasporans need to stop whining and shared his own experiences as a returnee who left a well - paying job as vice-president at Coca - Cola Africa to join the first New Patriotic Party (NPP) government formed in 2009.

Mr Javid made the bombshell admission at a hearing of the Home Affairs Select Committee - his first since taking over the job from Amber Rudd, who was forced to quit after misleading MPs about deportation targets.

He made the comments in his first appearance at the Home Affairs Select Committee after taking over the job from Amber Rudd, who quit after giving MPs false information about deportation targets.

Spies said Kelly, who The Post revealed has been offered a top job at J.P. Morgan, arrived first for dinner with former NYSE chairman Richard Grasso and their wives.

James, who became the first woman of color to hold citywide office four years ago, has sued the city at least 11 times and spearheaded the passage of a bill that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history in an effort to close the pay gap between women and men.

The two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for the First Congressional District seat in a primary argued over who has better job creation ideas during a debate held by the Southold Democratic Club Tuesday night at Southold High School.

The first Bronx H.I.R.E. job fair at Hutchinson Metro Center Wednesday night went off without a hitch, drawing more than 400 Bronxites in search of employment among the Bronx - based businesses who were interviewing and hiring at the event.

During his first two years at SU, Paladino drove home every Friday — accepting passengers who paid for gas and tolls — for a job preparing newspapers for shipping on the docks of the Buffalo Courier - Express, the morning paper that has since closed.

O'Shea, who «will become the first woman to head the» institute, «says she agreed to take the top job at HHMI because of «a tremendous opportunity to have a lasting, positive impact on science.»

His first teaching job was at Whitfield School, a small private school in St. Louis, Missouri, as a long - term substitute for a ninth - grade biology teacher who was on maternity leave.

Official needs estimates should study the present relationship between applicants and jobs — we don't need more calls for «more scientists» from policymakers who haven't first looked hard at the balance between supply and demand.

But John Knauss, a former URI dean who was then head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, recruited him to beef up NOAA's ocean service, and Evans held a series of increasingly responsible jobs at the agency before moving to the Smithsonian in 2002 to become its first head of science.

When looking for a job, you probably won't find your «Golden Contact» — the key person who gives you all the right information at just the right moment — until you first go through a depressing number of threads in your network that end up leading nowhere.

If you're a medic who has completed junior training and a career in clinical research appeals to you more than general medicine, a useful first step would be to apply for clinical research jobs in a phase 1 trial at a research hospital.

Tricia Prickett, while at the University of Toledo in Ohio, found that untrained observers who watched a video of the first 20 to 30 seconds of a job interview were astonishingly accurate at predicting whether the applicant would be offered the job.

candidates» who work for their degree at Corus «get their first job with us,» says Tony Jones, Eng.D.

Meanwhile, in 1976, a young Ph.D. named Edward J. Weiler landed his first job, as a researcher for Lyman Spitzer, who was chairman of the astronomy department at Princeton.

And it's like the first boy who told me we should just be friends out on the blacktop at recess, the girls who put their lunch boxes on the cafeteria benches so I couldn't sit down, the F in red ink on my spelling test, the words «I want a girl to spend my life with and you're just not her,» the music teacher who mocked me for getting too nervous to sing the right notes, the nasty comment from a stranger, and the job interviewer who doesn't even pretend to be interested all over again.