Sentences with phrase «few jobs held»

The skills and attributes developed for the last few jobs held should be highlighted to show why you are suitable for the job.

Not exact matches

PHILIPPINES: A few thousand left - wing activists and laborers marched and held noisy rallies to press for higher wages and an end to temporary contractual jobs that deprive workers of many benefits.

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.

That, for example, is why few folks are willing to criticize their colleagues or former companies: 1 today's former co-worker or former manager is tomorrow's angel investor or job reference, and memories are long and reputations longer.2 That holds particularly true for venture capitalists: as Marc Andreessen told Barry Ritholtz on a recent podcast, «We make our money on the [startups] that work and we make our reputation on the ones that don't.»

A few years ago, when social media and social selling came out (sales 2.0 they called it), there was an almost euphoric sense that spread among the sales community because everyone suddenly hoped (and, some still hold out the hope), that the worse part of their job was now a thing of the past — cold calling.

I wish words wouldn't escape you so often; you do such an outstanding job of displaying the arrogant stupidity of your faith when you you can hold on to a few and put them to your usual use.

Richard J. Barnet and Ronald Muller, Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), p. 184, give specific content to Dom Helder Camara's words: «Global companies have used their great levers of power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer jobs.

In 1979, nearly 20 million workers were employed in manufacturing jobs, but by 2007 fewer than 14 million held jobs in this sector, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Brady will turn 41 in August — an age that only a few have ever reached while holding a job as a starting quarterback.

Up until now I was holding baby throughout most of the day as she doesn't sleep in her cot and for the first time, this jumper has been allowing me to actually have my arms free to get a few small jobs done at home!

The things she does for a client are cook big meals (including some to freeze), cleaning bathrooms and kitchens and floors, doing laundry, addressing birth announcements, helping with simple breastfeeding problems (like positioning problems) and helping you decide if it's serious enough to call the lactation consultant about or if you can wait for the breastfeeding support group in a few days, holding the baby while you nap or take a shower, playing with older children, fielding phone calls from family and friends, helping look up odd things in the baby book, dialing the pediatrician, and telling you you're doing a great job.

We understand that Weiner has never held a job outside of politics, and that he seems to have few marketable private - sector skills (apart from lobbying — for which, come to think of it, he seems quite well - suited).

A few minutes earlier Peter Kilfoyle says Purnell has never held a proper job!

The department has 6,000 fewer officers than it did in 2001, and than it did when Police Commissioner William Bratton first held the job in the 1990s.

Regardless of the raw numbers, during my 16 years in human resources running and attending job fairs, that pattern has held constant: Fewer than 10 % of those scientists attending a job fair receive job offers.

When he retires from his eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in a few months he will succeed Alan Leshner, a neuroscientist, who has held the AAAS job since 2001.

It's a unique field in that a large proportion of graduates end up in faculty posts — the jobs graduate school prepares them for — and yet its low postdoc numbers suggest that most graduates are placed in real jobs soon after receiving their Ph.D. s; few mathematicians, it seems, get stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.

BRUSSELS — She had been on the job for barely a few hours, but during a 1 - hour chat with a dozen reporters yesterday the woman who will hold Europe's top science policy job for the next 5 years oozed self - confidence and a can - do attitude.

Once you have a job, you'll probably want to hold onto it tight, so this year might be one of the few opportunities you get to test the waters without putting a salary or position on the line.

Not completely ready to commit to the counseling psychology track yet, I held a few part - time jobs — at one point in time, I was simultaneously a receptionist at a law firm, a behavior specialist working with children in the foster care system, and a volunteer at a mediation center.

I've held seven office jobs over the course of my career, and I've always found that it works well to dress on the conservative / quiet side for the first few weeks on a new job while performing Dress Code Reconnaissance.

Writer - director Paul Leyden does a decent job holding our interest as well as providing a few intriguing twists and reveals.

In Siegel's 1973 classic, Walter Matthau subsidises his daytime job as a crop - dusting pilot in New Mexico by robbing small banks, only to discover that a bank he robs for a few thousand bucks is holding several hundred thousand mafia dollars ready for laundering across the Rio Grande.

In 2011, she was appointed assistant principal at a school in New Orleans, a job she held for two years, before arriving as «principal in residence» at NOCP a few months before Sylvanie Williams» then - principal departed.

Students graduating in the next few years may freelance and never hold a long - term regular shift job.

For example, African American children born in poverty who participated in early childhood education programs had higher graduation rates, higher adult earnings, and fewer arrests than their peers.102 A similar study found that students who participated in early intervention programs maintained higher high school GPAs, were two times more likely to have attended a four - year college, and were more likely to hold a job than their peers.103 Furthermore, research finds that participation in state - funded preschool programs improves children's language, literacy, and mathematical skills.104

Finding that I had to order some more parts, the job was on hold for a few days.

She held a few unusual teaching jobs and then decided to mix her academic expertise with her love of writing by pursuing a career in educational publishing.

Here are just a few of the different careers Americans now hold, along with the number of people who are employed in these jobs: • Teachers: 7.2 million • Registered Nurses: 2.8 million • Janitors and Building Cleaners: 2.1 million • Gaming Services Workers: 111,000 • Tax Preparers: 105,000 • Service Station Attendants: 87,000

Consolidation may be a benefit to rolling over into an IRA, especially if you've held a few jobs with a few different retirement plans.

My numbers for 2014 and 2015 are starkly different since I was employed full - time at a single job for most of 2014, and spent most of 2015 freelancing for a number of different clients in addition to holding a few temporary full - time gigs, so any inconsistencies should be very obvious... but I don't know how these things are processed so maybe I'm assuming too much.

I have been planning to touch base with you of what's happening but with my job hunting and real life, I seriously had to put this thing on hold for a few moments.

We're trying to keep things moving, while scrambling to improve lots of infrastructure and strategy problems, and still hold on to the dregs of my day job for a few more weeks.

Few jobs on the international stage are more daunting than the one held by Christiana Figueres, the woman in charge of United Nations talks aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

I personally think that the practice leader's job description should be evolutionary such that you begin by identifying a few «mission critical» tasks that you will absolutely hold people accountable for achieving and then slowly progress to adding more responsibilities.

Almost a year after graduation in 2011, only 55 percent of law school grads held full - time, long - term positions requiring a legal degree and bar passage; fewer than half of graduates found jobs in private practice (good - bye marbled lobbies and fancy associate titles!).

The author of a Canadian study on the mid-life career change of lawyers (as well as a few other professional groups) found that «even though there was a general sense of enjoyment and fulfillment in the jobs that the participants held, and many of these people felt that they had found their place in the occupational world, those sentiments were not sufficiently strong to keep them there.»

Many new fields are so specialized that there are few people who hold jobs in them.

These questions are important to consider because the last thing you want to do is start a job you're not really into, only to leave a few weeks later for the job you should have held out for.

Your potential employer is really only curious about a few things... your job history, name, current position held and education.

Most clients I work with have shared numerous worries they thought would hold them back, like their age, too little or too much salary, the economy, a shrinking industry, too many jobs in the last 10 years, and being fired or laid off (just to name a few).

Many candidates go in to a group interview, but very few may come out holding that job offer.

Educational Requirements: Candidates who wish to apply for the job can be eligible fo the position if they hold a high school diploma, while most employers prefer high school graduates, a few may look for college graduates or a candidate who has an associate degree.

Few people talk about climbing the corporate ladder and holding out for more money; instead, common wisdom has focused more on lateral moves to secure companies, accepting smaller salaries and racing to snap up job offers before someone else does.

Consistent with the other reports, the primary explanation for the discrepancy may be the fact that very few women hold the higher paying job titles sales director, VP, or manager.

If you have held the same position at a few different places, consider a functional resume to highlight the skills of those jobs and list your employment history below that.

You've held quite a few interesting jobs over the course of your career, and you're eager to share all of them with a potential boss.

No matter what industry you're in or what level of position you currently hold, there are a few basic job interview questions that any job seeker should be prepared to answer.

The most recently held position should contain the most bullet points, while the older job positions should contain only a few key summary bullet points.